368 MACPHERSON AND THE NAIRNE PAPERS July obtained the use of those papers of Thomas Carte which had not been given to the Bodleian Library. One of the publishers of Macpherson's Original Papers ^ was T. Cadell. In the Bodleian Library is an ' Abridged Index of the Papers delivered this 13 Feby. 1773 to Mr. Cadell, taken from my little book, (signed) N. Jernegan '.^ The index contains a general description of some of the papers and a particular mention of others. It merely refers to the reports of Jacobite agents in England to St. Germain, but contains two definite entries relevant to this subject : ' Names of persons of quality in England who answer for the counties where they have interest, being in the King's favour ' ; and
- Traduction d'une Lettre de Sacfield avec une de milord Churchill,
3 May 1694, au Roi, I'informant de la destination de la flotte angloise '.^ These are obvious references to ' the Sunderland Memorial ' (e), and to ' the Camaret Bay draft ' (t). Furthermore, there is in the archives of the university of Oxford a series of letters and documents * relating to an attempt by the curators of the Bodleian Library to secure the remainder of Carte's papers soon after the death of Mrs. Jernegan (March 1769). The curators nominated Thomas Monkhouse* to inspect the Carte papers in Jernegan's possession. Monkhouse drew up an abstract of the papers, which is preserved in the university archives, and which proves that he examined the volumes con- taining the Nairne MSS. One of the entries in this abstract is :
- Ld. Churchil and Ld. Godolphin's promises to the King.' This
refers to ' the Lloyd Report ' (^). At the meeting of the curators on 14 December 1770, it was decided that 'the Bodleian Chest is not in circumstances to advance moneys in purchase of papers of this kind '.« Jernegan then lent the papers to the earl of Hardwicke, who paid £200 for the perusal of them.' Hardwicke used them for some of the notes he added to Burnet's History of My Own Time. In a note on Burnet's account of Fenwick's attainder he remarked : It is probable that the resentment of the whigs against sir J. Fenwick, for levelling his discoveries almost entirely against their party, was the true cause of this extraordinary proceeding by bill of attainder. Some of « 2 vols., 1775. » Carte MS. 278. » Carte MS. 278, fo. viiL
- I am greatly indebted to the Keeper of the Archives both for information of the
existence of these papers and for permission to utilize them for this article.
- Fellow of Queen's College, and editor of the third volume of the Clarendon
State Poper* (1786).
- Manuscript minutes in the university archives. Another letter in the same collec-
tion reveals the important fact that Carte's papers were bound up before even Jernegan possessed them. This would make it difficult for Macpherson, when he had the volumes, to forge or suppress any papers, more especially as each document was numbered. ' Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, ii. 514.
