DE LA TRÉMOILLE, Duc. A Royalist Family Irish and French (1689-1789) and Prince Charles Edward. Translated from the French by A.G. Murray MacGregor. (Edition limited to 320 copies)

THE WILD GEESE AND THE JACOBITES

With a map of the route of the 'Doutelle'. Portrait frontispiece of Charles Edward giving instructions to Anthony Walsh. Genealogical charts of the Walsh family at end.  Edinburgh: William Brown, 1904. Facsimile reprint. Quarto. pp. viii, 118, 5 (Genealogical charts). Edition limited to 320 copies. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Coloured armorial bookplate of Gayre of Gayre and Nigg on front pastedown. Minor wear to extremities. A very good copy.

This work is translated from 'Une Famille Royaliste Irlandaise et Ecossaise et Le Prince Charles Edouard', a French publication unsigned but compiled from original MSS. by the Duc de la Trémoïlle, a descendant in the female line of the family of Walsh of Castle Hoel in County Kilkenny. The Walshes were ardent supporters of the Royal House of Stuart. One of them, whose voyage to Scotland with the Prince in 1745 is here recorded, was created Earl Walsh by James III (VIII), and the other received from Louis XV of France the title of Comte de Serrant, and was ancestor of the Duc de la Trémoïlle, who granted permission for this translation. Details of Bonny Prince Charlie, his adherents, and the log-book of the 'Doutelle', which carried him to Scotland are given in this book.
Anthony Walsh, naval officer and shipowner was born at St. Malo in 1703, son of Philip Walsh who was commander of the ship that brought James II to France after the battle of the Boyne. The family were for centuries located at Ballynacooly in Walsh mountains, barony of Iverk, County Kilkenny. Anthony, after spending some years in the French naval service, settled as a shipbuilder at Nantes, where he prospered. In 1745 he was approached by Lord Clare, Commander of the Irish Brigade, regarding a Jacobite Rising in Scotland. As a result, Walsh undertook along with two other Irishmen, Rutledge of Dunkirk and O'Hegarty of Paris, to convey Prince Charles Edward (Bonny Prince Charlie) to that country in his own brig the 'Doutelle' in which he accompanied the Prince. After safely landing him in Scotland, he returned to France where he was honoured. Soon afterwards he was appointed by Louis XV to the command of an expedition that was to have landed eighteen battalions of infantry and two regiments of cavalry in Scotland, but the project was abandoned at the news of the defeat at Culloden Moor.

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