]> 2026-08-14T22:55:05+00:00 Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670 3100 en GD314/670 Item Draft/copy correspondence from the Earl of Home concerning the defence of Scotland against the Jacobite 'rebels'. (30 items). Includes:- (9) 1745 November 25 To the Lord Justice Clerk: 'I was informed this morning [tha]t a party of the Rebels were... to pass at Calder Bridge... I immediately order'd to beat to Arms & apply'd to the Provost for horses to mount fifty Dragoons, but it was near two o'Clock before I cou'd have them, I sett out at that time... but was not able to come up with them, I pursued them to a place called Fintry....' (10) 1745 November 25 To the Lord Justice Clerk: 'I cant say I have found the magistrates so ready or willing to arm as I expected which is not owing to their want of Zeal but to fearfulness, they are told of Great Numbers of Highlanders being to come from the North this way nor can I persuade them of the Smalness of that danger...' (18) 1745 December 7 To the Earl of Ross, Glasgow: 'the Arms are here [Glasgow] & if two hundred men will come here they shall have Arms compleat with ammunition deliverd to them. As to the necisarys I dont see anything wanting but a good pair of shoes.' (27) 1745 December 13 To the Lord Justice Clerk: 'I have a very troublesome command as the volonteer officers dont much care to do anything but what is agreeable to them, they are vastly affronted upon account of their being quarter'd out of town....' NRS GD314/670 7 December 1745 Records of Strathern and Blair, WS, solicitors, Edinburgh document National Records of Scotland 1745-12-07Z 2358748.5 NRS, GD314/670 documents 2025-07-21T20:04:36Z 2460878.3365278 NRS catalogue entry GD314/670 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[:Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] [[Has person subject::+]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY659db5f61d5a0abe9cf6e4ac7df22a86 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[:Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] [[Has place subject::+]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY514f36785897d053cec9d1dcd2b28f37 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[:Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] [[Has related document::+]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY5d117c49ed31e115399475d0b61cccad 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[:Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] [[Has related topic::+]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY3d7fd029864c6b2ca5d421db47ca5fc2 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[:Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] [[Has name::+]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY54d16437e93d6f85811acb72231e3753 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[:Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] [[Has place::+]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY4a260d8bbe19bc9c41721ee75fcc3a43 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[-Has subobject::Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERYa86638692267c4e1866843801ce45a2f 3100 1 plainlist 3 [[:+]] [[Has NRS reference::GD314/670]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERYc89b1da403151e16805fa7ee117662fd 3100 0 plainlist 1 [[:Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY79a43167ee7a63059bcf44bb2d8b4186 3100 1 plainlist 2 [[-Has subobject::Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY361c9cece871254ed222d5038b05b5eb 3100 1 ul 5 [[:+]] [[Has document type::book]] [[Has NRS reference::GD314/670]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY654dd7087b83109756cb3796c62b41bd 3100 1 plainlist 5 [[Source:+]] [[Include in source page::Source:NRS catalogue entry GD314/670]] [[Include in page section::documents]] NRS catalogue entry GD314/670# QUERY1efeba5c8882ec0eaa82d0eca9e04543 3100 [https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD314/670 "GD314/670"]. ''National Records of Scotland''. Nov 9, 2007. NRS GD314/670 correspondence 0 7 December 1745 1745-12-07Z 2358748.5 Timeline 7 December 1745 - Correspondence from the Earl of Home to the Earl of Ross, Glasgow, concerning the defence of Scotland against the Jacobite 'rebels': “the Arms are here [Glasgow] & if two hundred men will come here they shall have Arms compleat with ammunition deliverd to them. As to the necisarys I dont see anything wanting but a good pair of shoes.” NRS catalogue entry GD314/670#Main