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THE LORD ARMSTRONG 
 
THE 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 REBELLION 
 
 In the Year 1715. 
 
 WITH 
 
 ORIGINAL PAPERS, 
 
 A N D T H E 
 
 CHARACTERS 
 
 Of the Principal 
 
 Noblemen and Gentlemen 
 Concern'd in it. 
 
 By the Reverend 
 
 Mr. ROBERT PATTE N, 
 
 Formerly Chaplain to Mr. Forst er. 
 The Third Edition. 
 
 LONDON: 
 Printed for James Roberts, in li^arwkk-Lane. 
 
 MDCCXLV, 
 
 Price 2 J. 6d. 
 
TO THE 
 
 Lieutenant-Generals 
 Carpenter and Wi l l 
 
 AND 
 
 The reft of the Commanding Officers 
 of his Majefty's Forces at the Attack 
 at Prejlon, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 AS you had the Honour to command his 
 Majefty's Troops againft the Rebels at 
 ^ Prejion, in honour to your Courage and Con- 
 
 dud: I thought myfelf engag'd, when I under- ' 
 - took the writing this (hort Hiftory of the Re- 
 bellion, to do you that Juftice which is due 
 to your Merit, by afluring the World that it 
 was to your prudent Management and unfha- 
 ken Bravery, animated by the Juftice qf the 
 Caufe, the fignal Defeat of that Day was juft- 
 ly owing. There have been fome indeed, with 
 a View to leflen the Charadters of brave Men, 
 in the way of arrogating Praife to their own 
 
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DEDICATION. 
 
 Party, who have pretended to affert the con- 
 trary (fome of which kept themfelves warm 
 in a Chimney- Corner during the Heat of the 
 Action j) but I, who was an Eye-witnefs to all 
 the great and refolute Attacks made by you 
 under the greateft Difadvantage imaginable, can 
 boldly affirm, that never did Men behave bet- 
 ter, efpecially in your Circumftances, being all 
 the time naked, and expos'd to the Fire of the 
 Rebels from Windows, Barriers, and En- 
 trenchments, ^c. All which, I prefume, will 
 appear in the following Hiftory, humbly dedi- 
 cated to you by. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 Your mofl; obedient Servant, 
 
 Robert Patten, 
 
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 THE 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 READER. 
 
 TH E followmg Sheets are what I mayjujlly callj 
 An Impartial Hiftory of the late Rebellion. 
 If it fee?n to you that I treat fome of my Brethren the 
 Clergy a little too ffnartly, I protefl it is out of no 
 Difrefpe^l to their Perfons^ much lefs to the Sacred 
 FunSlion they hear^ which I retain the great efl Vene- 
 ration and RefpeSl for^ 7iotwithftandi7ig any Calumnies 
 that may he laid to my Charge. 
 
 Amidfl fome flrange Notions hroaclfd amongfl uSj 
 it ought to be Matter of our grateful Returns to Hea- 
 ven^ that we have flill a Set of Reverend, Learned^ 
 and Pious Divines ; who, animated by a true Spirit 
 of Piety, by their Exarnple, Pen, and Preaching, are 
 eminent Ornaments to the Eflahlifh''d Government in 
 Church and State ; tvhofe ferious Admonitions and 
 grave Counfels, if duly regarded, would fpeedily and 
 effe5t.ually redrefs all our Grievances and Divifions, 
 However the Reflcoiions may feem to others, I mufi 
 own they have been of fingidar Ufe to me for whilji I 
 continued among thofe Unfortunate Gentlemen (whofe 
 Principles were once my ozvn ) I looked no farther than 
 efteeming what I had done, the leafi Part of my Guilt. 
 But no fooner was I removed into the Cuflody of a 
 A 3 Mejfenger^ 
 
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 Mejfenger^ and there clofely confined^ where I had 
 Leifure to reflet upon my pajl Life^ ( and efpecially 
 that of engaging in the Rebellion ) than a great many 
 Scruples offered them/elves to my Confideration. In 
 confequence of which, I made it my Requejl to Lord 
 Townfliend, that he would he pleafed to allow a Cler- 
 gyman to converfe with me: which that Nolle Lord 
 freely granted, and Jent to me the Reverend Dr. Cannon, 
 a Man of fingular good 'Temper and Literature, who 
 applied his bejl Endeavours to fatisfy me in every Point 
 and ^ery I propofed ; in which his Learning and 
 folid Reafoning prevailed upon me: For which good 
 Service, my heft Wifhes Jhall always attend him. 
 
