Centre for Scottish Studies
2021 B.C. Highland Games
Hidden Stories of the Jacobites: The “Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes
Leith Davis (Director, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Scottish Studies) with Sheila Allan (fiddle), Scott Alpen (bodhran), and Rob McGregor (octave mandolin)
Programme
Band: Dashing White Sergeant/Fairy Reel
Introduction
Band: Charlie He’s My Darling
1. From the “Journal of the Prince's imbarkation and arrival” “the greatest part of which was taken from Duncan Cameron at several different conversations I had with him”
Band: Atholl Highlanders
2. From the “Journal of the Prince's imbarkation and arrival” and Charles’s letter to his father, James Stuart, after the battle of Gladsmuir/Prestonpans
Band: Miss Thompson’s D/Miss Shepherd’s
3. Testimony by Mrs. Robertson, Lady Inches, from a conversation with Forbes taken down Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 25, 1747,
Band: Mist Covered Mountains
4. Testimony of Donald MacLeod
Band: The new Rigg’d Ship
5. From the “Journal taken from the mouth of MISS FLORA MACDONALD by DR. BURTON of YORK, when in Edinburgh”
Band: Over the Sea to Skye
6. Letter to Forbes from Anne Leith
Band: Mrs. Jamieson’s Favourite
7. The story of Anne McKay
Band: Temple Hill/Miss McLeod’s
8. Conclusion:
Soldier’s Joy/Red-Haired Boy