Using the names John Sobieski Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart the brothers followed this with their "Tales of the Century, or sketches of the romances of history between 1745 and 1845" (Edinburgh, 1847) in which they provided three scenes of the birth, youth and marriage of a man known by the Gaelic name of "Iolair dhearg" or the "Red Eagle", said to have been recounted by an aged Jacobite in exile, Dr Beaton. After being called to attend the birth of a son to a young woman in Tuscany in 1773, where portraits of the Old and Young Pretenders were prominent, Beaton claimed to have been sworn to secrecy, but later to have seen a baby taken on board a British warship, "HMS Albina", under Commodore O’Haloran. In the second tale, some years later, the grown child arrived in the Western Highlands of Scotland where, although called O’Haloran and thought to be the son of the former captain, he is known as "The Red Eagle" and addressed as a prince. In the third tale, which takes place in the Peak District of Derbyshire, a traveller meets "The Red Eagle" who, after various adventures, marries at Berwick, Catharine Bruce, the daughter of a Derbyshire local landowner.