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Title page
History
of the

CHISHOLMS
With
Genealogies of the Principal
Families of the Name,
By
Alexander Mackenzie, F.S.A. Scot.,
Author of [several books]

VI AUT VIRTUTE.

INVERNESS: A. & W. MACKENZIE

MDCCCXCI
Page 223 Appendix.

HUGH CHISHOLM (MACLEA), PROTECTOR OF PRINCE CHARLES

When the unfortunate Prince Charles was wandering in the…

Page 224 The History of the Chisholms.

…mountains with a reward of £30,000 for his apprehension, his concealment and his
actual preservation depended on three poor Highlanders who knew his retreat, and,
eluding the vigilance of the military, carried to his cave the few necessaries they could
procure. These three were the last that parted with him when he left Arisaig, and one of
them Hugh Siosal (Maclea), after shaking the right hand of his Prince would never more
give his own to any man. Finlay Macmillan and Kennedy were the other two and their
names deserve to be recorded with the most magnanimous and high minded of mankind.
[Mr. Colin Chisholm informs us, on the lady’s own authority, that “as an act of
great condescension he (Hugh Chisholm) gave his right hand to Mary, the only child of his
chief, The Chisholm. At the same time he took special care to explain to Miss Chisholm
(afterwards Mrs. James Gooden, of Tavistock Square, London,) that she was the first and
would certainly be the last to shake hands with him after Prince Charles.” The same
gentleman says that “Kennedy, who fought in the battle of Culloden, was afterwards
hanged in Inverness for stealing a cow! Yet this unfortunate Highlander could have
secured £30,000 for betraying his Prince.”]