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FUNERAL = OF SIR EWAN CAMERON OF LOCHIEL   Contributed by Chris Doak

From "The Wodrow Correspondence"(1824), letters to and from the Rev. Robert Wodrow, Historian of the Sufferings [sic] of the Chur= ch of Scotland.

20 February 1714: Rev.James Hart to Robert Wodrow: "I had lately an account of a solemnity = of a Highland funeral. Campbell[= sic]of Lochiel died about the 10th of January, and his= corps were kept unburied till the 28th (and I wonder why not the 30th = of that month). His son, who has lately set upon the Jaco= bite lay, did delay the internment of his father's corps so long, that he might = have occasion to draw together such disaffected parties of the Highland Clans as= lay next him, and others, upon the contrary lay, under the skulk of a funeral solemnity, did go to be a check upon the Jacobites.

In short, there were upwards of two thousand and five hundred men in arms w= ell appointed, thirteen pipers, a pair of colours belonging to Bredalbin, and out of his lands fi= ve hundred men, commanded by Robert Roy McGregor, a bankrupt Jacobite."

26 February 1714: Rev.Robert Wodrow to James Hart.
"Rev. Dear Brother, I thank you for our account of Lochiel's burial; his name is Cameron, though you term him Campbell. I am well assure= d, for all our security in this country, that, in the West Highlands, there ca= n be got together, in a day's warning, fifteen hundred well-armed, upright, well-bodied Papists, within two days and a half march = of Glasgow. Argyle h= as acted most unaccountably in disobliging many of the western clans, and made fearf= ully false steps in that country; and if he don't very speedily retrieve things, he will be a cipher in the Highlands."