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Lyon in the Mourning: A COLLECTION OF SPEECHES LETTERS JOURNALS ETC, RELATIVE TO THE AFFAIRS OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART BY THE REV, ROBERT FORBES, A. M. BISHOP OF ROSS AND CAITHNESS

Author Preface:

The Lyon in Mourning is a collection of Journals, Narratives, and Memoranda relating to the life of Prince Charles Edward Stuart at and subsequent to the Jacobite Rebellion of.
The formation of this collection was to a great extent the lifework of the Rev, Robert Forbes, M. A. , Bishop of Ross and Caithness,
He was the son of Charles Forbes, a schoolmaster in the parish of Rayne, Aberdeenshire, and of Marjory Wright, and was born there in, his baptism being recorded in the parochial register as having taken place onth May of that year.
He must have been a studious youth, as he was sent to Marischal College, Aberdeen, in or about, at the early age of fourteen, and graduated there as Master of Arts in.
He then proceeded to qualify himself for orders in the Scottish Episcopal Church, and coming to Edinburgh in June, he was there ordained priest by Bishop Freebairn.
In December of that year he became assistant to the Rev, William Law at Leith, and soon afterwards, at the request of the congregation, was appointed his colleague, At Leith, it may be said, he lived and laboured for the remainder of his life,
Like most of the Episcopalians of that day, he was an ardent Jacobite, indeed one of the most ardent, and but for a timely interposition of the 'hated Hanoverian' government would not improbably have shared the fate of some of his brethren whose end he chronicles.
In that case there would have been no Lyon in Mourning, and it is but fair to say that thoughxii The Lyon can never be considered, and does not pretend to be, an impartial relation of the events with which it deals, our literature of the Rebellion ofwould have been greatly the poorer by its absence.
Nay, it may even be said that, but for the continuous energy and singleeyed purpose of Bishop Forbes in this work, much of what is now known on this subject

would never have come to light.

On hearing of the advent of Prince Charles Edward in the West Highlands, Mr, Forbes, with two Episcopalian clergymen and some other gentlemen, started off with the intention of sharing his fortunes, but all were arrested on suspicion at St.
Ninians, near Stirling, and imprisoned, He notes the fact in the Baptismal Register of his congregation, as follows: 'A great interruption has happened by my misfortune of being taken prisoner at St.
Ninian's, in company with the Rev, Messrs. Thomas Drummond and John Willox, Mr, Stewart Carmichael and Mr. Robert Clark, and James Mackay and James Carmichael, servants, upon Saturday, the seventh day of September, and confined in Stirling Castle till Februaryth,, and in Edinburgh Castle till Mayth of said year.
We were seven in number, taken upon the seventh day of the week, the seventh day of the month, and the seventh month of the year, reckoning from March.
'An incident of the roping of these prisoners at their removal from Stirling to Edinburgh is narrated by the author.

After his release from imprisonment Mr, Forbes appears to have been invited to reside in the house of one of the most wealthy members of his congregation, Dame Magdalene Scott,xiii Lady Bruce of Kinross, the widow of Sir William Bruce of Kinross.
She resided in the Citadel of Leith, and was a strong Jacobite Mr, Forbes tells how her house was on more than one occasion the special object of the Government's concern, as the Prince himself was supposed to be concealed there.
For this lady Mr. Forbes cherished the highest esteem, speaking of her as 'the worthy person, the protection of whose roof I enjoy.
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