Waverley guide

Summary

Characters

• AliceAlso WaverleyGuardianFrom Volume I, Chapter 1 (1)
• EdwardAlso Stanley, WaverleyLeadFrom Volume I, Chapter 1 (1)
• EverardAlso WaverleyGuardianFrom Volume I, Chapter 1 (1)
• RichardAlso WaverleyGuardianFrom Volume I, Chapter 1 (1)
• Charles EdwardAlso StuartGatekeeperFrom Volume I, Chapter 2
• Mr. PembrokeGuardianFrom Volume I, Chapter 5 (1)
• GardinerGuardianFrom Volume I, Chapter 5 (1)
• BradwardineAlso Tully-VeolanGuardianFrom Volume I, Chapter 6
• DuncanAlso MacwheebleHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 6
• DavieAlso GellatleyHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 9
• JanetAlso GellatleyHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 9
• Rose BradwardineAlso Miss BradwardineLoveFrom Volume I, Chapter 9
• BalmawhappleRivalFrom Volume I, Chapter 10
• FergusAlso Mac-Ivor, Vich Ian Vohr, GlennaquoichRivalFrom Volume I, Chapter 15
• FloraAlso Mac-IvorHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 15
• EvanAlso Dhu, MaccombichHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 16
• DonaldAlso Bean LeanVillainFrom Volume I, Chapter 16
• CallumAlso Callum BegHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 18
• Ebenezer CruickshanksVillainFrom Volume I, Chapter 29
• MortonHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 30
• MelvilleGatekeeperFrom Volume I, Chapter 31
• Fitzosborne of DiggswellHelperFrom Volume I, Chapter 4 (2)
• Duncan DurochHelperFrom Volume II, Chapter 38
• TalbotHelperFrom Volume II, Chapter 49

Chapter by chapter

Storylines

• The narrator plans a story titled Waverley, named for its hero and set sixty years before 1 November 1805, concentrating on character and shared human passions to offset the disadvantages of its historical period.

  • The narrator identifies preservation of disappearing Scottish manners as a purpose of the fiction, describes his historical sources, recounts suspending and rediscovering the manuscript, and dedicates the novel to Henry Mackenzie.

• Edward sets out from Waverley-Honour to join his regiment after receiving a commission in the dragoons.

  • Richard accepts Edward's captaincy, Edward receives instructions to join at Dundee within a month, and he leaves home. His arrival at the regiment is not established.
  • Preparations for Edward's military journey advance through campaign advice, recruits, an arranged introduction, farewell instruction, manuscripts and financial gifts.
  • Edward completes his journey from Waverley Hall and reaches his regiment at Dundee.

• Richard's political course estranges the brothers and provokes Everard's resentment and consideration of an adverse estate settlement; the resentment later subsides and civil relations resume, without an established resolution of their political differences.

  • A reconciliation restores the brothers' relations, but no resolution of their political differences is established.
  • Richard's dismissal renews family solidarity: Everard sets aside their differences, promises financial protection and joins the demand that Edward resign. Their underlying political differences are not explicitly settled.

• Richard seeks independence and advancement through his own exertions, rejecting inherited political obligations and adopting public allegiance to the Whigs and Hanoverian succession; ministerial favour, parliamentary success and a paid appointment advance him.

  • Richard pursues greater influence through a ministerial faction, but its failure costs him his office, income and public credit, leaving him resentful in retirement.
  • Richard's death ends his pursuit of advancement; his separate negotiation with government is disclosed without an established outcome.

• Everard considers changing the estate settlement against Richard and summons Clippurse, but abandons an immediate settlement favouring the Highley branch and keeps the lawyer available for a later summons.

• Everard resolves to marry and courts Lady Emily, but withdraws after learning and confirming that she loves another; he subsequently avoids further courtship.

• Lady Emily's attachment to a young soldier is initially concealed from Everard by a misleading explanation of her restraint, then disclosed by her elder sister and confirmed by Emily herself.

• Lady Emily loves a young soldier related to her; Everard relinquishes his competing claim, and the earl consents to their marriage.

• Richard marries a young woman of rank and intends to advance his career through her family's influence and fortune, acquiring a valuable nearby manor through the marriage.

• Everard accepts Edward as the object of his unmet familial hopes and patronage; frequent companionship deepens their mutual attachment and leads to an arrangement for Edward to spend most of each year at Waverley-Hall.

  • Edward's repeated transfers to Waverley-Honour, Everard's responsibility for his education and unrestricted access to the family library extend his place within his uncle's household and patronage.
  • Everard's concern for Edward prompts an active attempt to guide his habits through shared field sports.
  • Everard offers financial support for Edward's travel and accommodates his military service despite political vexation; Edward willingly complies with his uncle's request to appear at church in uniform.
  • Everard extends his patronage through personal counsel, support for Edward's recruits and an introduction to Bradwardine.
  • Edward reunites with Everard, whose attachment is reinforced by Talbot's account of Edward's courage and generosity.

• Richard sees Edward's attachment to Everard as a means of securing Edward's inheritance and tacitly agrees to his extended residence at Waverley-Hall.

  • Repeated stays at Waverley-Honour and the allocation of educational responsibility to Everard put Richard's agreement to Edward's extended residence into practice; the inheritance itself remains unsecured.

• Richard arranges instruction for Edward through his private secretary at Brerewood Lodge and assigns responsibility for Edward's literary education at the Hall to Everard.

• The chaplain refuses the accession oaths and loses his Oxford fellowship as a consequence.

• The chaplain seeks to prevent Edward's superficial learning by directing him toward close linguistic and critical study, but weakened instructional authority and Edward's freedom to choose his studies impede sustained discipline.

  • Pembroke acknowledges shortcomings in his teaching and renews his educational efforts through warnings and manuscripts, although Edward's sustained study is not established.

• Edward's shame in accomplished company fosters the mistaken belief that he is unsuited to society, while ancestral legends and private fantasy increasingly draw him into solitude.

  • Edward begins comparing imagined women with actual women, experiences a passing attraction, and declares an intention to exchange romantic dreams for military honour before leaving home. These changes do not establish that his mistaken belief about his fitness for society has been corrected.
  • His difficulty mastering field duty extends his pattern of painful self-comparison into military life, where he concludes that he lacks the abilities his profession values.

• Everard attempts to counter Edward's solitary habits through field sports; Edward learns to shoot but loses enjoyment, and his subsequent enthusiasm for angling ends in abandonment.

• Wilibert returns to find his betrothed married to her protector, relinquishes his claim, and seeks peace in a neighbouring cloister.

• Alice orders William and the domestics to create a diversion so Charles can escape; William secures the king's safety but is captured, mortally wounded, and dies.

• Saint Aubin maintains lifelong unmarried mourning for William, returns to their shared places at Waverley-Honour, and dies unmarried.

• Edward develops a passing attraction to Cecilia Stubbs, who seeks his interest; his attraction fades, and his departure ends her hopes of marrying him.

• Rachel seeks to prevent Edward's attachment to Cecilia from developing by sending him away; she accepts his military appointment as the resulting arrangement and is gratified by Cecilia's eventual marriage.

• Everard agrees to fund Edward's foreign travel with Pembroke, and Richard initially accepts; ministerial opposition leads Richard to replace the travel proposal with an army commission.

• Edward's service under the Brunswick dynasty vexes Everard because of his Jacobite loyalties, but Everard consoles himself with other loyal families' participation and the honour of military activity.

  • Everard's accommodation of Edward's royal service gives way to an explicit demand for resignation following Richard's dismissal; Rachel also urges withdrawal.

• Edward resolves in verse to exchange romantic dreaming for honour and military life.

  • Initial delight in military novelty gives way to disappointment in his abilities and boredom, weakening his commitment to military life and prompting plans for leave.
  • Edward's military aspirations are obstructed by his supersession and sense of public disgrace; he commits instead to resigning.

• Jonas Culbertfield becomes Cecilia's alternative to Edward; Cecilia and her father relax their requirement of gentility, and Cecilia marries Jonas.

• Everard wishes the estate recruits to accompany Edward to Scotland, but relinquishes this arrangement after learning it would be considered unusual.

• Twenty estate men enlist in Edward's troop, and Everard strengthens their attachment to Edward through a farewell feast and monetary gifts.

  • The recruits' shared service with Edward becomes implicated in suspected disaffection when an emissary invokes joining Edward with Prince Charles as the object of desertion; Edward's authorization or participation is not established.

• Everard arranges Edward's introduction to his longstanding friend Bradwardine.

  • Edward resolves to visit Bradwardine first and begins the journey, putting Everard's intended introduction into motion.
  • Edward reaches Bradwardine's manor avenue, bringing the arranged introduction closer, though no meeting occurs in these events.
  • Edward seeks admission to visit Bradwardine, reaches his butler, and sends his credentials through Davie to announce his arrival; the meeting has not yet occurred.
  • Edward meets Bradwardine, whose pleasure in receiving his friend's nephew fulfils Everard's intended introduction.

• Bradwardine seeks safety after capture for supporting the exiled Stuarts; his return for his abandoned Livy leads to recapture, but a lawyer ultimately secures his discharge.

• Bradwardine and Everard form a firm friendship through shared sports and politics after Bradwardine's release; Bradwardine repays the legal expenses, and annual letters and gifts sustain their attachment.

  • Everard and Bradwardine renew their correspondence over the marriage joining their families.

• Pembroke seeks to fortify Edward against religious and political doctrines he considers pernicious, supplying farewell warnings and resolving to provide manuscript copies that are packed in Edward's trunk.

  • Pembroke continues his effort to guide Edward through a lengthy supplementary letter and plans to send further writings.
  • Pembroke's writings reached Edward; two manuscripts reportedly found in his baggage are now treated as treasonable evidence.

• Pembroke seeks publication of his religious and political manuscripts, but commercial objections and legal concerns defeat his approaches to two publishers, and he returns with his work unpublished.

• Edward develops a peculiar, solemn interest in Gardiner through the account of Gardiner's religious conversion.

• Edward's military instruction falls short of his expectations of mastery, leading him painfully to judge himself inferior in abilities valued by his profession.

• Bored at his quarters, Edward decides to request several weeks of leave to explore Scotland, then sets out toward the Perthshire Highlands.

  • Edward continues his exploration of Scotland, entering Tully-Veolan, forming impressions of its peasantry, and proceeding into the manor avenue.
  • Edward obtains an extension of his leave and chooses to continue staying with Bradwardine.
  • Edward's curiosity about the Highlands becomes an accepted excursion with Evan, taking him through the mountains and across a Highland lake.

• Davie undertakes to find Bradwardine and announce Edward's arrival, carrying Edward's credentials.

  • Davie's summons reaches Bradwardine, who comes to greet Edward.

• Davie has helped Rose when threatened by a bull and wears conspicuous clothing to please her and Bradwardine.

  • The account of Davie's rescue of Rose establishes the Bradwardines' lasting gratitude and protection; Edward learns more about Davie's attachments and supported place in their household.

• Rose receives Edward, clarifies his misunderstanding of the dark hag, and offers to guide him to the copse; her father's arrival interrupts their proposed walk.

  • Rose welcomes Edward into her parlour and sustains their acquaintance through hospitality, singing and accounts of local legend and Janet's persecution.
  • Their acquaintance deepens through shared literary interests, and Rose develops unrecognized romantic affection for Edward.

• Bradwardine's family politics prevent advancement in his intended legal career; he subsequently serves abroad and retires into predominantly like-minded company.

• Bradwardine warmly welcomes Edward as his friend's nephew and extends his hospitality to him.

