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.Meldrum s sermon preach d May 16 againsta toleration to those of the Episcopal perswasion.In a letter to a friend (1703).12 T.Clarke, Nurseries of Sedition?: The Episcopal Congregations after theRevolution of 1689 , in J.Porter (ed.), After Columba After Calvin, Communityand Identity in the Religious Traditions of North East Scotland (Aberdeen, 1999),p.63.13 ACA, Letters Books (Incoming), viii, no.196 (Warrant to incarcerate in theTolbooth some that disturbed and molested the established Church of Scotland,July 1714).14 Records of Old Aberdeen, A.M.Munro (ed.), vol.II (Aberdeen, 1909), p.115;Mystics of the North-East, G.D.Henderson (ed.) (Aberdeen, 1934), p.62; NationalArchives of Scotland [NAS], CH12/12/8 (Robert Dongworth, James Greenshieldsand Mr.James Gray, London, to Dr.George Middleton, 24 Jan 1712/13).15 Records of Old Aberdeen, pp.107 9; G.D.Henderson (ed.) Mystics of the North-East(Aberdeen, 1934), pp.61 5.16 James Gordon s Diary, p.54; T.Clarke, Scottish Episcopalians, 1689 1720 (Unpub-lished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989), p.48; NAS CH12/12/4; Thecase of Mr.Greenshields, as it was printed in London, with remarks upon the same;and copies of the original papers relating to that affair, as also a list of the lateEpiscopal ministers, who enjoy churches or legal benefices in Scotland (Edinburgh,1710).17 Historical Papers Relating to the Jacobite Period, 1699 1750, ed.J.Allardyce, 2 vols,(Aberdeen, 1896), II: pp.xliii xlvi, 585 96; C.A.McLaren, The College and theCommunity, 1660 1860 , in J.S.Smith (ed.), Old Aberdeen: Bishops, Burghers andBuildings (Aberdeen, 1991), p.61.18 William Meston, The Poetical Works of the Ingenious and Learned WilliamMeston, A.M.Sometime Professor of Philosophy in the Marischall College of Aberdeen.To Which is Prefixed the Author s Life (Aberdeen, 1802).19 ACA Press 18/8/32 34; NAS GD220/5/572 (Thomas Blackwell to the Duke ofMontrose, 24 June 1715); ACA Council Register, p.384; A Short Memorandum.20 NAS GD220/5/639/2 (Robert Stewart, Provost of Aberdeen to the Duke ofMontrose 23 February 1716); NAS GD220/5/647/2 (Thomas Blackwell to theDuke of Montrose, 24 February 1716).21 A.E.Smith, Register of S.Paul s Episcopal Chapel Aberdeen , Miscellany of theNew Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1906; ACA Council Register, p.385; The address ofthe episcopal clergy of the dioses of Aberden.22 E.K.Carmichael, Jacobitism in the Scottish Commission of the Peace,1707 1760 , SHR, 58 (1979), pp.58 69; ACA, Council Register, vol.58, p.303;ACA, Letters Books (Incoming), viii, no.118 (Magistrates of Aberdeen to thePrivy Council of Great Britain, 2 June 1708).23 ACA, Council Register, vol.58, p.53; ACA, Propinquity Books, vol.ii (1706 1730),pp.125, 127 9; ACA, Transcript of Propinquity Books, vol.i (1706 1722), pp.84 6.24 ACA, Letters Books (Incoming), viii, no.96 (Magistrates to John Allardes,20 June, 1702); ACA, Letters Books (Incoming), viii, no.252 (Magistrates toRobert Dundas, 3 March, 1718).D.Findlay and A.Murdoch, Revolution toReform , p.268.25 ACA, Propinquity Books, vol.ii (1706 1730), pp.127 9. 