Anne Erroll

In the 1680s, Anne submitted contributions of text and plates to Robert Sibbald’s Scotia Illustrata, a collaborative natural history book published in 1684.

[3] She illustrated the redwing and the black-winged stilt (or goosander) and sent texts containing descriptions of a sea eagle eyrie and a fin whale.

[6] In other words, between 1704 and 1708 she was the representative in Scotland of the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart and the Jacobite Court at St Germain.

[7] The Slains Castle estate providing 'money and horses, necessary to keep up a correspondence throughout the kingdom' leading to great debt for the family.

Simon Fraser, the later Lord Lovat, was at the heart of the scandal, was part of a joint French/Jacobite mission sent to verify his claims that the Highlands would rise in support of James Stuart.

'[11] Hooke's objectives on both the 1705 and 1707 visits was to gather military intelligence to establish the feasibility of fomenting a Jacobite rising in Scotland aided by the French, with the aim of distracting the English, then fighting Louis XIV's armies on the continent.

She spent most of her later life at her country house at Delgatie, and died in or before August 1719, having outlived her husband and all of her children but Mary.