 From thence I hegan to think it a Duty incumbent on 
 me, to make all the Reparation I could, for the Injury 
 I had done the Government : And, as the firft thing in 
 that way, I became an Evidence for the King which 
 I am far from being afhamed of, let what Calumnies 
 will follow. In the Interim, I cannot hut particularly 
 ohferve one thing, in oppofiiion to what has been printed 
 and reported by the Enemies of the Government, viz. 
 That the King^s Witneffes were bribed and Brow-beaten, 
 to extort from them the Matters which they gave in 
 Evidence. 
 
 As to my own part, and I dare fay I may fpeak it 
 for others, I never knew any thing of this kind : But in 
 Honour to thofe who were employed to take my Examina- 
 tion, I muft affrm, that I was tifed in the moft Gen- 
 tleman-like manner, far from extorting any thing by 
 fuch hafe Arts, which no doubt would e^re now have 
 appeared under the fouleft Reflexions ; feeing the other 
 Party did not ftick to bribe all that would take their 
 Money, and by that means too frequently gained their 
 Ends : While on the other hand, it may be faid in the 
 Face of Heaven, That fairer Trials were never allow- 
 ed, at leaft to Men who fo little deferv*d it. 
 
 I pray God, that the Clemency fhewn them may not 
 he a Temptation to them to repeat their Crimes ; from 
 
 which^ 
 
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 which^ of his infinite Mercy^ I heg he will delivei' 
 thefe Kingdoms. 
 
 It is worth Ohfervation, that nothing contributed 
 more to raife the People of this Nation to a Spirit o^ 
 Rebellion^ than the licentious Freedom of fome in their 
 puUick Difcourfes, and others in their Mdrefes, to cry 
 up the old Do^rines of Paffive Obedience, and to give 
 Hints and Arguments to prove Hereditary Right ; then 
 publick Shews were encouraged with defigning Emblems 
 and legible Badges of their Ends then ill-natured Di- 
 ftin5iions and Deftgnations were fomented, and with 
 Malice upbraiding one another. 'This introduced Mohsy 
 fo that the Party in Difgrace with the Court had their 
 own Houfes, and thofe of their Worfhip, pulled about 
 their Ears, themfelves infulted and affaulted by the very 
 Dregs of the People ; Like a Flood they carried all be- 
 fore them without Check or Controul. Nay, their ill Na- 
 ture could not be confined within thefe Realms j but they 
 found Means to raife the bafefl of Reflexions, and the 
 worjl of lying Stories, upon the mofl Illuftrious Houfe in 
 Europe, that had ajuft "Title to the Imperial Diadems 
 of thefe Kingdoms., with no other Deftgn but to blacken 
 with their foul Breath their Perfons and bright Chara- 
 ^ers. I am afhamed that I, with fo many deluded 
 People, upon bare Reports, fhould be blindly led to give 
 Credit to fuch incredible Legends and Lies reported by 
 the Fomenters of the late Rebellion •, but being prepa- 
 red with the noify Notion of the Church's being in dan- 
 ger, eafily complied with the Party, Healths and full 
 Bumpers were toffed about with difguis*d Names, Cha- 
 ra£lers, and JVifhes, and concluded with Confufioiiy 
 Datnnation, and DeftruXion to Others whom they durfl 
 not name. Did not all thefe Concurrences fpirit up the 
 Populace to be guilty of fo many egregious Mif car- 
 riages, as they have been of late towards his Sacred 
 Majefty King George? So by degrees, they aban- 
 doned all Reverence, Refpe£l, nay. Obedience due to 
 him, and lifted themfelves in open Defiance and RebeU 
 
