Review: Glencoe and the End of the Highland War

Abstract

In my most important source, the Breadalbane Papers (SRO GD 112), the sections I most used were GDI 12/39 and /40. Correspondence, and /43, State Papers including more correspondence. Since 1986, Dr B.L.H. Horn has produced an excellent complete catalogue of GDI 12, entirely rearranging and renumbering these sections in the process. A new GDI 12/39 has been created, consisting of all the letters in the old /39 and /40, and the letters (but not orders) from /43 the most important being Viscount Dundee's letter of 20 July 1689 rearranged in chronological order. The former reference numbers in the old /39 and /40 are included. The new GD 112/40 is the small section of royal letters, formerly /42; the present /42 consists of miscellanea. The one doubtful policy decision was to break up and disperse between sections the original bundles of letters and documents (in 112/43) assembled for different purposes by Breadalbane's agents while defending him against the 1695 treason charge.