Daniel Szechi - Britains Lost Revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701-8

Britains lost revolution?

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Britains lost revolution?

Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 17018

DANIEL SZECHI

Manchester
University Press

Copyright Daniel Szechi 2015

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Contents

One of the pleasures of researching and writing a major book is encountering the interesting work and bright ideas of kindred spirits. This book has benefited hugely from the work of others. In fact, it is fair to say it would not have been possible to write it on the kind of time-scale demanded by the procrustean bed of government research assessments without the great outpouring of scholarship in Jacobite studies and early eighteenth-century history over the last thirty years. But in terms of individuals, first and foremost I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Professor Edward Corp, until recently of the University of Toulouse (and now happily retired). Not only did his excellent scholarship provide a solid platform for my own efforts, he took time away from his new grand-daughter selflessly to read my chapters in draft, made invaluable suggestions and pointed out where my schoolboy French had led me astray when I was translating passages from French into English. This was kindness and scholarly solidarity indeed. I am also grateful to Dr Frances J. Shaw of the National Records of Scotland for seeking me out to bring one of her discoveries GD 24/1/872/1/3: the memoirs of the Morays of Abercairny to my attention. This is a major new source for the history of Jacobitism in Scotland and all historians of Jacobitism are in her debt. Dr Graham Townend likewise stepped out of his way to remind me of the Historical Manuscripts Commission volume of the papers supplied to the House of Lords investigation of the British governments conduct during the attempted invasion of Scotland, and generously sent me photographs of the Firth of Forth taken from the very hill where eyewitnesses in the Dalhousie papers watched the clash between the French squadron and the Royal Navy on 13 March 1708. In the same vein, Laurence Pope, former US Ambassador to France, biographer of his fellow diplomat Franois de Callires and future biographer of Colonel Nathaniel Hooke, generously pointed me in the direction of the Huxelles newsletters held at the John Rylands University Library, Manchester. My thanks are also due to Dr Louise Viena Katainen, an old friend from my days at Auburn University in Alabama, who translated crucial letters in Italian between Queen Mary of Modena and Cardinal Filippo Antonio Gualterio, which I could not otherwise have used, Aaron Graham of Somerville College, Oxford, who kindly sent me several references from the Huntington Library relating to the embarkation of British troops in Flanders, Andrew Little, for suggesting some contemporary atlases and their maps might be useful, and Darren Layne, who selflessly and very efficiently knocked out the outline map of the east coast of Scotland to be found below. Dr John Young of Strathclyde University also well deserves my thanks for several conversations in which he steered me towards the likely political or ideological origins of the Scots Jacobites plans to reform the constitution of Scotland in the event of a Jacobite victory.