An historical novel as gripping as Scott's Ivanhoe. It is a tale of adventure in the 18th century, set in the Scottish highlands, whose hero is the legendary maverick outlaw Rob Roy Macgregor.

An historical novel as gripping as Scott's Ivanhoe. It is a tale of adventure in the 18th century, set in the Scottish highlands, whose hero is the legendary maverick outlaw Rob Roy Macgregor.

This book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy.

Lord Winton was taken prisoner in the Battle of Preston, and although he was sentenced to death, he escaped from the Tower to France and died in Rome, December 19, 1749. Cf. DNB.

An attack on the Jacobites, occasioned by the Rebellion of 1715.