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 lion to his Laws^ and againfi his Perfon and Family : 
 So true is the old Proverb^ Nemo repente fuit turpif- 
 fimiis. Though it had been the Care and indefati- 
 gable Pains of fame, during fome Part of the 
 Reign of the late ^een ; yet if the latter Part was 
 Tory, the firjl Part fo eftdblifhed the other Party^ 
 well inclined to the Succeffwn in the Illufirious Houfe 
 of Hanover, thai nothing could have fo fpeedily un- 
 done fuch a cemented and folid Eftablifhment, but 
 fome more Tears Countenance under a blinded Patron, 
 How many have the Dif appointments been^ which that 
 €ifpiring Party have met with ftnce the late Revo- 
 lution under King William ? And yet their Managers 
 ftill indulge the Infatuation, "the very Difappointments: 
 they met with lately by the Death of a nurftng Parent, 
 and the King of France : Their many private Plots 
 were all made ineffeEluaU and their declared Force 
 ufelefs. Tet when the Turk threatened Europe, then 
 he was to be the Rejiorer ; but when fo many Turk 
 Tories were killed by the brave Prince Eugene, then 
 they grew flat. Then the King of Sweden appeared in 
 their Caufe : The Piirfe was opened^ and their Minds 
 declared^ by large Encomiums on his Force, his Con- 
 duct, his Refolution, and invincible Courages which 
 were now levelled againft King George in behalf of 
 their Darling : So true is the old Saying, Quos Jupi- 
 ter vult perdere prius dementat. 
 
 Tet it is reafonahle to imagine that His Majejlfs moji 
 gracious Clemency and Mercy fhewn to thefe Gentlemen, 
 will infpire them with grateful Returns of Thankfulnefs, 
 and make them peaceable and pajjive during the Enjoys 
 ment of thofe Tears he has granted them. 
 
 But fo ungenerous are fome, that they upbraid His 
 Majefly with Cruelty, for the few Examples made of 
 thofe that fuffered. May not this §lue^ion be put to 
 thefe People ; Did not the Blood fpilt at Prefton re- 
 quire no Satisfaction, confidering how it was fpilt ? Tet 
 there have not fuffered upon that Account the fourth 
 
 Part, 
 
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 Part, in proportion to thofe that were killed, (I Jhould 
 have /aid murthered). Did not the Blood fhed at 
 Sheriffmore, though not fo brutely as that at Prefton, 
 require fome Saiisfa^ion ? And yet not one has fuffered 
 upon that Account ? So variable are our human Paf- 
 fions, that thofe who have been the Objeofs of our great- 
 eft Indignations, when we confder the Nature of their 
 Guilt, that our great eft Refeniments to their Perfons 
 for their Crimes, is expreffed with the utmoft Ah}:>or- 
 rence ; yet when thefe Wretches are brought to Judg- 
 ment, and are going to receive thejuft Reward of their 
 Crimes, our Bowels commiferaie, our Eyes bewail 
 them, when before they were condemned to greater Se- 
 'Verities by ourfelves, than they receive from their 
 Judges. 'Thus it fares with the greateft Villains ; and 
 thus it has appeared in the Cafe of the Rebels : Were 
 they not the very Derifion and Scorn of the People, 
 when led into this famous City ? Did not all the Faces 
 in general that beheld them, fpeak their Refentmeni to 
 their Crimes ? And yet, when brought to the Place of 
 Execution, none were more pitied by a great many of 
 the unthinking Popidace ; nay, thofe that leaft deferved 
 it, that had formerly profejfed the eftablifh d Religion, 
 and now at their Exit profeffed themfelves of another 
 Faith, excluding by their Principles all others from the 
 Hopes of Salvation, that would not follow their Ex- 
 ample : But as the former Part of their Lives had 
 been a ContradiUion to all Morality, fo the latter 
 Part was a direct Oppofition to all Honefty. The 
 Kom3.n-Catholicks died like Men, never varying from 
 their Principles ; but our Tories or High-Churchmen 
 went into other Extremes. A true Badge of the Men 
 and their Manners, not one of them being touched in 
 the leaft with Remorfe, though they had pleaded guilty. 
 However, that may be leffened, becaufe of the Frailty 
 of the Flefh j yet giving themfelves the Lie at their 
 very Departure, and Brink of Eternity, is enough to 
 fatisfy any rational Being. I muft own, Mr. Man- 
 
 caftcr. 
 