  • Bradwardine extends his hospitality into active defence of Edward against insult; Edward attempts to stop the resulting fight and helps escort Bradwardine home.
  • Bradwardine protects Edward's rest, is deeply mortified by his proposed departure and persuades him to extend his visit, then proposes a shared excursion.
  • Shared historical interests and Edward's attentive conversation deepen their mutual warmth and esteem. Bradwardine forms a favourable opinion of Edward and extends their companionship into Rose's apartment.
  • Edward maintains his intimacy with Bradwardine despite Gardiner's warnings, judging departure on suspicion unjust.
  • Bradwardine seeks to defend Edward's reputation, approves his entry into Stuart service, and expresses a wish to have had him in his proposed regiment; Edward explains why he committed himself without consultation.
  • Recognition ends Bradwardine's readiness for armed resistance, and his hearty embrace confirms his continuing affection for Edward.
  • Bradwardine welcomes Edward as his prospective son-in-law, and Edward reciprocates his affection while disclaiming any requirement for property or a dowry.

• Edward seeks to limit his drinking and withdraw without offending his hosts, but drinking customs repeatedly draw him into further rounds.

• Bradwardine and Balmawhapple's convivial relations break into a political quarrel and sword combat; others separate them before bloodshed, but Balmawhapple leaves vowing revenge.

  • Bradwardine and Balmawhapple appear together amicably, and Bradwardine mediates the apology and seeks to close the dispute. These events indicate de-escalation without explicitly settling Balmawhapple's earlier vow of revenge.
  • The subsequent encounter disarms and wounds Balmawhapple and produces his apology; Bradwardine regards the duel and accepted apology as satisfying the quarrel.

• Balmawhapple's political insult offends Edward, who seeks to answer the personal affront while Bradwardine insists on intervening.

  • Edward initially intends to seek satisfaction through a challenge, but accepts Balmawhapple's mediated apology and offered hand, relinquishing pursuit of the insult.

• Edward attempts to separate Bradwardine and Balmawhapple, but stumbles over Killancureit; subsequent intervention by others ends the fight before bloodshed.

  • The immediate confrontation has ended, and the accepted apology closes the occasion for Edward's intervention.

• Bradwardine insists on apologizing before retiring after Edward and Saunderson escort him home.

• Edward intends to leave Tully-Veolan and enlist a brother officer to convey a challenge to Balmawhapple.

  • Edward learns that Bradwardine has already fought Balmawhapple and secured the apology. Although concerned about his honour, Edward ceases pressing his objection, superseding his intended challenge.

• Balmawhapple's injured arm raises an unanswered question about its cause; Edward notices the sling, while Balmawhapple attributes the injury to a horse fall.

  • Saunderson's account establishes that Bradwardine wounded Balmawhapple's sword arm, explaining the injury previously attributed to a horse fall.

• Bradwardine proposes a morning ride and possible roe hunt with Edward, directing Davie to meet them with Ban and Buscar.

  • The proposed outing takes place: they meet Davie, hunt and kill a roe, and return to Tully-Veolan.

• Villagers falsely believe Davie feigns incapacity to escape hard labour, misreading the limitations and selective abilities described by the Bradwardines.

• Davie's brother is educated for the Scottish church but cannot obtain preferment because of his association with the Bradwardine estate; he returns home despairing, declines and dies despite Bradwardine's support.

• Edward wishes to study Bradwardine's character more attentively after their conversation deepens his interest in him.

• Janet's accusers persecute her for supposed witchcraft, coercing her into believing the accusation; their panic during her examination and subsequent shame lead them to abandon prosecution.

• Bradwardine attends Janet's examination to ensure that she receives fair treatment; the proceedings end without further prosecution.

• Edward believes Bradwardine's intervention may prejudice his military honour; Bradwardine argues that the duel and accepted apology satisfy both men's claims. Edward stops objecting without clearly accepting this reasoning.

• Duncan seeks to set aside the male-line settlement, supported by counsel's opinion, but Bradwardine refuses and Duncan abandons pressing the proposal.

• Duncan plans a marriage between Rose and Balmawhapple and tells Saunderson of his intentions.

• Edward introduces Rose to new literary pleasures through his books, and she develops romantic affection for him without recognizing it herself.

  • Rose's correction of the intimate salutation suggests restraint in addressing Edward; her warning moves him, and he replies with thanks, concern and reassurance, without establishing reciprocal romantic affection.
  • Rose's concern for Edward's apparent ill health and her secret, unselfish delight in his public success further manifest her affection.
  • Edward's repeated visits bring growing esteem for Rose and recognition of her developing qualities. Rose becomes less timid, and her unwitting disclosure reveals her love to Flora.
  • Edward introduces Rose to Romeo and Juliet and increasingly admires her welcome and emotional responsiveness; reciprocal courtship is not yet established.
  • Rose's earlier affection develops into an acknowledged reciprocal attachment and formal betrothal.
  • Rose's attachment culminates in her marriage to Edward.

• The neighbours mistakenly interpret Edward's intimacy with the household as Bradwardine's calculated attempt to secure a wealthy husband for Rose, increasing their estimate of Bradwardine's practical shrewdness.

• Gardiner urges Edward to limit his intimacy with politically suspect gentlemen and prelatic clergy; Edward probably attributes the warnings to prejudice, chooses to remain with Bradwardine, and assures Gardiner that his loyalty is secure.

  • Edward responds to Gardiner's recall with hostility and an unverified belief in political persecution, while Fergus's influence draws him toward the allegiance Gardiner's earlier warnings sought to guard against.

• Caterans seize Tully-Veolan's milch cows after Bradwardine discontinues protection payments; the household's disarmament leaves it unable to mount an effective immediate response.

  • Evan investigates the robbery and begins pursuing the stolen cattle; their recovery is not yet established.
  • The surviving cattle are released for return to Tully-Veolan, ending their detention, although two have already been slaughtered.
  • The retrospective account identifies Donald's taking of two milch cows and establishes that Fergus used the raid to repair his relationship with Bradwardine; it does not reopen the settled theft.

• Rose seeks to prevent her father's retaliation from producing a lasting feud, advocates paying Fergus the protection arrears, and asks Edward to persuade Bradwardine to reconcile with him.

  • The reconciliation Rose wanted is achieved through Fergus's envoy, removing the immediate quarrel without a recorded intervention by Edward.

• Bradwardine's friendship with Fergus has become a quarrel over Fergus's claims to precedence and the discovery that protection money had been paid without Bradwardine's informed consent; Bradwardine refuses renewed concessions.

  • Fergus seeks reconciliation without assigning blame, and Evan restores the friendship through reciprocal regret and ceremonial drinking. Subordinate settlement terms remain under negotiation.
  • The chapter recounts the quarrel and explicitly confirms reconciliation, now explaining its usefulness to Fergus.

• Bradwardine proposes assembling neighbouring lairds for armed pursuit of the cattle raiders, but their head start and the time required to gather a force prevent the council from reaching a decision.

• Macwheeble agrees to supply three milk cows for Bradwardine's family while his own household substitutes small ale for milk.

• Evan undertakes to negotiate subordinate settlement terms with Macwheeble after restoring friendship between Bradwardine and Fergus.

• Evan seeks to recover the stolen cattle, gathering information about the robbery and setting out in pursuit.

  • Evan's pursuit secures the return of all surviving cattle; the two slaughtered before his arrival cannot be recovered.

• Edward and Evan develop mutual regard: Edward admires Evan's investigative skill, Evan enjoys his attention, and Edward's willingness to cross streams unaided raises him in Evan's esteem.

• Edward accepts Evan's invitation to accompany the cattle search into the Highlands, with a proposed visit to Fergus on the return journey.

  • Edward's Highland journey with Evan brings him into Donald's inhabited cavern, where he spends the night; neither recovery of the cattle nor the proposed visit to Fergus is established.
  • With the cattle returning separately, Edward continues with Evan toward Glennaquoich and meets Fergus on the way.
  • Edward reaches Glennaquoich with Fergus, carrying out the proposed visit following the cattle search.
  • The proposed visit to Fergus has been realized, and Edward agrees to extend his stay at Glennaquoich.

• Edward seeks to dispel Evan's belief that Englishmen are effeminate, persisting in the march despite greater fatigue than he expected.

• Donald intends to receive Edward formally, possibly wearing his former military uniform as a compliment, and provides him with hospitality in the cavern.

  • Edward receives breakfast through Alice's efforts, Donald departs, and Edward subsequently leaves the cavern, completing the hospitality.

• Donald suspects that Edward's visit has an undisclosed purpose and invites his confidence; Edward is frightened by the insinuations and cannot bring himself to ask what Donald means.

  • Donald's insinuations are explained by his mistaken belief that Edward sought assistance with a secret Stuart intrigue; he subsequently abandons that belief.

• Evan expresses willingness to marry Alice if Donald dies and no longer needs her help.

• Gilliewhackit and Lady Cramfeezer intend to marry; Donald's abduction of the bridegroom interrupts their preparations, but his release and an amicable settlement permit the wedding plans to continue.

• Donald abducts Gilliewhackit for ransom. Appeals for official intervention fail, and the captive contracts smallpox; after his recovery, Donald releases him and accepts a voluntary payment, ending the dispute amicably.

• After mistreatment by a doctor near Paris, Donald vows to throw the first doctor caught beyond the pass into the lake; this threat prevents local doctors from treating Gilliewhackit.

• Gilliewhackit promises to acquit Donald if he serves on his jury, except in cases of wilful arson or murder under trust.

• Fergus chooses to meet Edward with only one attendant to make a favourable impression; Edward responds favourably to his appearance and affability.

  • Fergus extends his effort to impress Edward from personal affability to a display of military power, which succeeds in impressing him.

• Fergus warmly welcomes Edward as Bradwardine's friend, and Edward forms a favourable first impression of him.

  • Their acquaintance develops through Edward's visit, his attendance at the exercise, Fergus's explanations of clan policy and his invitation into the house for dinner.
  • Fergus seats Edward beside him, publicly honours him, removes Ballenkeiroch's prejudice against him, explains unfamiliar matters and extends his hospitality through an invitation to Flora's tea-table.
  • Edward accepts an extended stay with Fergus, who also lends him his family seal.
  • Edward's affection for Fergus increases. Fergus saves his life during the hunt, arranges transport and care for his injuries, leaves Callum to attend him, and returns to accompany him home.
  • Fergus's warm welcome comforts Edward, and their shared allegiance gives Fergus further pleasure in their association.
  • Fergus and his officers warmly receive Edward as their comrade.

• John seeks recognition as chief of his original clan, but defeat drives him and his followers south; royal service subsequently wins him an estate, wealth and standing as John of the Tower.

• Fergus's father's commitment to the failed Stuart rising leads to exile and estate forfeiture; French employment and marriage establish a new household, and the estate is subsequently repurchased in Fergus's name.

• Fergus seeks to enlarge and consolidate his chiefly power by reconciling clans, attracting followers, training his men and controlling enforcement within his territory.

  • Fergus's gift to the bard wins clan approval, strengthening his standing among his followers.
  • Fergus brings Flora to Edinburgh partly to increase his own importance at court, extending his pursuit of influence through her presence.

• Government suspicion of Fergus's conduct costs him his independent company command and military pay.

• Border inhabitants purchase Fergus's protection against freebooters, becoming dependent on his influence while their payments sustain his hospitality.

• Fergus pursues Stuart restoration, convinced that it is imminent and will reward its supporters with rank; Stuart confidence, money and an earldom patent reinforce his commitment.

  • The account establishes Fergus's devoted Stuart attachment and the royal patronage and gratitude that strengthen it; it records the background to his present commitment.
  • Fergus promotes Stuart restoration by attempting to recruit Edward's personal resentment to the cause.
  • Fergus secures a valuable Stuart adherent, increases his importance with the Prince and presses for battle.
  • Fergus confirms possession of an earldom patent but withholds its public use to avoid rivals' jealousy, while continuing to advocate battle against Cope.
  • Fergus's expectation of rank through Stuart service encounters the Prince's wish to defer his earldom, provoking anger and disappointment without establishing that he abandons the cause.
  • English indifference or hostility and Tory avoidance undermine the expected support for Stuart restoration.
  • The decision to retreat defeats Fergus's attempt to continue the English advance and further obstructs his pursuit of Stuart restoration.
  • Fergus's conviction and imminent execution prevent further pursuit of Stuart restoration; he declines to plead for his life.
  • Fergus learns that the Prince is safe, but his own execution ends his ability to pursue Stuart restoration.

