In Scotland the brothers ‘conducted themselves as members of a reigning dynasty who wished to preserve their incognito’ and their claims ‘were accorded a level of credence’ (as the "Dictionary of National Biography" said at the end of the century) by ‘men of rank and intelligence, such as the tenth Earl of Moray (1771-1848), the fourteenth Lord Lovat (1802-1875), the late Marquis of Bute (1793-1848), Thomas Dick-Lauder (1784-1848), and Robert Chambers (1802-1871)’. However, the delusional John Sobieski Stuart, in spite of his expressed desire to withdraw from the public eye, went so far as to claim, in a letter to Chambers, that he and his brother had ‘a body of supporters ready to push their claims to the uttermost’.