been left for gleaners in his track.

I must not forget to thank Mr. and Mrs. BARTELS for researches in old
magazines and journals. Mr. BARTELS also examined for me the printed
correspondence of Frederick the Great. To the kindness of J. A.
ERSKINE CUNNINGHAM, Esq., of Balgownie I owe permission to photograph
the portrait of Young Glengarry in his possession.

If I might make a suggestion to historical students of leisure, it is
this. The Life of the Old Chevalier (James III.) has never been
written, and is well worth writing. My own studies, alas! prove that
Prince Charles's character was incapable of enduring misfortune. His
father, less brilliant and less popular, was a very different man,
and, I think, has everything to gain from an unprejudiced examination
of his career. He has certainly nothing to lose.

Since this work was in type the whole of Bishop Forbes's MS., The
Lyon in Mourning, has been printed for an Historical Society in
Scotland. I was unable to consult the MS. for this book, but it
contains, I now find, no addition to the facts here set forth.

November 5, 1896.



CHAPTER I--INTRODUCTORY TO PICKLE



Subject of this book--The last rally of Jacobitism hitherto obscure--