The Saber and Scroll Journal Volume 8, Number 3, Spring 2020 | Page 105

ontributions of Women Jacobites 1688–1788 9 Cameron of Glendessery. 59 Jenny Cameron is a prime example of the Jacobite propaganda wars, which began in 1688, claiming James III the pretender. Stories romanticized her as the mistress of Prince Charles, and a sword-wielding warrior that led men to the standard of Charles Stuart. James Ray, a volunteer in the Duke of Cumberland’s Army, provided an English perspective of Jenny Cameron in his book of first-hand accounts, A Compleat History of the Rebellion, from its first Rise, in 1745, to its total Suppression at the Glorious Battle of Culloden, in April 1746. 60 Ray paints a colorful past of Jenny during her young womanhood years: About fifteen years of age; but not putting a proper restraint on her inclination, a discovery came to light that she had carried on an amour, about six months, with one Sawney, a footman, who having formerly liv’d with a man of quality, had learn’d all the fashionable vices and follies of the gay part of town; this intrigue brought on its effects, and Miss began to be surpriz’d with an uncommon alteration to her health, and being ignorant of the cause, made application to her Aunt for advice, who, to her sorrow, knew the disease too well, but had the prudence not to discover it to Miss, she being resolv’d to find the author of this misfortune; and that very night let her into the secret;----- for Miss was unwarily caught in the arms of