• Fergus prepares forces and cultivates regional Jacobite alliances for an opportunity to rise, using reconciliation with Bradwardine to repair a politically useful connection.

  • Flora's intervention is revealed to have moderated Fergus's anger and secured his agreement to reconciliation with Bradwardine, which also serves his ulterior projects.
  • Fergus extends his cultivation of useful connections by using his influence over Edward to encourage political revenge against the government.
  • Fergus receives one hundred firelocks and as many broadswords for his forces, reports his men's eagerness to obtain them, and proceeds to inspect military preparations.
  • Fergus confirms that he awaits a favourable opportunity to rise and continues practical military preparations by planning to inspect equipment.

• Fergus's party commitment leads him to justify conduct that his personal honour would otherwise forbid.

• Fergus uses a clan readiness inspection to impress Edward with his military strength and authority; Edward watches and recognizes both.

• Fergus presents suppressing Donald as incompatible with preserving his own arms, explaining to Edward that intervention would expose them to confiscation.

• Ballenkeiroch resents Bradwardine for killing his son about seven years earlier and initially extends that hostility to Edward; Fergus explains that Edward has no family alliance with Bradwardine, enabling reciprocal courtesy and health-drinking.

  • Fergus prevents Ballenkeiroch from renewing the quarrel. Bradwardine learns whose father he is and resolves to tolerate his hostility; the reported formal settlement establishes that compensation has not extinguished the father's resentment.
  • Ballenkeiroch exploits the confrontation between the clansmen and Bradwardine's cavalry as an opportunity for revenge, covertly encouraging the disorder.

• Edward seeks to learn the meaning of Mac-Murrough's first Gaelic song, believing that it mentioned him.

  • Flora confirms that the song referred to Edward and explains that its foreign horseman is exhorted to ancestral loyalty, satisfying his particular curiosity about what the bard said of him.

• Fergus proposes taking Edward to Flora's tea-table; Edward accepts, and they leave the banqueting hall.

  • Fergus formally introduces Edward and Flora, carrying forward the proposed visit; the tea-table meeting is not yet recorded as completed.
  • Edward meets Flora and their conversation develops into an arranged private recitation at her retreat.

• Flora's devoted attachment to the exiled Stuarts is strengthened by gratitude for the royal support and attention she and Fergus receive after their parents' deaths.

  • Flora gives Edward the song's political meaning and completes its call for armed resistance to foreign rule, expressing her Stuart allegiance through her performance.
  • Flora's Stuart loyalty emerges as the governing commitment of her life, shaping both her refusal of Edward and her advice about his political conduct.

• Anticipating limited access to French, English and Italian literature, Flora takes up Highland music and poetic traditions; pleasure in the work and her informants' apparent delight strengthen her commitment.

  • Her study of Highland poetry becomes an English translation and harp performance for Edward; she obtains the exact lines concerning him to incorporate their meaning.

• Flora intends to devote savings from her pension to necessities for sick and very old members of the clan.

• Edward develops an intense romantic attraction to Flora, heightened by her retreat and musical performance; Flora enjoys his admiration but interprets it as a passing response to the setting.

  • Edward's romantic attachment increases during his stay, and his approach to Glennaquoich and reunion with Flora produce heightened excitement; reciprocal romantic attachment remains unestablished.
  • Edward's attraction becomes an explicit declaration. Flora refuses permission for further courtship and rules out both a prior attachment and their short acquaintance as her objection; her explanation remains pending.
  • Edward's attachment persists through rejection and renewed persuasion, but Flora explicitly limits her affection to friendship, leaving him disappointed and dejected.
  • The prospect of permanent separation causes Edward intense pain, but Flora refuses a farewell interview.
  • Edward's idealization of Flora and absorption in her verses renew his romantic hopes, but these exceed the encouragement established by her conduct and do not remove her refusal.
  • Edward understands Flora's fraternal greeting as definitive rejection and suffers intensely. Her subsequent discovery of his social brilliance establishes increased appreciation without renewed romantic encouragement.
  • Edward continues visiting Flora but recognizes that his courtship makes no progress; Flora determines to reject him finally.
  • Edward questions Flora's superiority to Rose, judges Rose more favourably in musical ear and feeling, and decides to cease pursuing Flora.
  • Edward accepts Flora's rejection and finally renounces further courtship, even if she changes her mind.

• Edward agrees to remain at Glennaquoich for a fortnight and attend the grand hunt, notifying Bradwardine and asking him to forward any letters through Fergus's gilly.

  • Edward attends the grand hunt and later receives the letters forwarded from Tully-Veolan, fulfilling those parts of his arrangement; completion of the intended fortnight is not established.

• Edward feels discomfort at Fergus's joking wish to marry Rose, revealing an emotional investment whose nature remains uncertain.

  • Edward learns that Fergus's proposed marriage to Rose is a serious scheme and experiences conflicting feelings, renewing his emotional investment without clarifying its nature.

• Edward discovers that his armorial seal is missing and supposes he left it at Tully-Veolan; Flora suspects Donald took it, but the cause of its disappearance remains unestablished.

  • Edward learns that his seal authenticated Rufin's purported authority and recalls losing it in Donald's cavern. He infers Donald's acquisition and misuse of it, but that agency remains an inference.
  • The account establishes that Donald stole Edward's seal to authenticate false approaches to his men.

• Flora urges Fergus to expel Donald from his territory, but abandons the present argument without securing his agreement.

• Fergus takes most of his followers on a distant expedition whose destination and purpose remain undisclosed to Edward. Edward's inquiry is evaded, and he concludes that further questioning would displease Fergus.

• Fergus communicates news to Flora in Gaelic; its contents remain undisclosed, while her response shows apparent devotional joy and gratitude.

• The insurgent ministers recruit supporters and enlist Richard with a conditional offer of higher office, but their attempt to displace the ministry collapses.

• Richard, Everard and Rachel urge Edward to leave royal service. Edward drafts and dispatches a formal resignation after learning that he has already been superseded.

  • Edward's departure from royal service becomes known to Flora, and he publicly disavows attachment to that service by removing its cockade.
  • Edward has relinquished his commission, completing his withdrawal from royal military service.

• Everard commits to protecting Richard from the financial consequences of his dismissal.

• Gardiner orders Edward back to headquarters under threat of discipline. Edward interprets the order and his subsequent supersession as a deliberate attempt to disgrace his family, although that concerted purpose is not established.

  • Edward's loss of military standing and Richard's disgrace deepen the family's perceived humiliation, without establishing a concerted government purpose.
  • Edward recounts receiving the return order too late to obey and discovering his supersession; Melville adds that his conduct over the treasonable toast and failure to explain it are held against him.
  • The reported sequence places Edward's failure to answer repeated demands, refusal to return, resignation and loss of commission within the case against him.
  • Renewed awareness of his danger strengthens Edward's hostility toward the government he holds responsible.
  • Edward's resentment of government treatment develops into the conviction that he is absolved from allegiance to it.
  • Edward learns that a public proclamation names him among alleged traitors threatened with punishment, extending the government's action against him beyond his supersession.
  • Edward abandons his interpretation of Gardiner's conduct as deliberate persecution, recognizing that the mutiny in his name justified and necessitated Gardiner's actions and that his own neglect exposed him to disgrace.
  • Edward learns that Gardiner reconsidered his case and softened toward him after new circumstances and renewed examination of the mutineers, qualifying Edward's earlier belief that Gardiner deliberately sought his family's disgrace.
  • Recovered correspondence leads Edward to recognize Gardiner's recall and his own dismissal as justified, overturning his interpretation of deliberate persecution.

• Edward comes under Fergus's considerable personal influence, turning to him over his resignation while Fergus cultivates his resentment and directs it toward political revenge.

  • Edward continues to confide in Fergus but asserts his own course by refusing recruitment, insisting on departure and offering payment for the horse.
  • Fergus brings Edward into the Prince's presence, and Edward subsequently requests to serve under Fergus.
  • Edward confides his adventures to Fergus and accepts practical preparations for service, but privately judges Fergus's use of Flora selfish and unworthy, qualifying his admiration.
  • Fergus again attempts to direct Edward's feelings toward Stuart allegiance, urging remembrance of the Prince's gift as a means of suppressing his conflicting sympathies; Edward's compliance is not established.
  • Fergus's repeated insensitivity cools Edward's attachment, weakening the personal influence previously established.
  • Edward maintains his independent decision despite Fergus's anger, and their estrangement ends the intimacy through which Fergus exercised influence.

• Fergus seeks to turn Edward's wounded honour against the Hanoverian government and toward the Stuart cause.

  • Fergus attempts to secure Edward's visible commitment to the Stuarts and draws him into inspecting military preparations. Flora prevents the immediate investiture, and Edward feels alarm at joining rebellion, so his allegiance remains unsettled.
  • Edward gains dangerous political knowledge, but Flora counsels independent conviction and he avoids Fergus's further recruitment; no commitment to join is established.
  • Fergus renews his invitation to join the cause, but Edward refuses and maintains his decision to leave despite Fergus's warnings.
  • Edward assures Fergus that he will not resume the government cockade. Fergus links romantic success with heroic royalist action, and Flora's verses engage Edward's enthusiasm, although he makes no explicit commitment to join the Stuart cause.
  • Fergus is reported to have urged Edward to imitate Wogan's defection to the Stuart cause.
  • Edward regrets refusing Fergus's invitation to take the field and interprets his family's letters as directing him toward the Stuart cause, moving toward Fergus's desired commitment without yet joining.
  • Edward commits himself to the Stuart cause, fulfilling Fergus's recruitment objective.

• Edward intends to challenge Gardiner through Fergus, but Fergus refuses to carry the challenge, claiming that approaching government military quarters would endanger him.

• Fergus recognizes Edward's attachment to Flora and plans to promote their marriage by hastening Edward's courtship.

  • Fergus welcomes Edward's serious suit, promises support while reserving Flora's decision, and directs Edward toward her with information about her loyalties and admiration for Wogan.
  • Fergus conditionally promises to protect Edward's romantic interest and uses hints of Flora's prospects and the example of Wogan to suggest that royalist service could secure their marriage.
  • Fergus recognizes Flora's reception as adverse to the marriage he promotes and becomes angry.
  • Flora's determination to reject Edward and direct him toward Rose further obstructs Fergus's proposed marriage between Edward and Flora.
  • Edward's decision to abandon Flora's courtship obstructs Fergus's proposed marriage arrangement.
  • Fergus offers renewed intervention, but Edward unequivocally refuses; Fergus nevertheless intends to consult Flora before accepting the outcome.

• Fergus urges Flora to invest Edward with the Stuart cockade, but Flora refuses to encourage a consequential political commitment while Edward is agitated and insufficiently informed; Fergus rebukes her.

• Edward openly seeks Flora's love and permission to approach Fergus about courting her, but Flora refuses permission.

  • Flora explicitly offers friendship rather than marriage and explains that her overriding political devotion prevents the love Edward seeks. Appeals to his family's political usefulness and his possible future distinction fail; Edward concludes that her refusal will stand for now.
  • Edward remains deeply attached to Flora and seeks a final meeting, but she declines to receive him.
  • Flora's reception confirms Edward's understanding that she refuses his suit.
  • Edward recognizes his lack of progress, while Flora strengthens her determination to refuse him; a final rejection has not yet been communicated.
  • Interpreting Flora's argument as a further rejection, Edward abandons his effort to win her love.

• Flora promises to explain her resolution concerning Edward's suit within an hour.

  • Flora gives the promised explanation of her refusal when Edward requests it.

• Flora urges Edward to refuse Fergus's recruitment, return to England, publicly sever his government ties, and support the Stuarts independently if convinced of their cause; Edward has not agreed.

