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263:, the Stuart heir, began assembling weapons and transport for an alternative landing in Scotland. Heavily dependent on promises of support from a small number of clan chiefs in the western Highlands, it ignored their stipulation this was conditional on the supply of regular French troops, money and weapons. MacDonell was sent to Scotland in spring 1745 to meet with the Jacobite chiefs who reiterated their opposition to his arrival without substantial support. By the time MacDonnell returned, Charles had already sailed.
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311:. He was tried and executed in June but using the warrant issued in 1746, supposedly to conceal the source of the information. The betrayal of the plot also coincided with the resumption of Prince Charles's affair with
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