Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, the cunning chief of Clan Fraser who had finally committed to the Jacobite cause in 1745, was one of the most eagerly sought Jacobite leaders after Culloden. Government soldiers pursued him through the western Highlands as he attempted to reach the coast and a ship to France. Lovat, obese and nearly eighty years old, was carried in a litter as he fled. He hid on an island in Loch Morar but was discovered and captured. Government soldiers surrounded the island and rowed out to arrest him. He was brought to London, tried for high treason and beheaded on Tower Hill in April 1747 — the last person publicly beheaded in Britain. He reportedly laughed at the crowd of spectators.
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