  • Edward refuses Fergus's recruitment and resolves to depart, partially following Flora's advice; his intended destination is Edinburgh, and he has not adopted her whole proposal.
  • Edward instead pledges allegiance directly to Charles Edward and asks to serve under Fergus, departing from Flora's proposed independent course.

• Edward seeks to avoid a private interview with Fergus to escape teasing about his rejected courtship and further political recruitment.

  • Edward abandons avoidance and discusses his situation and departure with Fergus, encountering and refusing renewed recruitment.

• Rose seeks Edward's safety by warning him of the proceedings against him and urging him to escape to England.

  • Rose's previously hidden intervention secured Edward's rescue, paid for his concealment and care, and obtained the Prince's protection when she feared Donald might betray him.

• Government soldiers investigate Edward's movements, seize his servant, horses and belongings, and make accusations suggesting that his capture would place him in danger.

  • The danger becomes formal detention under a court warrant alleging mutiny, desertion, high treason and levying war, including an alleged scheme to induce Houghton and others to desert.
  • The seized baggage contains Jacobite pamphlets and Pembroke's manuscripts, giving the authorities further material for accusations against Edward.
  • The proclamation publicly identifies Edward as a threatened Jacobite adherent.
  • Edward learns that he is accused of aiding and abetting high treason; Fergus explains the protective intention behind bringing him to Edinburgh as a prisoner, without removing the government accusation.

• A government warrant threatens Bradwardine with arrest; he leaves Tully-Veolan with an armed party after removing usable arms and concealing his papers, while soldiers search his house.

  • Bradwardine returns seeking shelter but remains under military pursuit. Soldiers fire at him; Janet and Davie's deception averts immediate discovery without ending the threat.
  • Intercession secures official protection for Bradwardine and a promise of a future pardon, relieving the immediate threat of arrest without completing his legal restoration.
  • Bradwardine receives a Crown pardon securing his personal safety, ending the threat of arrest for his participation in the rising.

• Rose urges Bradwardine to surrender to the government, but he departs northwards with other gentlemen.

• Edward resolves to leave immediately, seek influential protection in Edinburgh and submit his conduct to examination to clear his reputation.

  • Edward continues toward Edinburgh, overcomes the initial refusal of transport, secures Cruickshanks's accompaniment as far as Perth, pays his bill and resumes his journey. He has not yet obtained protection or an examination of his conduct.
  • Edward tries to continue his journey and then to force his departure, but the crowd seizes and disarms him and escorts him to the local Laird, preventing his intended journey to Edinburgh.
  • Edward realizes that establishing innocence will be difficult, abandons cooperation with the examination, and is detained instead of continuing to Edinburgh.
  • The order to send Edward under guard to Stirling Castle prevents his intended independent journey to Edinburgh to seek protection and clear his reputation.
  • Edward pursues exculpation by confiding in Morton, but his intended transfer to Stirling Castle continues to prevent his journey to Edinburgh.
  • Edward's guarded removal toward Stirling Castle prevents him from carrying out his intended journey to Edinburgh to seek protection and clear his reputation.
  • Edward suffers severe contusions and is carried away from the highroad by Highlanders, leaving his intended journey to Edinburgh and submission for examination unfulfilled.
  • Illness and confinement prevent his intended independent journey to Edinburgh. He subsequently considers different destinations, and the summons to leave with his custodians does not restore his original plan.

• Fergus arranges mounts and a discreet baggage escort for Edward's departure and commits to accompanying him to Bally-Brough; Edward offers to purchase Dermid rather than accept a gift or loan.

  • Fergus accompanies Edward to the pass before turning homeward; Callum continues with Edward to the market-town, and Edward subsequently departs on Dermid and takes leave of Callum.

• Edward seeks a farewell interview with Flora, but she declines and sends good wishes.

• Fergus considers bringing Rose to Glennaquoich and obtaining the soldiers' muskets.

  • Rose has been brought under clan escort to Edinburgh with Flora. Her removal is accomplished, although the earlier proposed destination was Glennaquoich and acquisition of the soldiers' muskets is not established.
  • Fergus's projected intervention becomes a commission to Donald, who expels the soldiers. Bringing Rose to Glennaquoich and obtaining the muskets are not established.

• Edward undertakes to conceal his connection with Fergus in the politically hostile market-town; Callum supports this concealment with a false account of his identity and master's background, leaving Cruickshanks suspicious.

  • Suspicion of Edward's political identity intensifies into the crowd's belief that he is a prominent Jacobite or the Chevalier. His precise connection with Fergus remains undisclosed, but concealment has failed to secure unimpeded passage.
  • Cruickshanks identifies Edward's horse as Fergus's, exposing evidence of the connection Edward sought to conceal.

• Cruickshanks's intrusive questioning meets Edward's resistance and Callum's deception. Cruickshanks retaliates with inflated charges and later resolves to punish Edward for what he interprets as contempt; Callum warns Edward of possible treachery.

  • Cruickshanks withdraws with Edward's horse and valise, refuses assistance, and claims the property as compensation. Edward responds by threatening to shoot him if he moves away with the horses.
  • Cruickshanks supplies suspicions and evidence against Edward and seeks payment, but leaves dissatisfied after Melville threatens scrutiny of his own conduct.

• Callum offers to ambush and kill the landlord on Edward's behalf, but apparently accepts Edward's prohibition of an attack.

• Captain Wogan seeks to support the royalist rising by recruiting Cavaliers and leading them across England to join the Highland force; he achieves the junction and military distinction but subsequently dies of an untreated wound.

• Edward promises to obtain fishing tackle and a crossbow from London for Fergus.

• The Cairnvreckan crowd suspects Edward of being a prominent Jacobite or the Chevalier, prevents his departure, and seizes and disarms him after the shooting. Morton's intervention prevents further violence, and Edward is escorted to the Laird for examination.

  • The crowd's seizure gives way to an official examination and continued guarded detention on formal political charges.
  • Edward's detention following his seizure and examination is to continue as confinement in Stirling Castle under Gilfillan's escort.

• Mrs. Mucklewrath publicly allies herself with Edward and promises him protection because she believes him to be the Prince's friend; her abuse of the crowd increases its hostility toward him.

• John Mucklewrath attacks Edward with a red-hot iron bar, and Edward wounds him with a pistol shot. The smith recovers and demands vengeance, but reluctantly accepts referring Edward to the Laird's jurisdiction.

  • Melville judges the wound minor and Edward's action self-defence, proposing dismissal upon a compensation deposit; payment and dismissal are not established.

• Cruickshanks seeks a reward and immediate reimbursement for helping arrest Edward, but Melville threatens proceedings over his own failure to report a stranger.

• Melville interprets Edward's surprise, papers, family letters and account as evidence supporting the charges, while Morton tentatively sees innocent surprise; Edward concludes that candid answers incriminate him and refuses further questioning.

  • Reported military disaffection, seized writings, apparent disguise and violence strengthen the accusatory account. Morton judges further argument with Melville unproductive and seeks a private interview with Edward for potentially exculpatory information.
  • Morton weakens Melville's confidence in Edward's involvement in the regimental mutiny and secures an invitation to dinner. Edward accepts Morton's guidance and agrees to meet Melville on easier terms, although the charges remain unresolved.

• Melville offers intercession and brief detention to obtain information about the Highland rebels, but Edward vows to die rather than betray knowledge acquired through his hosts' hospitality.

• The estate recruits become disobedient to military authority; Houghton and a companion are detected corresponding with a French emissary who urges them to desert with the troop and join Edward with Prince Charles.

  • Houghton reveals that Rufin deceived the troop through purported instructions from Edward authenticated with his seal. Edward denies authorizing them and learns that Tims was executed and Houghton demoted.
  • Hodges's account establishes Donald's deception and the ensuing mutiny, which is suppressed by disarmament and punishment. Tims loses the drawing of lots, while Houghton is spared and repudiates the supposed authority behind the scheme.

• Morton seeks to protect Edward by proposing that Melville keep him until the crisis passes; after Melville instead orders confinement at Stirling Castle, Morton obtains permission for a private interview to seek mitigating or exculpatory information.

  • Morton conducts the permitted interview, offers confidential assistance, obtains Edward's account and records it; Edward's gratitude strengthens his commitment, but no exoneration is secured.
  • Morton's intervention reduces Melville's suspicion and obtains hospitality for Edward, who agrees to follow Morton's guidance. Edward's release has not been secured.

• Melville decides to entrust Edward to Gilfillan for confinement in Stirling Castle, with strict orders that he be treated well.

  • Morton informs Edward of his destination and identifies Gilfillan as the probable escort, preparing him for the intended transfer without establishing that custody has changed.
  • Gilfillan accepts the escort and begins marching Edward under guard toward Stirling Castle. Melville orders delivery of Edward and his papers to Governor Blakeney, with civil treatment and only necessary restraint, but abandons further advice about marching discipline and precautions against surprise.
  • Gilfillan begins conveying Edward towards Stirling, but the ambush removes Edward from his custody; the escort proceeds without recovering him.

• Edward sets aside his inherited religious distrust of Morton and confides in him; Morton's sympathy earns Edward's attachment and gratitude, which deepen Morton's commitment to helping him.

  • Edward trusts Morton's advice and finds comfort and relief in his kindness.

• Morton proposes seeking permission to visit Edward again later that day.

  • Morton returns to Edward and conveys Melville's dinner invitation.

• Lacy accepts the Franklin's hospitality and intends to remain until the Scottish king returns, identifying himself as an English baron travelling on diplomatic business.

• Adam Kerr's party forcibly enters the Franklin's house and clashes with Lacy's attendants. Superior defensive force and Lacy's assertion of royal safe-conduct secure their departure, but Kerr has threatened retaliation against the Franklin.

• Arthur Fitzherbert disables Kerr's threatening lance, but Lacy punishes his drawing without permission by deferring his knighthood for a year and ordering him from the chamber.

• Learning that Cessford may restrain Kerr, Lacy orders a watch for his approach, asks the Franklin to notify him, and directs Adelbert to prepare his armour.

• Lacy goes to Isabella's chamber to explain the disturbance.

• Canobie Dick establishes repeated profitable horse dealings with a mysterious buyer who pays in ancient gold and requires deliveries alone at night.

• Dick seeks hospitality from the mysterious buyer and accepts a visit despite a warning about losing courage. Continuing into the cavern to avoid appearing cowardly, he sounds the horn, panics at the awakening army, and is expelled with fatal injuries.

• The fragment author apparently abandons the Lord of Ennerdale tale shortly after beginning it.

• Maxwell adapts Sir Henry's family manuscripts into a story about civil conflict, obtains permission to use them, and begins reading Jan Van Eulen's journal to the remaining company.

• The Vicar apparently intends to express disrespect for Maxwell's reading by falling asleep.

• Jan Van Eulen travels to England with his daughter to collect Jane Lansache's inheritance; the captain's estimate of its modest value leaves him suspecting that the captain's family connection points to a larger inheritance.

• After a young sailor saves his daughter from drowning, Jan Van Eulen resolves to reward the rescuer from the anticipated inheritance.

• An English Parliament frigate pursues the Vryheid, whose captain prepares for action; Garbonete subsequently reports that captors have seized her vessel and forcibly removed the injured young mate in irons.

• Garbonete appeals by letter to a relation in England for assistance amid the capture of her vessel and her distress over the treatment and uncertain fate of the young mate who saved her life.

• Boteler arranges a splendid hunt to entertain Fitzallen and Saint Clere; the party completes the chase, but an attack on Emma and Henry interrupts the outing.

  • The hunting company returns to Boteler's mansion, completing the interrupted outing.

• Gregory attends the hunt under threat of punishment from Oswald and subsequently draws Albert Drawslot's threat of a crossbow blow.

• Fitzallen saves Eleanor from the wounded stag, earning public praise from Albert Drawslot and a ceremonial honour from Boteler.

  • Fitzallen and Eleanor marry, completing the relationship development previously marked by his rescue of her.

