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Hi HOUSE OF GORDON.
Five ; and a Gordon case of the same kind is illustrated by the lairds of
Avochie and of Logic, as follows : —
Of 103 Gordons who rose, 24 took part in the Fifteen and 79 in
the Forty-Five. This figure makes eight more than are cited in Lord
Rosebery's List, which gives the following figures out of a total of 780 : —
. 52 Mackenzie . . 32
. 41 Macpherson . . 29
. 41 Farquharson . . 25
. 33 Forbes . . .11
Out of the 85 men excepted by the Act of Pardon of 1747 (20 Geo. II.,
cap. 52), there were seven Gordons — more than appertained to any
other surname.
Taken in districts, the 103 Gordons in this section of the present
work are arranged as follows : —
The effect of the rebellions on professional soldiering was, as I have
said, most marked, and that is why the Jacobite Muster-roll finds an
appropriate place in the present work. Not only did the rebellions set
the old warlike spirit coursing through the veins of many who had al-
most forgotten how to fight, but the subsequent attitude of expiation gave
a great fillip to the Services. Take the case of Kenmure. The 6th Vis-
count lost his head in 1716 : his second son William, who but for the
attainder which that sentence carried with it, would have been 8th Vis-
count, sought to right his house and himself by -sending every one of his
five sons into the Army of the Chevalier's successful rival. His foresight