Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat who in 1715 had origninally been a supporter of the House of Hanover, and then in 1745 changed sides and joined Prince Charles Edward, the young Jacobite pretender, a step treacherous in the extreme.
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Was Beheaded for High Treason
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