• Four assassins attack Emma and Henry, slightly wounding Henry. A young forester intervenes, Gregory brings rescuers, and the immediate attack ends with casualties and Gaston Saint Clere in custody.

  • Henry's account clarifies the ambush and rescue, Fitzosborne's explanation exposes Gaston's plot, and Gaston's death ends the continuing threat from him.

• Boteler orders the captured Gaston Saint Clere conveyed to Queenhoo-Hall and kept under close guard after Henry privately identifies him as his kinsman.

  • Gaston is confined but kills himself in custody and is buried, ending the detention through his death.

• The young forester saves Henry from three attackers, but disappears before the rescuers can find him again.

  • Henry and Boteler seek the unidentified rescuer; Emma's recognition and Fitzosborne's explanation establish his identity, and Henry expresses gratitude and respect.

• Gregory seeks a reward for bringing help, and Henry promises recognition of his contribution.

  • Gregory claims credit for subduing Gaston, but the further account attributes the capture to the hounds after Gaston endangered Gregory. Payment of Henry's promised reward is not established.

• Boteler seeks an account from Emma but abandons his questioning because he believes terror has temporarily disturbed her reason.

  • Emma's recognition is confirmed as deliberate, and Fitzosborne's explanation accounts for the protection she had interpreted as supernatural.

• Fitzosborne offers an armed escort after reportedly learning of the attack; Boteler accepts, and the combined party reaches Queenhoo-Hall with renewed confidence.

  • Fitzosborne explains that he armed his followers against further designs by Gaston, clarifying the protective purpose behind the escort that has already reached Queenhoo-Hall.

• Emma resolves to dedicate her remaining life to Heaven after her escape from danger.

• Fitzosborne secretly protects Emma in several disguises, instructing Ursely to conceal his involvement. Emma initially interprets her recurring protector as a guardian angel, then recognizes Fitzosborne; his explanation discloses his human agency and Gaston's plot.

• Fitzosborne's chivalric concern for Emma develops into personal attachment. He attends her in disguise while investigating her supposed preference for Fitzallen, later declares his love and marries her.

• Henry's gratitude for Fitzosborne's protection of Emma establishes respect and attachment between them.

• Gaston abandons purchasing Emma's domains after learning that she has a living brother and plots to dispose of her. Fitzosborne learns of the threat, protects her and arms his followers against further attacks; Gaston's suicide ends his capacity to pursue the plot.

• Fitzosborne seeks to place Emma under his sisters' protection; their absence delays the introduction, and their return allows him to renew the arrangement.

• Margery and Ralph Tasker marry.

• Saint Clere declares his love to Matilda and marries her.

• The George Square boys and the suburb boys conduct recurring street battles; a sword blow seriously wounds Green-Breeks, who later recovers. Their rivalry continues with increased mutual respect.

• The George Square boys pledge to conceal the wounding and the assailant's identity; the watchman avoids identifying him and Green-Breeks refuses to inform. Scott's father eventually learns the story and condemns the concealment.

• Walter Scott and his brothers seek to compensate Green-Breeks for his wound. He refuses money but accepts snuff for an elderly female relative.

• Thomas Scott plans a fiction taking Green-Breeks to Canada among natives and colonists; his premature death leaves its completion unestablished.

• An imprisoned Jacobite escapes but seeks to recover his favourite Titus Livius; he is recaptured, condemned and executed.

• An ale-wife demands compensation after a neighbour's cow drinks her ale and she beats it; the bailie's judgment defeats her claim against the owner.

• Anstruther's antagonist plans to assassinate him at an ostensibly friendly meeting; Anstruther discovers the plot and kills the antagonist.

• After repeated cattle thefts by Rob Roy's gang, Abercromby agrees to pay future protection money in exchange for Rob Roy's promise to spare his herds and replace cattle stolen by others.

• Caterans abduct and imprison a bridegroom who contracts smallpox; after his recovery and payment of ransom, they release him to his friends and bride.

• The Mac laird's wife leads his mobilized clan toward the Jacobite rising, while her husband declares allegiance conditional on continued royal pay.

• Gilfillan resolves to make Edward listen to his religious arguments despite Edward's refusal to debate.

• Highlanders ambush Edward's escort, while the accompanying pedlar disarms a guard and knocks Gilfillan down. Edward is injured beneath his fallen horse and carried away by two Highlanders. The attackers withdraw, and the escort continues towards Stirling without seriously attempting to recover him.

  • The removal begun during the ambush is completed when the Highlanders carry Edward away and lodge him in the hut; his subsequent confinement opens a distinct conflict.

• The identity, allegiance and purpose of Edward's rescuers remain uncertain. He initially attributes the rescue to Fergus, then recognizes that the escort is not of Fergus's clan; warnings of a nearby enemy and Janet's knowledge of his name and rank leave their arrangements unexplained.

  • Edward tentatively recognizes the escort's leader as Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant, witnesses his action against English soldiers, and learns his destination and the governor's identity and office. These disclosures clarify his custodians' connections without establishing the purpose of his rescue or continued custody.
  • Edward identifies Balmawhapple as his escort's commander and is delivered to Holyrood in insurgent-held Edinburgh. His present custody becomes clearer, but the identity and purpose of those who originally arranged his rescue remain unexplained.
  • Fergus identifies Donald as Edward's captor and probable rescuer in the pedlar disguise, and explains his own later recommendation of prisoner status. The rescue attribution remains conjectural, and not every part of the custodial arrangements is explained.
  • Donald is identified as Edward's rescuer and paid protector, and his account traces Edward's subsequent custody. His employer remains unnamed because of his oath.
  • Edward learns that Rose commissioned Donald's rescue, arranged his refuge and sought royal protection; Fergus subsequently advised retaining him as a prisoner to secure an interview with the Prince.

• Edward's Highland rescuers become his custodians, confining him during his illness and preventing him from leaving the hut. He resolves to escape after recovering strength, but their summons to accompany them offers departure without establishing his freedom.

  • Edward leaves the hut and is temporarily armed, but the escort conveys him to Doune Castle and recovers the weapons. Donald Stewart assures him of safety while withholding an explicit answer about whether he is a prisoner, leaving his freedom unestablished.
  • Departure does not restore Edward's freedom: Balmawhapple explicitly calls him a prisoner, restricts conversation with him, and delivers him into the Holyrood guard's custody.
  • His restraint is acknowledged, Charles Edward expressly offers a passport and free departure, and Edward chooses allegiance.

• Edward's attendants conceal a younger woman's presence and obstruct his attempts to identify her. He establishes that she is not Flora but fails to see her face; he later recognizes Alice beside him, without explicitly establishing that she was the concealed woman.

  • Edward identifies the cottage and Janet and learns that Rose visited during his illness. This substantially explains the concealed attendance, although the events do not explicitly identify Rose as the particular younger woman he previously tried to see.

• Edward considers joining Fergus at Glennaquoich or reaching a Scottish seaport to sail to England, but commits to neither destination.

  • Given an explicit opportunity to depart south, Edward chooses Stuart service and requests to volunteer under Fergus, superseding his uncommitted travel alternatives.

• Alice secretly places a packet in Edward's portmanteau and asks him to conceal both the delivery and his recognition of her. She confirms his understanding before leaving; the packet's contents and purpose remain undisclosed.

  • Edward intends to secure and examine Alice's packet after his luggage reappears, but the servant removes the portmanteau before he can do so. He learns that his baggage has been sent ahead; the packet's contents and purpose remain undisclosed.
  • Edward learns that his portmanteau has already gone onward with Fergus's luggage and postpones investigating Alice's mysterious packet.
  • Edward connects Alice's concealed packet with the suspected misuse of his seal and expects it to explain the intrigue; its contents remain unread and undisclosed.
  • The packet is explained as the papers concerning the intrigue against Gardiner's regiment, returned through Alice and Rose without Donald's knowledge.

• Duncan Duroch seeks to get Edward past an English outpost undetected. He wounds the sentinel and draws the soldiers into pursuit, allowing Edward and an attendant to pass safely, then escapes and rejoins the escort.

• Edward seeks information and companionship through conversation with Jinker, but Balmawhapple's prohibition ends his attempts to converse with the escort.

• Jinker joins the rising and accepts an officer's commission as his best prospect of obtaining payment for the horses supplied to Balmawhapple, whose bond reportedly cannot secure recovery against the estate.

  • Balmawhapple's death obstructs Jinker's prospect of obtaining payment from him through campaign service; recovery of the debt remains unestablished.

• A farmer follows his laird to war to preserve his prospect of retaining his farm when its lease expires.

• Fergus promises to arrange a meeting between Edward and Flora after introducing him to Charles Edward.

  • Although Flora is in Edinburgh, Fergus declines to seek a morning reception because of their quarrel and leaves Edward expecting access only at the evening entertainment.
  • Fergus approaches Flora with Edward, and the previously obstructed meeting takes place.

• Charles Edward restores Edward's sense of dignity through personal attention and public recognition; Edward pledges his heart and sword to the Stuart cause and receives the Prince's heirloom broadsword.

  • Edward reiterates his willingness to live and die under the Prince, receives his weapons, and gains Bradwardine's approval and justification for changing allegiance.
  • The Prince responds to Edward's distress with personal attention and advice; Edward recovers his composure and commits to following that advice.
  • The Prince praises Edward's bravery, receives his account of Talbot, and entrusts him with responsibility for Talbot's custody.
  • The Prince hears Edward's personal appeal, grants Talbot's release and commends Edward's consideration, extending their relationship through a substantial personal favour.

• Cope's landing at Dunbar threatens the Jacobite possession of Edinburgh; Charles Edward anticipates an advance to recover the city, while Fergus advocates battle rather than retreat.

  • Fergus confirms the intention to fight Cope, and the Prince orders preparations for the next day's march.
  • The Jacobite army leaves the King's Park, its guards withdraw from the castle's vicinity under occasional fire, and cavalry scouts go ahead to discover enemy movements.
  • The government army advances toward Edinburgh along the coast, an advance-post skirmish produces prisoners, and Charles Edward leads the Highland army toward an imminent engagement.
  • The armies deploy opposite one another, exchange artillery and skirmishing fire, and spend the night under arms without a general engagement.
  • The government army suffers complete defeat and disintegration, ending its immediate threat to Jacobite possession of Edinburgh.

• Edward seeks an early opportunity to demonstrate his zeal in Stuart service, declining immediate rank until he can raise a useful command and requesting service as a volunteer under Fergus.

  • Edward's refusal of an aide-de-camp appointment and the offer of a majority are reported; preparations for Highland service proceed, and he explains his acceptance of the Prince's proposal. No battlefield demonstration of zeal has yet occurred.
  • Edward agrees to march on foot and joins Fergus's followers in the departing army, putting his requested volunteer service into practice.
  • Edward joins Fergus's comrades and resumes the advancing column with battle expected shortly, bringing his requested opportunity for active service closer.
  • Edward enters battle with mounting enthusiasm and captures an enemy officer while protecting his life, providing an early occasion for active service.
  • Edward's battlefield conduct earns widespread praise, the Prince's compliments, and a new responsibility in Stuart service.
  • Edward gains campaigning endurance and some Highland language, then demonstrates military skill and wins esteem in Bradwardine's cavalry.

• Charles Edward directs Edward and Fergus to attend him that evening and proposes a merry gathering before battle.

  • Edward and Fergus attend the Prince's evening gathering, which proceeds through social entertainment to refreshments and attention to the next day's business.

• Fergus undertakes to equip Edward in Highland dress and arms suitable for his new position at court and in the Prince's service, ordering preparations within four hours.

  • The Highland clothing is completed and Edward wears it with satisfaction; completion of the promised arms and other equipment is not established.

• Donald disregards Fergus's instructions to perform a service and join him with his available force, choosing independent plunder that Fergus believes affects friends as well as enemies.

  • Donald's defection deprives Fergus of his allegiance and the expected service of at least thirty fighting men.
  • Donald's independent raiding ends in capture and execution, terminating his capacity to continue the disobedience.