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 ciifter, that was executed in Lancafhire, in his dying 
 Speech, declared the greatefl Deteftation to his Guilty 
 a>nd earnefily begged the Almighty* s Pardon for rebel-^ 
 ling againft his lawful Sovereign. 'This Man could 
 not he impofed upon to fpeak contrary to his Confcience, 
 which the Party had perfuaded others to do. 
 
 Having premifed thefe Things, I fhall detain my 
 Reader no longer, hut only to acquaint him, That the 
 Reafon why a Second Part or Edition of The Hiftory 
 of the Rebellion came out fo foon after the other, was, 
 that when I writ the Firfi, I did it in a very little 
 time ; hut finding they fold very well, I was willing 
 to add a great many valuable Pieces, Accidents, and 
 Characters ; which I hope will pleafe, feeing I write 
 without Partiality, 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 REBELLION. 
 
 TH E fevcral fecret Steps which of late 
 have been taken to eftabiifh the pre- 
 tended Son of King James II. upon the 
 Imperial Throne of thefe Realms, and 
 which for many Years have been carried on by In- 
 trigues and Cabals of Parties and Perfons againft 
 the Eftablifliment of this Nation both in Church 
 and State, have now at laft difcovered themfelves 
 in open Rebellion. Whatever Pretences they have 
 made to cover their fecret Pradices, whatever diffe- 
 rent Meafures they have taken to carry on their 
 Defigns, they have all appeared to center in this 
 one Point, vbL. to dethrone his Majefty King 
 George, and to fet afide the Proteftant SuccefTion 
 in his illuftrious Family. There is no queftion to be 
 made but that they would gladly have brought this 
 to pafs by quiet and eafy Methods, and that ( if 
 poffible) they would have brought the Nation into 
 it on the Pretences of Hereditary Right, Legitimacy 
 of Blood, and the divine Law of Primogemture, which 
 
 for 
 
[ 2 ] 
 
 for many Years they had preach'd up as a Princi- 
 ple in the Church, raifing innumerable Inventions 
 of forged Stories and falfe Reprefentations, to pre- 
 poflfefs the Minds of the People in Favour of a Po- 
 pjh Pretender, and in Prejudice of the Houfe of 
 Hanover ; but Heaven having difappointed all their 
 clandeftine Meafures by the fudden and unexpefted 
 Death of the late Queen, and efpecially of the late 
 King of France, on whofe open and avowed En- 
 gagements of Support they entirely depended ; and 
 King George, in Right of the fcveral parliamen- 
 tary Settlements of the Entail, being peaceably pof- 
 fefled of and eftabliihed in the Throne, they had 
 then no way left but to fly to the laft Refort of de- 
 fperate Men, and taking Arms, to break out in 
 open Rebellion. 
 
 Being to write of this remarkable Event, as one 
 among the reft deluded to take an unhappy Share 
 in its Progrefs and Confequences, I fhall rather con- 
 fine my felf to the Matters of Fadl hiftorically to be 
 related, than go back to the fecret Confultations and 
 Refolutions by which the Perfons concern'd ripen'd 
 one another up to a Spirit of Rebellion only ob- 
 ferving one thing previous to the Rebellion itfelf, 
 and very aggravating upon thofe concerned in it, 
 viz. that not only many of the Gentlemen concern- 
 ed, but even the Earl of Mar himfelf, who was the 
 firft Mover and Head of the Rebellion itfelf, had 
 not only offered their Service to the King, but had 
 taken Oaths to continue faithful to him, and had 
 in particular abjur'd the Intereft of the Pretender. 
 
 I fay no more of it here, being to mention it 
 again in its Courie, but this, that it was a fad To- 
 ken of what Principles either of Honour or Con- 
 fcience thefe Men proceeded upon ; which, had it 
 been known fooner, would certainly have been an 
 Antidote to have cured not me only, but many 
 
 more 
 
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 more deluded Men, of the moft favourable Thouglits 
 we had entertain'd for their Perfons and Defigns. 
 
 To look then no farther back, we find the firft 
 beginning of this Rebellion difcovered itfelf in the 
 Eallern Parts of Scotland^ in the Provinces of Merns^ 
 Perthjhire^ Angus, i^c. in the following manner. 
 