9780230_222571_05_cha03.pdf 10/21/09 2:27 PM Page 97Kieran German 9726 ACA, Council Register, vol.58, p.93; A Short Memorandum; Extracts from theRecords of the Burgh of Aberdeen, pp.335 7.27 Historical Papers Relating to the Jacobite Period, 1699 1750, ed.J.Allardyce, vol.I(Aberdeen, 1895), pp.28 9.28 Allardyce, Historical Papers, vol.II, p.xlvi; NAS GD 220/5/5712 & 3.29 Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Aberdeen, p.349.30 NAS GD220/5/571/1 (Duke of Montrose to Robert Stewart, 23 June 1715); ACA,Council Register, p.416.31 Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Aberdeen, p.349; A Short Memorandum ofquhat hath occurred in Aberdeen.32 NAS, CS96/597 (Journal of William Simson, merchant, Aberdeen).33 Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Aberdeen, pp.349, 350, 352; A ShortMemorandum of quhat hath occurred in Aberdeen.34 ACA, Council Register, p.419.35 Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Aberdeen, pp.352 3; A Short Memorandumof quhat hath occurred in Aberdeen; ACA, Council Register, p.190; D.Macniven, Merchants and Traders , ACA, Transcripts of the Propinquity Books, vol.I(1706 22).36 Historical Papers 1699 1750, vol.I, p.46.37 Historical Papers 1699 1750, vol.I, p.47.38 The Address of the Majestrates and Town Council of Aberdeen, to the Pretender withRemarks upon the said address (Edinburgh, 1716); The Address of the EpiscopalClergy.39 A List of the Scot s Noblemen and Gentlemen Prisoners, that are designed for England(Edinburgh, 1716); Deed of Foundation of S.Paul s, Aberdeen, 2nd August,1720 , reproduced in Miscellany of the New Spalding Club (Aberdeen, 1906), p.86.40 ACA, Transcripts of the Propinquity Books, vol.I (1706 22), p.521.41 AUL MS3320/2/12/9; Mystics of the North-East, pp.31, 131.42 ACA, Letters Books (Incoming), viii, no.252 (Magistrates to Robert Dundas,3 March 1718).43 Original Constitution, S.Paul s, 1722 , reproduced in A.E.Smith, Registerof S.Paul s Episcopal Chapel Aberdeen , Miscellany of the New Spalding Club(Aberdeen, 1906), pp.96 8.44 Deed of Foundation of St.Paul s, Aberdeen.45 NAS, CH12/12/8 (Robert Dongworth, James Greenshields and Mr.James Gray,London, to Dr.George Middleton, 24 Jan 1712/13); NAS, GD220/5/647/3(Thomas Blackwell to the Duke of Montrose, 2 April 1716); NAS GD220/5/639/2(Provost of Aberdeen to the Duke of Montrose 23 February 1716). 9780230_222571_06_cha04.pdf 10/21/09 2:27 PM Page 984Retrieving Captain Le Cocq sPlunder: Plebeian Scots and theAftermath of the 1715 RebellionDaniel SzechiRebellions are ipso facto civil wars in the making.However brief and unsuc-cessful they might be, it is in their very nature to dislocate government andcivil society.Hence the condition of Scotland in March 1716.The Jacobiterebellion that had begun in September 1715 was certainly defeated.JamesStuart, the Old Pretender, had abandoned his retreating army at Montroseand taken ship for France on 4 February accompanied by the erstwhileleader of the rising, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, and a handful of other seniorJacobite officers.1 Major-General Thomas Gordon of Auchintoul, leftbehind with the unhappy task of leading the disintegrating Jacobite armyback to the Highlands and negotiating the best terms he could with thepursuing government army and the Whig authorities in London, had dis-banded what was left of his demoralised forces at Ruthven in Badenoch on14 February.2In the Highlands a few clans such as the Mackenzies, Camerons andMacdonalds of Glengarry were harbouring notable Lowland refugees suchas George Keith, Earl Marischal and James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk, and anumber of officers from the French Irish brigade, who had come toScotland in January.3 Technically they were still in rebellion, having as yetrefused formally to submit
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