Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745‪.‬

The history of the Jacobites properly begins with the brave and conscientious men who followed James the Second to France, or fought and bled for him in the United Kingdom. Of the few nobles whom that Monarch had distinguished by his friendship when Duke of York, or graced with his favours when King, three only in Scotland remained attached openly to his interests: these were the Duke of Gordon, the Lord Balcarras, and Claverhouse of Dundee, who may be regarded as the parents of the Jacobite party in Scotland. 'The other nobles of the late King's party', remarks a great historian, 'waited for events, in hopes and in fears, from the Old Government and the New, intriguing with both, and depended upon by neither'.