 Several Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others in 
 Scotland, being prepared by the Management and 
 Influence of the Earl of Mar, began to draw toge- 
 ther their Servants and Dependants in all the Places 
 where they had Intereft, making divers Pretences 
 for fo doing, but not for fome Time difcovering 
 the real Defign ; till at length Things ripening up- 
 on them, and Notice being taken of them, and 
 efpecially the Earl of Mar being arrived among 
 them, they boldly drew together, and openly de- 
 clared themfelves to have taken up Arms againfl: 
 King George, giving Defiance to his Forces, and 
 fupprefling all that were loyally affeded to his Per- 
 fon. This daring Attempt began firft about the 
 latter End of Juguff, 17 15, in the Shire of Perib, 
 and in the Highlands of the Shire or County_ of 
 Mar, where they continued fome Days, gathering 
 their People together till their Number increafed ; 
 and then barefacedly they advanc'd to other Places, 
 forming themfelves into a Body, and particularly 
 at a fmall Market-Town nam'd Kirk- Michael, whttQ 
 the Pretender was firft proclaim'd, and his Standard 
 fet up, with a Summons for all People to attend it. 
 This was on the 9th of September, where they con- 
 tinued four or five Days, and then made their way 
 to Moulin, another fmall Market- Town in the fame 
 Shire. Here they likewife proclaim'd the Pretender ^ 
 and refted fourteen Days, gathering Forces, where, 
 by the coming in of others of their Party, they con- 
 fiderably increafed their Number. From hence they 
 marched to another Market-Town cali'd Logarett, 
 their Number now amounting to 1000 Men well 
 
 arm'd ; 
 
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 arm*d ; from Logarett they march*d to an ancient 
 City which formerly gave Title to a Bifliop, call'd 
 Dunkeld. This Place they made their Head-Quarters, 
 and here their Numbers increas*d again confiderably, 
 for here they were join'd by 2000 Men from the 
 Highlands by the Marquis of Tullibardin^ by the 
 Earl of Broadalbin's, Men, and feveral others. Here 
 finding themfelves ftrengthen'd by the Addition of 
 the Highland-Men, as above, they refolved to ex- 
 tend their Quarters ; and the Earl of Mar having 
 Intelligence that the Earl of Rothes and the Gentle- 
 men of Fife, who were up in Arms for the King, 
 were advancing to poflefs themfelves of Perth, cal- 
 led alfo St. John^s-'fown, the principal City of thefe 
 Parts, and which commands the PalTage over the 
 ^ay, refolv'd to be beforehand with them and ha- 
 ving Intelligence in the Place, he detached Mr. 
 John Hay, Brother to the Earl of Kinoul, with a 
 ftrong Party, giving him Orders to polTefs himfelf 
 of that Place, which he performed effedually 5 
 which A6lion, as it was a great Difappointment to 
 the King's Troops, fo it was a very great Advan- 
 tage to the Earl of Mar and his Party : 
 
 1. As it gave him the Command of the whole 
 Province of Fife, the moft fruitful, rich, and for 
 the Convenience of the Sea-Coaft, the moft com- 
 modious to him of any of the Provinces in that Part 
 of Scotland, as will foon appear. 
 
 2. As it gave a great Reputation as well to his 
 Conduft as to his Party, who upon this Succefs 
 made Preparations in all Parts to draw together 
 and join him. And now indeed they began to have 
 the Face of a ftrong Army, making this City their 
 chief Garifon and Head- Quarters. A great many 
 Lords, Chiefs of Clans, and other Gentlemen from 
 all Quarters fiock'd to them, with their Followers, 
 and fome of them in very good Order, and well 
 ^rmed, particularly the Marquis of Huntley, the 
 
 Earl 
 
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 Earl of Seaforth^ the MacintofhH^ the Earl Maref- 
 challf and with them fo many, that their Number 
 were faid to be about 12000 Men, very well ap- 
 pointed, as well Horfe as Foot. 
 
 From thence extending their Quarters, they per- 
 formed an Exploit at Brunt-IJland, which ftill added 
 to their Reputation ; where they not only furprifed 
 the Town, being ftrong by Situation, and a Sea- 
 Port on the Firth of Forth, in view of the very City 
 of Edinburgh but manning out fome Boats in the 
 Harbour, they went off, and feiz'd a Ship loaden 
 with Arms, Ammunition, and other warlike Stores, 
 which lay in the Firth, bound to the North, for the 
 Ufe of the Earl of Sutherland. 
 
