Gordon's name was included in the Act of Attainder passed after the rebellion by the government. In 1747 the French envoy d’Éguilles submitted a 'memorandum' or report on the 1745 rising to the French government, including an assessment of its leaders: he was sharply critical of most other than Lochiel and his brother, but allowed that Lewis Gordon was "full of courage and ambition".McLynn, Frank. "An Eighteenth-Century Scots Republic? An Unlikely Project from Absolutist France" in The Scottish Historical Review
