Robert Forbes
Robert Forbes (1708 - 1775) was the episcpalian bishop of Ross and Caithness and an ardent Scottish Jacobite.
On 7 September 1745, while Charles Edward Stuart was on his descent from the Highlands, he was one of three episcopalian clergymen arrested at St. Ninians, near Stirling, suspected of intending to join the rebels. He was confined in Stirling Castle till 4 February 1746, and in Edinburgh Castle until 29 May.
In about 1760, Forbes began to write in the Edinburgh Magazine, his articles being chiefly topographical and antiquarian.
His major work is the Lyon in Mourning, ten octavo volumes in manuscript, bound in black, and filled with collections relative to the Jacobite Rising of 1745 with which are bound up a number of relics of the same expedition. Among those interviewed in detail for the project was the Scottish Gaelic poet and Jacobite propagandist Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair. The volumes date from 1747 to 1775; extracts from them were published (1834) under the title of Jac…more
On 7 September 1745, while Charles Edward Stuart was on his descent from the Highlands, he was one of three episcopalian clergymen arrested at St. Ninians, near Stirling, suspected of intending to join the rebels. He was confined in Stirling Castle till 4 February 1746, and in Edinburgh Castle until 29 May.
In about 1760, Forbes began to write in the Edinburgh Magazine, his articles being chiefly topographical and antiquarian.
His major work is the Lyon in Mourning, ten octavo volumes in manuscript, bound in black, and filled with collections relative to the Jacobite Rising of 1745 with which are bound up a number of relics of the same expedition. Among those interviewed in detail for the project was the Scottish Gaelic poet and Jacobite propagandist Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair. The volumes date from 1747 to 1775; extracts from them were published (1834) under the title of Jac…more
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Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45
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2000
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The Drove Roads of Scotland
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1952
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The Immeasurable Wilds: Travellers to the Far North of Scotland, 1600 - 1900
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2022
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History of the Episcopal Church in Orkney 1688 - 1882
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1883
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
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2025
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