• Fergus quarrels with Flora over her refusal to take leave of Edward and avoids requesting another interview for fear of renewing the quarrel.

• Bradwardine seeks an explanation of Edward's dismissal so that he can refute accusations against him.

• Bradwardine intends to raise a regiment of horse for the Prince and indicates that he would have welcomed Edward's service in it.

• Bradwardine undertakes the Prince's order to supervise packing at camp for the next day's march and leaves to attend to it.

• Bradwardine agrees to dine with Fergus and Edward at three, provided they wait for him.

  • Bradwardine arrives at the dinner gathering.

• James Needle seeks to finish Edward's Highland clothing quickly to escape Callum's restraint; the clothing is completed and Edward puts it on.

• Bradwardine insists that Duncan supply the agreed campaign money, rejecting offers of assistance from Fergus and Edward and threatening Duncan's continued employment if he substitutes borrowing for their arrangement.

• Duncan seeks Fergus's surplus money for investment at interest, then proposes arranging its transfer to Flora in anticipation of Fergus's possible death; no transfer is established.

• Fergus entrusts his remaining money to Flockhart with instructions contingent on his survival or death, including payment of mourners. Her grief leads her to refuse the trust, and he takes the money back and resolves to keep it.

• Bradwardine entrusts Rose's interests to Duncan should he die; moved by Rose's prospective loss of her father and estate, Duncan promises financial support and paid writing work for her.

• Fergus professes an intention to convert Flockhart to Catholicism or, failing that, Episcopalianism.

• Edward seeks to conceal his distress at Flora's rejection, demonstrate that it cannot depress him, and protect his reputation; his composure and brilliant conversation win general admiration.

• The Prince claims confidential knowledge and advises Edward to restrain his visible emotion, but Edward does not understand the warning's full purport.

  • The Prince's supposed confidential understanding is explained: he knew of Rose's love but mistakenly assumed Edward reciprocated and was engaged to her, accounting for his earlier warning.

• Edward's renewed hope in Stuart service is checked by his discovery that the army is poor, small and inadequately armed, leaving him discouraged by the disparity between its resources and its dynastic ambition.

  • Some English recruits join, but Edward recognizes that public hostility or indifference and absent Tory support further weaken the expedition's prospects.

• Highland chiefs compel reluctant dependants to enter military service.

• Other chiefs reclaim Fergus's occasional adherents, while a northern chief's intrigues further diminish his field force.

• The Highland army seeks an advantageous engagement by holding the heights, tracking the government's coastal advance and then marching toward the high ground above Tranent; Charles Edward publicly commits himself to combat.

  • The Highland commanders restrain an immediate downhill attack, reconnoitre by skirmishing, and send Fergus's detachment to threaten Cope's right flank. Cope counters with artillery and changes his line; the detachment returns to the ridge, while English advanced posts occupy the ditch below.
  • The offered route brings the Highland army through the morass onto the plain, where it deploys, attacks and wins the engagement.
  • The historical account explains how Anderson's remembered route through the marsh enabled the Highland army to reach the enemy and win the decisive engagement.

• Edward seeks to relieve Houghton's suffering and obtain surgical help, refusing to abandon him for the march; he provides water and assistance, but Houghton dies before medical treatment is secured.

• Houghton's death confronts Edward with the consequences of his neglected command, provoking grief, remorse and recognition that his thoughtlessness exposed his men to manipulation and punishment.

  • Edward's remorse extends to his injustice toward Gardiner, while Hodges supplies the fuller history of the manipulation and punishment of his men.

• Houghton asks Edward to care for his parents and refrain from fighting against England; Edward's acceptance or fulfilment of these dying requests remains unestablished.

  • Suitable financial provision fulfils Houghton's request that his parents be cared for; fulfilment of his separate request that Edward refrain from fighting England is not established here.

• Callum takes and conceals Houghton's cloak, intending to retrieve it for his mother Elspat if he returns that way.

• Facing his former troop and Gardiner, Edward experiences horror and divided loyalty between Stuart service and his countrymen; Fergus urges him to suppress these feelings by concentrating on his sword and the Prince who gave it.

  • Edward's concern for his opponents leads him to protect an English officer and attempt Gardiner's rescue; Gardiner's death and the reproach Edward remembers in his dying look deepen his distress.
  • Talbot's account of the consequences for Edward's family and Gardiner's revised judgment renews Edward's distress over his political position, leaving him mortified and abashed.

• Edward intends to stop Callum from shooting Gardiner; a seer's intervention independently induces Callum to abandon the immediate shot, removing the immediate danger.

• Bradwardine has an undisclosed trouble about which he intends to consult Fergus if the next day's battle goes well.

  • Bradwardine discloses his trouble as uncertainty over his house's feudal footwear service. Fergus's advice satisfies him, and he leaves with a definite plan for performing it while protecting his rights.

• Edward seeks to save an unsupported English officer during the assault; after an unsuccessful appeal for surrender, he prevents a fatal axe blow, obtains the officer's submission and orders humane custody, promising Dugald compensation for forgone spoil.

  • Edward confirms that the rescued officer is unharmed and unplundered, obtains limited freedom of movement for him, and arranges suitable accommodations; Talbot declines special treatment and remains a prisoner.

• Edward promises Dugald full compensation for relinquishing plunder while guarding the captured English officer; payment remains unestablished.

  • Dugald has protected the prisoner from plunder, and Edward renews his promise of a generous reward; payment is still unestablished.

• Edward urgently attempts to save the wounded Gardiner, but the press of Highlanders prevents his intervention before Gardiner receives further wounds and dies.

  • Gardiner's death confirms the failure of Edward's rescue attempt, and Edward grieves for him.

• Bradwardine seeks to preserve his house's honour and feudal rights by determining the proper footwear service owed to the Prince; Fergus resolves his doubts about the Regent's entitlement and the charter's application to brogues.

  • Bradwardine's hereditary claim is formally admitted and registered; he performs the homage and receives additional heraldic honours.

• Bradwardine intends to offer the Prince footwear service, accompanied by Macwheeble with a written protest protecting his feudal rights.

  • Bradwardine appears before the Prince with Duncan and discharges the required homage, which is formally certified.

• Fergus intends to visit headquarters to amuse and forewarn the Prince about Bradwardine's intended ceremony.

• Edward discovers that the officer he saved is Colonel Talbot, who owes a debt to Everard. Edward forgives Talbot's reproach and offers assistance, while Talbot's adverse judgment of Edward creates tension between them.

  • Edward rejoins the calmer Talbot, who accepts a commitment against escape without Edward's knowledge and postpones political controversy until they know each other better.
  • Edward confides his history and entrusts his letters to Talbot, whose judgment shifts from suspected malice to foolish entrapment and is supported by evidence of deception.
  • Talbot treats Edward more kindly, and Edward's fuller understanding of Talbot's character increases his esteem.
  • Concern for Talbot leads Edward to discover his private grief. Talbot confides in him, Edward offers to risk his life to secure Talbot's return, and Talbot rejects Edward's self-blame, deepening their personal attachment.
  • Talbot learns how Edward secured his release, declares lasting gratitude and promises restraint in censuring him.
  • Talbot demonstrates his commitment to Edward by staking his commission on the request for protection and personally guaranteeing Edward's future conduct.

• Talbot undertakes to rescue Edward from his political predicament out of obligation to Everard and persists despite Edward's resistance; Talbot's own captivity now constrains his efforts.

  • Talbot's journey to meet Edward and his intention to change Edward's political allegiance become explicit; he defers renewed argument while seeking closer acquaintance.
  • Talbot proposes a route to safety and pardon, assembles corroborating evidence of Edward's lack of authority for the mutiny, and successfully sends a material witness aboard an English warship.
  • Talbot reaffirms that gratitude and duty to Everard motivated his search for Edward and refuses to hold Edward responsible for its domestic consequences.
  • Talbot seeks papers that might help Edward, renews his appeal for Edward to leave the cause and departs captivity, removing the constraint on his ability to assist.
  • Talbot protects Edward, communicates his partial exoneration, seeks a remission, and secures money, an escort and a borrowed identity for his northern journey.
  • Talbot overcomes the royal duke's initial refusal and obtains Edward's protection, securing immediate safety while leaving the formal pardon to be pleaded.

• Edward learns that suspicion arising from his conduct has exposed Richard and Everard to treason proceedings. Talbot has secured Everard's release from custody, but the proceedings remain unresolved.

  • Edward learns that both Richard and Everard were imprisoned on his account. Both obtain release on bail, but the underlying proceedings are not established as ended.
  • Evidence supports Edward's exoneration from instigating the troop conspiracy, and he prepares an account for Richard and Everard; no termination of their treason proceedings is established.
  • Edward learns that Richard has died after facing treason suspicion and that Everard reportedly faces trial. The reported offer to spare Everard if Edward surrenders prompts Edward's resolve to intervene personally.
  • Everard is confirmed safe at home and the alarming report is false. Richard has died, and Talbot rejects the newspaper's explanation of his death.

• Edward undertakes to meet Talbot again after being summoned to attend the Prince.

  • Edward returns to Preston and rejoins Talbot.

• Fergus commits to finding a means of assuring Edward's relatives that Edward is safe.

  • Edward prepares a written account addressed to Richard and Everard, advancing communication with his relatives, although Fergus's involvement and delivery are not established.
  • Edward asks the departing Talbot to carry affectionate greetings to Everard and Rachel and speak indulgently of him, providing a means of communication without establishing that Fergus fulfilled his undertaking.

• The Prince places Talbot in Edward's custody, directing Edward to house him, secure parole or a guard, and ascertain his political disposition. Edward seeks exemption from restraining Talbot if he refuses parole; Talbot subsequently promises not to attempt escape without Edward's knowledge.

  • Edward and Talbot return to Edinburgh, where the Prince supplies lodging with accommodation for Talbot, implementing the housing part of the custody arrangement.
  • Edward offers to end Talbot's parole so he can return home, but Talbot refuses an unauthorized discharge on grounds of their mutual obligations; the custody arrangement therefore remains in force pending further discussion.
  • Edward reports Talbot's opposition to the Stuart cause. The Prince authorizes his departure and offers to waive parole, but Talbot voluntarily undertakes not to bear arms against the Stuarts for twelve months and departs.

• Talbot urges Edward to withdraw honourably from the rebellion, seek safety in Flanders and obtain a pardon; Edward's agreement is not established.

  • Edward abandons further military service and plans continental escape through Scotland, while Talbot seeks a remission; neither passage abroad nor a pardon is secured.

• Donald steals Edward's seal and recruits his troopers under Edward's supposed authority, initially mistaking Edward for a covert Stuart intriguer and later pursuing Jacobite rewards independently. Talbot and Edward uncover the deception through letters and testimony.

  • Donald's confession supplies authoritative confirmation of the intrigue with Houghton and clears Edward of complicity in the mutiny and neglect of duty.

• Talbot seeks to preserve Hodges as a witness rather than let him resume Edward's service, arranging his passage toward England; Hodges successfully reaches an English warship.

• Edward seeks to cultivate acquaintance between Talbot and his former intimates, but Talbot refuses further visits and Edward abandons the attempt.

• Flora instructs Rose, developing her knowledge, taste and understanding.

• After discovering Rose's love for Edward, Flora determines to reject him finally and redirect his courtship toward Rose.

  • Flora's intended redirection gains ground: Edward relinquishes her courtship, increasingly appreciates Rose and considers pursuing her conditionally.
  • Flora's rejection produces Edward's final abandonment of her courtship; no redirection toward Rose is established here.

• Fergus and Corrinaschian quarrel over precedence between clan cadets; shared laughter interrupts their quarrel without establishing a settlement.

• Fergus seeks immediate recognition of his earldom, but the Prince wants its assumption deferred to avoid alienating a rival clan chief. Fergus offers to obtain written acquiescence to his precedence and reacts to the audience with rage and disappointment.

• The Prince presses Bradwardine to set aside the male heir and settle the estate on Rose; Bradwardine appears reconciled to the proposal.

