Nevertheless, he was one of the Seven Men of Moidart who accompanied Prince Charles to Scotland in July 1745, while another brother Lord George Murray served as a senior leader of the Jacobite army.

The Whigs took control of government and the Tory leaders lost their offices, including the Earl of Mar; in June 1715, he launched a rebellion at Braemar in Scotland, without prior approval from James.

During the rising, Blair Castle was occupied by a 'Jacobite' garrison under Patrick Stewart, a trusted family retainer and besieged by his eldest son John, who was careful not to damage his ancestral home.

[9] The Murrays were involved in efforts to gain support for another invasion from Sweden, then in dispute with Hanover over Swedish Pomerania and an example of the complexity caused by its ruler also being British monarch.

[10] This was resurrected as part of the 1719 Rebellion; its main component was a Spanish landing in South-West England, with a subsidiary rising in Scotland to capture Inverness and enable a Swedish naval expeditionary force to disembark.

For various reasons, only the Scottish element took place and the rebellion collapsed after defeat in the Battle of Glenshiel on 10 June; Tullibardine was wounded, as was Lord George and despite large rewards offered for their capture, both escaped once more.

[13] In a letter of 16 June 1719 to the Earl of Mar, he concluded "our being brought away so very unreasonably will I'm afraid ruin the Kings Interest and faithful subjects in these parts; seeing we came with hardly any thing that was realy (sic) necessary for such an undertaking".

Details are scarce but in a long and often incoherent letter to James Stuart of March 1723, Tullibardine announced his retirement into private life, on the grounds that he was 'unfit ... for meddling with the deep concerns of state.

The traditional mode of Highland warfare meant men went home in the winter and the Atholl Brigade suffered from particularly high rates of desertion; "For God's sake make examples", Lord George urged Tullibardine on 27 January, "or we shall be undone".

[26] Tullibardine rejoined Prince Charles at Culloden House on 19 February; shortly afterwards, Blair Castle was occupied by government forces under Sir Andrew Agnew.