Cat No. JM74809
Price £12.50
Composer: Michael Bennett
Categories: Michael Bennett Collection, SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano

Seven Men of Moidart
Charles Edward Stuart arrived on the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides on 2^nd August 1745. With him were seven men, four Irish, two Scottish and one English. They became known as the Seven Men of Moidart. On 19^th August 1745 Charles raised the standard at Glenfinnan to lead the Second Jacobite Rising in his fathers name.
 
1.     William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, was almost sixty. He had supported the Jacobites in both the ’15 and the ’19 and was deprived of his estates at Blair Atholl. Died in the Tower of London in 1746.

2.     Sir John MacDonald, a cavalry officer in the French forces and Instructor of Cavalry to the Jacobites. Kept a journal throughout the campaign which historians found invaluable. Captured at Culloden but claimed French citizenship and was eventually exchanged for English prisoners.

3.     Francis Strickland the only Englishman. Reputed to have died ‘of a dropsy’ in Carlisle.

4.     Sir Thomas Sheridan, the Prince’s elderly  tutor was over seventy years of age in 1745. Sheridan was sent back to Rome to keep King James up to date with events. Died of a fit in 1746.

5.     Aeneas Mac Donald, the only other of Scottish birth, was a banker. He missed Culloden having been sent to Barra to collect a consignment of Spanish money. Died in the French Revolution.

6.     Parson George Kelly who was sent to France with news of the Jacobite victory at Prestonpans. He joined the Prince in exile in Paris and died in 1762.

7.     John William O’Sullivan, an Irishman who generates much debate about his influence over the Prince. Escaped to France and married Louise Fitzgerald. Died in the early 1760s.