  • The retrospective account establishes Bradwardine's agreement to settle the estate upon Rose, beyond his previously apparent willingness.
  • Rose's marriage settlement secures Edward's purchase advance to her and her children. Bradwardine explicitly directs a further succession settlement favouring Rose, Edward and their male heirs, and Duncan undertakes its preparation.

• Fergus intends to marry Rose and assume his earldom so that he need not take the Bradwardine name. His attempt to obtain the Prince's support is blocked by the Prince's promise to favour Rose's existing attachment.

  • The Prince refuses Fergus's request for Rose and an earldom, believes Edward engaged to her, and seeks to defer the rivalry.

• Believing without confirmation that the Prince intends Rose for a French or Irish officer, Fergus resolves to watch suspected rivals and seek vengeance.

  • Fergus directs his jealousy toward Edward, whom he believes to be Rose's accepted lover. Edward denies the engagement, the Prince acknowledges that his own misconception caused Fergus's resentment, and a formal reconciliation ends the immediate pursuit of vengeance.

• Edward intends to tell Fergus that he relinquishes his suit for Flora.

  • Edward tells Fergus explicitly and unequivocally that he relinquishes Flora's courtship.

• Edward considers courting Rose, but leaves any pursuit contingent on circumstances and the failure of Fergus's suit.

  • Fergus now urges Edward to marry Rose, removing his personal opposition as a competing suitor, although Edward makes no recorded commitment to court her.
  • Edward recognizes his dependence on Rose for happiness and makes her a reason for returning to Scotland. Talbot accepts the proposed match and promises to consult Everard.
  • Edward defers seeking permission to court Rose amid Bradwardine's present distress and prospective exile.
  • Learning his debt to Rose turns Edward's contingent consideration into an active prospect of marriage and a shared life supported by his independent means; he then seeks Duncan.
  • Edward declares his intention to marry Rose. Macwheeble guarantees her and Bradwardine's consent and prepares to draft an agreement, but Edward considers a contract premature. Talbot confirms Edward's family's support.
  • Edward explicitly seeks Rose's hand, obtains her father's welcome and establishes Everard's approval; Rose and Edward become betrothed.

• Emily believes a false report of Talbot's death and falls ill; their newborn child dies shortly after birth. Talbot's letter corrects the report and revives her spirits, but her health remains in serious danger, leaving Talbot grieving and anxious in captivity.

  • Talbot prepares to return to Emily and begins his journey, but neither his arrival nor any improvement in her health is established.
  • Emily has recovered her health, ending the continuing medical danger, though the child's death remains irreversible.

• Edward attributes Talbot's domestic calamity to the expedition undertaken to find him and feels horror and guilt; Talbot explicitly denies that Edward bears blame.

• Edward commits to enabling Talbot's immediate return to Emily, offering to release him from parole and accept the personal consequences even at risk of death. Talbot refuses this discharge as incompatible with both men's obligations, and further discussion is deferred until tomorrow.

  • Edward obtains the Prince's authorization for Talbot's release, arranges transport and escorts him to Leith, where Talbot boards the boat.

• Talbot plans to land at Berwick or Shields and ride post to London to reach Emily.

• Talbot asks Edward to entrust any recovered papers to him for possible use in Edward's favour.

• Charles Edward undertakes an invasion of central England; the Jacobite army captures Carlisle and continues south despite limited English support.

  • The army abandons further advance into England and begins retreating northward from Derby.
  • Charles Edward's determination to advance from Derby to London does not prevail; expected English support remains conditional and the army retreats to avoid interception.

• Edward and Fergus quarrel over Edward's final refusal to renew his courtship of Flora, ending their intimacy; Fergus desires a mortal duel and watches for an opportunity for revenge.

  • The quarrel escalates into drawn swords after Fergus accuses Edward of abandoning Flora for Rose's inheritance. The Prince corrects the underlying misconception, obtains their submission to arbitration and brings about a reluctant handshake. The immediate quarrel is settled without establishing restored intimacy.
  • Fergus acknowledges his mistake and seeks reconciliation before his expected death; Edward forgives him and both sincerely restore their friendship.

• Fergus resolves to obtain Flora's account before accepting that her proposed marriage to Edward is finally abandoned.

  • Flora's reply establishes that she never intended to encourage Edward, and Fergus abandons the mistaken understanding behind the quarrel.

• Edward seeks and obtains transfer from Fergus's regiment to Bradwardine's cavalry, where he assists as a sort of adjutant.

• Bradwardine attempts to reconcile Edward and Fergus, but neither cooperates; Charles Edward promises a personal remonstrance with Fergus, delayed by the march.

  • Bradwardine intervenes before the duel, and Charles Edward personally mediates, discovers and corrects his own mistaken report of Edward's engagement, and secures formal reconciliation.

• Edward earns strong personal attachment and esteem for his military skill among Bradwardine's cavalry.

• Mac-Ivor clansmen believe Edward insulted Flora and threaten his life; Callum attempts to shoot him. Fergus strikes Callum down after verifying the accusation, and the Prince subsequently requires Fergus to explain the misunderstanding to his clan and prevent further violence.

  • Edward rejoins the clan arm-in-arm with Fergus and apparently regains its goodwill, including Evan's and Callum's; the recorded resentment appears to subside.

• Fergus's clansmen and Bradwardine's cavalry approach armed confrontation over the dispute between their officers. The Prince stops them, restores their formations and resumes the march.

• Fergus promises exemplary punishment for Callum and obtains the Prince's permission to dispose of him through clan justice; Callum's survival and ultimate punishment remain unestablished.

  • Callum is killed by an English trooper, making Fergus's promised punishment impossible; no execution of clan justice is established.
  • Callum's death at Clifton is confirmed, making Fergus's proposed punishment impossible.

• Edward and Fergus commit to submitting every difference between them to Charles Edward's arbitration.

• Fergus accepts the Prince's instruction to explain the misunderstanding to his clan and prevent renewed violence against Edward; fulfilment is not established.

  • The clan's apparent acceptance of Edward supports the intended reconciliation, although Fergus's promised explanation is not explicitly recorded.

• The Highland chiefs abandon the advance into England and retreat northward, while Cumberland's cavalry pursues them.

  • The Jacobite army withdraws through Penrith into Scotland toward Glasgow, while Cumberland occupies the approaches and obtains the surrender of Carlisle's remaining rebel garrison.
  • The historical account elaborates the northern retreat, Murray's rear-guard command, Cumberland's pursuit and the successful return of the artillery to Penrith.

• Fergus attempts to persuade the chiefs against retreat; rejection of his advice leaves him deeply mortified.

• Fergus urges Edward to escape abroad, marry Rose and protect Flora, but Edward explicitly refuses to abandon the expedition.

• Fergus believes an apparent encounter with the Bodach Glas foretells his death or capture. Edward initially attributes the experience to exhaustion and superstition, but the subsequent danger makes him entertain the prediction's truth.

  • Fergus reports another apparition of the Bodach Glas before his execution. The priest offers a qualified explanation, while Edward refrains from disputing Fergus's belief; the apparition's objective reality remains unestablished.

• Ian nan Chaistel and Halbert Hall's expeditionary alliance breaks into violence over booty, ending with Hall and his Lowland followers killed.

• Edward offers to march with Fergus's corps to divert his distress; Fergus accepts while requiring Edward's horse to remain ready for escape.

• The Highland rear-guard engages English cavalry at Clifton. Fergus's charge initially drives back the dragoons, but reinforcements force a withdrawal and leave Highlanders isolated, including Fergus, Evan and Callum under attack.

  • The Clifton engagement has ended and the armies have moved on. The battlefield reveals casualties, including Callum's death, but does not establish whether Fergus and Evan escaped or were captured.

• Separated from Fergus, Edward seeks aid for his endangered friends and a route back to the rear-guard; cavalry encounters impede him, and reaching an enclosure leaves their fate unknown.

  • Edward attempts to evade English troops and obtain a horse and guide, but the Jacobite withdrawal, military occupation of the routes and prolonged snowfall prevent his return to his friends.
  • Edward reports attempting to rejoin the army but abandons further military service; the rescue effort ends without establishing Fergus's or Evan's fate.

• Jacob Jopson shelters Edward from Cumberland's soldiers, and Ned Williams guides him in country dress to refuge at his father's farm, where a fabricated family identity dispels the yeomanry's suspicion.

  • The refuge ends with Edward's voluntary departure from his sympathetic hosts, without any reported discovery by the pursuing authorities.

• Edward seeks Fergus's body to arrange his burial, but finds neither Fergus nor Evan among the dead and leaves their fate uncertain when a burial party approaches.

  • The report that Fergus was captured alive supersedes Edward's search for his body; his friend's threatened execution creates a different predicament.

• Edward hopes never again to participate in civil warfare and judges his romantic phase of life ended as he gains greater self-mastery.

  • Edward explicitly regards his campaign as ended and relinquishes further military service.
  • Witnessing the devastation of civil war deepens Edward's loss of youthful illusions, strengthening his practical wisdom and self-confidence while leaving lasting sadness.

• Edward gains the affection and sympathy of his Fasthwaite hosts, conceals his circumstances by describing his loss as a brother's death, and leaves promising remembrance and hoping to repay their kindness.

  • Edward offers Jopson a silver tankard, Emily undertakes to choose Mrs. Williams a keepsake, and Talbot promises Jopson horses. Delivery of the gifts is not established.

• Edward Williams and Cicely Jopson marry, with Twigtythe officiating.

• Edward resolves to protect Everard through personal sacrifice and urgently travels to London after reading that his surrender could spare his uncle.

  • Edward reaches London and learns that Everard is safe and the report prompting his intended sacrifice was false.

• Mrs. Nosebag's intrusive inquiries and military acquaintances threaten Edward's concealment during his journey. Her mistaken identification of him as Butler helps him pass as a serving officer, but her public attentions and introduction to a sergeant of his former regiment increase his anxiety.

  • Nosebag discovers the Butler identity is false and intends to inform against Edward. Spontoon obtains a delay, allowing Edward to leave under a different identity, but the threat is not definitively removed.

• Talbot shelters Edward as his sick relation Frank Stanley while seeking a remission; threatened exposure prompts an escorted northern journey using Stanley's passport.

  • Edward continues concealing his identity and leaves Talbot a letter under his assumed name with a forwarding address, preserving their means of contact.
  • Talbot's attempt to obtain Edward's pardon remains pending and determines whether Edward will accompany Bradwardine into exile.
  • Edward continues using Stanley's identity and passport. Talbot obtains official protection by offering to surrender his commission if refused, pledges Edward's future conduct, and sends the document with instructions for obtaining a pardon.
  • Edward retains Stanley's identity, reaches Talbot in Edinburgh and plans to seek his formal pardon in London; Talbot undertakes his delegated commissions.

• Edward remains liable to arrest under government proclamations and warrants, despite being cleared of neglect of duty and complicity in his regiment's mutiny.

  • Recognition threatens Edward's assumed identity in Edinburgh, and troops near Tully-Veolan force him to avoid the village to escape questioning and interception.
  • The royal duke grants Edward protection, ending his immediate exposure to proscription, but Edward must still plead his formal pardon in London.
  • Lawyers actively pursue Edward's pardon, but its grant is not recorded.

• Edward withholds his quarrel with Fergus from Talbot and Emily to avoid reinforcing Talbot's prejudice against Highlanders.

• Edward chooses to return to Scotland to seek passage to the Continent and attend to Rose.

  • Edward reaches Scotland and proceeds to Tully-Veolan to seek Rose despite the danger. Passage to the Continent remains unarranged.
  • Edward confirms Rose's safety and conditionally agrees to accompany Bradwardine to France if his pardon fails, while postponing his courtship intentions.
  • Edward's intention to attend to Rose develops into a concrete vision of marrying her and living together at home or abroad, followed by his search for Duncan.
  • Edward reaches Rose and becomes her accepted suitor; his stated next journey concerns marriage arrangements and a pardon rather than passage abroad.

