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44 J enn X Cameron
MacDonald with the legend beneath the three :
' How happy could I be with either
Were t'other dear charmer away.'
Bishop Forbes mentions her in The Lyon in Mourning as being, on the
authority of .ffineas MacDonald, brother of Kinlochmoidart, at the raising
of Prince Charlie's standard at Glenfinnan. He calls her ' the famous Miss
Jeanie Cameron (as she is commonly though very improperly called, for she
is a widow nearer 50 than 40 years of age). . . . She was so far from
accompanying the Prince's army that she went off with the rest of the
spectators, as soon as the army marched, neither did she ever follow the
camp nor was ever with the Prince but in public when he had his court in
Edinburgh.' The printed Lives I discard just now except that they sometimes
mention that she was of the Glendesseray family. The details they
give of her career are unworthy of belief. The rumour was, however, that
she followed the Jacobite army, and fought both at Prestonpans and
Culloden. The latter is impossible, as we know l that she was captured
by the Hanoverian troops near Stirling early in February, 1746. She, called
* Ye Lady,' was brought thence and put in ward in the castle of Edinburgh
until November, and then 'upon her petition to the governor setting forth her
bad state of health,' she was admitted to bail upon 1 5th November. The
next certain information we have of her hitherto was from the '
intelligence
sent to Col: Napier from Scotland about seven casks of money for the
Rebels' 2
[circa March, 1749]. There we find 'that one Samuel Cameron
(brother to the above-mentioned Cameron of Gleneavis), major in the
regiment which was Lochiel's in the French service, was at Edinburgh,
and came in a chaise with the famous Mrs. Jean Cameron to Stirling,
where they parted, and she came to her house in Morvern about the middle
of March, and he took some different route. It is supposed that he came
over on a message with regard to that money. . . .'
I have been able to identify to what family
this ' famous Mrs. Jean
Cameron '
I have kindly been permitted to examine the Manu-
belonged.
scripts of Lord Justice Clerk Erskine (Tinwald), 3
among whose papers are
'
'
many pieces of intelligence from the Highlands relating to the Jacobite
'
* '
Rebels.' One headed Intelligence Dr. Cameron is undated, but runs,
4 r
That Doctor Cameron broy to the late Locheil attainted, and one
Cameron, who in the year 1745 deserted from Captain Campbell of
Inverawe his company, now ane officer in the french service, were about
the midle of 7 f re
last in Mrs. Jean Cameron, sister to Glendesery her
house in Morvern, and from thence they went to Lawdale in that country,
and by appointment met there with Alex: M'Lachlane aid de camp to
the young Pretender in time of the late unnatural rebellion. Where the
said Doctor told M'Lachlane that he, the Doctor, had not seen the person
called by that party Prince Charles for four years past till harvast last.
That the said Prince told the Doctor, then [and this is interesting also]
that he had been in England and thrice at London within the preceding
1 Scots Magazine.
2 A. Lang's Companions ofPickle, p. 138.
3 The Erskine Murray Papers.