• Talbot promises to obtain Everard's opinion of Edward's proposed marriage to Rose and expects to follow Edward to Scotland.

  • Talbot has followed Edward north and reports that Edward's family favours his proposed courtship of Rose.

• Richard appoints Talbot trustee for Edward's benefit against the risk of attainder; Talbot administers Edward's inheritance and supplies funds for his journey.

• Edward and Frank Stanley quickly become friends, sharing accounts and demonstrations of Edward's Highland experiences before Stanley accompanies him for one stage.

  • Frank Stanley supports Edward at his wedding by coming to act as bridesman.
  • Edward's accounts foster Stanley's enthusiasm for Highland culture, and Stanley's description of Bradwardine's cup helps Talbot recover it.

• Flockhart recognizes Edward, promises not to betray him and provides refuge through her hospitality.

• Fergus and Evan are government prisoners; Fergus reportedly faces trial and execution, while Edward learns that his missing friends survived the fighting.

  • Macwheeble confirms that Fergus remains imprisoned in Carlisle Castle and will shortly stand trial for his life; Evan's circumstances receive no further clarification.
  • Fergus and Evan are convicted and attainted of high treason and sentenced to execution the next day. Fergus declines to plead for his life, and Evan refuses conditional mercy.
  • Both prisoners are transferred for execution. The confessor confirms Fergus's death, and the subsequent report of the executed men's displayed heads establishes the fatal outcome for both.

• Flora stays near Carlisle to remain close to her imprisoned brother.

  • Flora remains near Carlisle and is among those permitted to visit Fergus, but now plans to leave the next day for Paris.

• Government troops devastate Bradwardine's estate and Rose's possessions, leaving the household dispersed and Davie impoverished, undernourished and frightened.

  • A court order checks the ordered devastation, but Bradwardine loses possession under the entail and the mansion's furniture is dispersed among cottages.
  • Bradwardine's grief at his ruined ancestral house and Edward's sight of his cramped refuge make the household's continuing dispossession explicit.
  • Rose's lost maternal diamonds are identified as having passed to Donald; Rachel supplies magnificent wedding jewels.
  • Bradwardine regains his restored estate, household service, furnishings, plate and ancestral cup, reversing the household's dispossession and material devastation.

• Edward seeks the fate of the Tully-Veolan household; Davie's unverified report of their deaths intensifies his fear, but following Davie leads him to Bradwardine alive. Rose's fate remains unconfirmed.

  • Edward learns that Rose is safe at Duchran and receives further news of the household's circumstances.

• Malcolm takes possession of Tully-Veolan under the entail and intends to deny Bradwardine any benefit. Tenants resent him, an unidentified shooter fires at him, and his accusation that Bradwardine abets assassins brings soldiers to hunt Bradwardine.

  • The account confirms Malcolm's legal entitlement through Bradwardine's attainder; Bradwardine's personal pardon does not restore the estate.
  • Malcolm sells the estate following Duncan's pressure, and Bradwardine is restored as proprietor, ending Malcolm's control and exclusion of him.

• After fleeing to Stirling, Malcolm advertises Tully-Veolan for sale.

  • The advertised sale is completed through Duncan's management using Edward's advance.

• Janet and Davie protect the fugitive Bradwardine: Janet misidentifies him to soldiers, and Davie's appearance in his discarded mantle makes the deception convincing.

  • Janet's refuge continues to support Bradwardine's concealment: he returns to his cave and arranges another meeting at her house.

• Bradwardine plans to flee to France and seek military employment; Edward agrees to accompany him if Talbot cannot obtain his pardon.

  • Bradwardine receives present protection and a promise of pardon, while Edward also receives protection. These developments reduce the immediate need for their proposed flight to France, although formal pardons remain outstanding.
  • The pardon removes the need for Bradwardine's proposed flight to France; he travels to Duchran and reunites with Rose.

• Macwheeble attempts to preserve assets for Rose while secretly supplying Bradwardine and his dogs through Janet.

  • Bradwardine supplies Duncan's whereabouts, and Edward sets out to find him, opening direct contact with the agent already working to preserve Rose's interests.
  • Duncan's protection of Rose's interests culminates in managing the estate's repurchase and securing the purchase advance to Rose for life and her children thereafter.

• Tenants quietly support the fugitive Bradwardine, apparently knowing his hiding place and leaving useful supplies while keeping children away.

• Bradwardine arranges to meet Edward again at Janet's that evening.

  • Edward returns through Janet's cottage and meets Bradwardine at his hiding place.

• Rose's kindness wins Alice's affection and gratifies Donald's paternal pride; Alice and Rose cooperate to return Edward's papers without Donald's knowledge.

• Charles Edward seeks to defer the rivalry over Rose until the expedition ends, appearing neutral while mistakenly believing Edward reciprocates her love and is effectively engaged to her.

• Macwheeble seeks to conceal reminders of his participation in the Jacobite expedition after withdrawing from the party and losing his offices.

• Edward and Macwheeble secure local recognition of Edward's passport under Stanley's identity by submitting it to Captain Foster; Edward declines Foster's dinner invitation.

• Macwheeble promises to arrange a safe, unsuspected introduction for Edward at Duchran, where Talbot authorizes Edward to spend a week before seeking his formal pardon in London.

  • Macwheeble's arrangements culminate in Edward and Bradwardine reaching Duchran.

• Rubrick undertakes to shelter Bradwardine at his house until the country is settled, under the royal duke's protection and promise of a future pardon.

  • Bradwardine reaches Duchran with his pardon already secured, fulfilling the intended protection without continued concealment.
  • The promised pursuit of Bradwardine's pardon proceeds through lawyers, although the pardon itself is not established.

• Edward plans to arrange his marriage at Waverley-Honour, seek his pardon in London, and return promptly to marry Rose.

  • Marriage preparations and generous settlements are arranged, and Edward returns to marry Rose. His pardon remains under pursuit rather than explicitly granted.

• Edward seeks to learn Fergus's fate, visit him at Carlisle and obtain clemency or mitigation. Talbot refuses intervention as both unavailing and contrary to conscience, closing that avenue.

  • Edward reaches Carlisle, funds the prisoners' legal defence and learns their sentence. Restrictions initially prevent his final visit, but permission is secured for the next morning; neither the visit nor mitigation has yet occurred.
  • Edward obtains his final visit and learns Fergus's fate conclusively; the execution ends any remaining possibility of clemency or mitigation.

• Edward intends, if necessary, to offer Flora shelter with Rose or other assistance.

  • Edward visits Flora and urges her to accept Rose as an adopted sister and helper. Flora has already secured a convent retreat and plans to depart, without accepting the proposed assistance.

• Talbot intends to remain in Edinburgh for several months on Cumberland's business; Emily plans to join him under Francis Stanley's escort.

• Evan seeks to save Fergus by offering his own execution and those of five further clansmen in exchange for Fergus's release; the court sentences both men to death.

  • Evan's proposed sacrifice does not secure Fergus's release; both are taken to execution and Fergus dies.

• The judge conditionally offers to seek mercy for Evan if he petitions, but Evan refuses mercy while Fergus is to die.

  • Evan proceeds to execution alongside Fergus without any established acceptance of the judge's conditional offer of mercy.

• Fergus's solicitor undertakes to obtain Edward admission for a final prison visit; Edward subsequently learns that he may visit the next morning until the Sheriff arrives.

  • The promised admission is obtained, allowing Edward a final interview and farewell before the Sheriff takes custody.

• Flora blames her encouragement of Fergus's Jacobite commitment for his ruin; Edward counters her self-accusation, but her grief culminates in collapse before she regains composure.

  • Edward reports Flora's distress to Fergus; after Fergus's death, the confessor finds her more composed, without establishing that her self-blame has ended.

• Flora entrusts her diamond hair chain, her sole valuable ornament, to Edward for delivery as a gift to Rose.

• Flora plans to leave the next day with the religious sister for a secured retreat at the Scottish Benedictine convent in Paris and requests no further visit from Edward.

  • The confessor plans to accompany Flora and Theresa the following day to a seaport and France; their departure and arrival at the convent remain unestablished.

• Edward promises to protect distressed Mac-Ivors and subsequently fulfils the promise through ample assistance, earning their enduring remembrance.

• Fergus and Evan attempt to escape imprisonment, nearly succeeding before stricter precautions prevent their release.

• Edward wishes to accompany Fergus beyond the castle, but Fergus insists that Edward must not witness his execution; Edward remains behind.

• Fergus resolves to spare Flora a final meeting and have his confessor deliver a letter after his death.

• Edward provides a valuable ring and money to the confessor for Catholic memorial services for Fergus.

• Edward resolves never to enter Carlisle again after Fergus's execution.

• Edward undertakes to communicate Fergus's death gently to Rose, while writing to her eases his own grief.

• Clippurse takes Hookem into partnership in his legal business.

• The Houghtons mistakenly believe their son died fighting beside Edward; Alick attempts to correct them but is forbidden to continue, leaving their consoling belief intact.

• Talbot and Emily intend to attend Edward and Rose's wedding, but Emily's health prevents their visit.

• Edward, Rose and Bradwardine plan to travel immediately to Waverley-Honour, visiting Talbot's newly purchased Scottish estate on the way; Talbot intends to reside there for some time.

  • The wedding party travels and meets Talbot and Emily at Tully-Veolan. Talbot reveals that his actual purchase is Brere-wood Lodge near Waverley-Honour; arrival at Waverley-Honour is not recorded.

• The restoration of Bradwardine's estate and heirlooms strengthens his gratitude and attachment to Edward, Talbot and Emily; he publicly honours Talbot for recovering the ancestral cup.

• Duncan undertakes to prepare a charter settling Bradwardine's estate after his death on Rose, Edward and their male heirs, preferably a second son bearing only Bradwardine's name and arms.

• A historical Highland gentleman and royal officer protect one another; the officer insists on repaying the protection he received.

• John Home and his fellow prisoners undertake an escape from Doune Castle using ropes made from bedclothes. A rope breaks, but Thomas Barrow attempts the shortened descent, suffers serious injuries and is carried away by his companions.

• Jacobite Highlanders search for the escaped prisoners, and Stewart of Balloch rides through the countryside pursuing them.

• English Jacobite families condition their promised support for Charles Edward on his arrival with French military assistance; without that assistance they consider the obligation inapplicable and dread his advance to Derby.

• Divisions among Jacobite chiefs and between Scots and influential Irish officers weaken the army and contribute to its overthrow.

• Gardiner attempts to rally his fleeing regiment, then undertakes to lead unsupported infantry despite his wounds; Highland attackers bring him down and inflict a mortal blow.

• Gardiner's attendant urges him to retreat, but Gardiner continues fighting and eventually directs the attendant to save himself.

• A Perthshire cavalryman pursues fleeing dragoons, but their officers induce a temporary stand; recognizing how few pursuers they face, the dragoons kill him.

• Critics accuse the narrator of portraying Charles Edward too favourably.

• Lord Elcho urges Charles Edward to charge with the intact left wing at Culloden, then breaks with him bitterly and keeps a vow never to see him again.

• Charles Edward undertakes to address an Edinburgh citizen's representations about the city's tent obligation and grants all the requested concessions.

• Advocates propose securing a prisoner-exchange cartel through threats of retaliatory executions, but Charles Edward refuses to threaten or kill prisoners in cold blood.

• Charles Edward resolves to halt at Penrith to refresh the army and await its artillery, ordering a morning review to establish the remaining strength.

• Cluny and Murray undertake to protect the artillery's passage at Clifton Bridge, attacking Cumberland's pursuing cavalry; Charles Edward orders Nairne to support them, and the force returns to Penrith with the artillery in good order.

• Wounded Macphersons captured after the action are forcibly transported to America into slavery; some subsequently return.

• Saint Paul makes a meeting conditional on Louis XI's binding oath of safe conduct; Louis refuses that oath, and negotiations for the conference collapse.

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