 Subfequent to this, they immediately made them- 
 felves Mafters of all the Towns upon the Coaft, 
 even to the Mouth of the Firth, and, in a word, of 
 the whole Province of Fife, the Earl of Rothes and 
 the Gentlemen with him being obliged to feparate, 
 or retire to Stirling, to the King's Army. 
 
 The Rebellion being come to this length, the Earl of 
 Mar refolvd, in Concert with his Confederates, who 
 by this time began to appear likewife in other Places, 
 to make an Attempt upon the South Parts of Scotland i 
 and this by a Method which at that Time was not ex- 
 pe6ted, and indeed fcarce pra6bicable, viz. By fend- 
 ing a ftrong Detachment of Men to crofs the Firth 
 of Forth, to land on Lothian fide, there to be joined 
 by their Friends, who they expefted to rife about 
 Haddingtoun, and on the Borders of England. On 
 their March to the Sea- Coaft they were covered by 
 fome Horfemen under the Command of Sir John 
 Arejkin of Aha, the Mafter of Sinclar, and Sir 
 James Sharp, Grandfon to Archbiftiop Sharp of St* 
 Andrews, who was murder*d in his Coach by the 
 old Cameroniafis. This Body was commanded by 
 the Laird of Borlam, better known by the Name of 
 Brigadier Mmntojhy and confifted of 2500 Men well 
 
 arm* J. 
 
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 Arm'd. Orders had been given for all the Boats on 
 that Side to be got ready to tranfport them over. 
 His Majefty's Ships then in the Firth either efpying 
 them, or having Notice of the Defign, prepared to 
 prevent them, and weighing their Anchors upon the 
 Top of the Flood, fet fail to intercept them, if 
 they fliould attempt the Paflage ; but the Rebels 
 made feveral Counter- marches to amufe them till 
 Night came on. They drew all down to the Shore 
 on Wednefday Night, the nth of O£ioher. Several 
 embark*d that Night, and others the next Night, 
 making diredly over the South Shore, the Men of 
 "War not being able to come time enough ; yet one 
 Boat was taken with forty Men on Board ; others 
 were forced back to the Fife Side again ; among 
 whom my Lord Strathmore and his Lieutenant- Colo- 
 nel Walkinjhaw of Barrowfield, and a great many 
 Men were forced into the IQe of May, Of the 
 2500 defigned for this Defcent upon the Lothians^ 
 only 1 500. of them landed ; the Men of War being 
 come down, made it imprafticable for the other to 
 pafs; fo they were oblig'd to flay till the next 
 Night, and then to get back to Criel on the Shore 
 of Fife : The other getting to the Shore, landed at 
 North Berwick, Aberlady, and other Places on that 
 Coaft, and quarter'd at Haddingtoun and 'Trannent the 
 firft Night. This was a bold, and, to give them 
 their due, a brave Attempt, for Men in open Boats 
 to crofs an Arm of the Sea fixteen or feventeen 
 Miles broad, in fight, and indeed in Defiance of 
 three Men of War, whom they fell in among, but 
 received no Damage from them, but rather an Ad- 
 vantage ; for the I.ights of the Ships. fhewed them 
 •^'how to row to the Shore. On the other hand, the 
 Government omitted nothing that could be done to 
 prevent this bold Attempt ; no Care was wanting 
 to difappoint them of Vefiels for the Undertaking i 
 the Magiftrates . of Edinburgh and of the other 
 
 Towns 
 
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 Towns on the Edith, having had Notice from the 
 Duke of Argyle of this Defign, had ordered, all the 
 Boats that could be got to be brought to Leith ; and 
 befidcs the Three Ships of War that lay in the Road, 
 ordered the Three Cuftom-houfe Smacks either to 
 burn or bring over from Fife all the Boats and Vef- 
 fels they could find, to prevent the Rebels coming 
 over. But all thefe Precautions proved ineffedtuah 
 The Rebels being Mafters of all the Sea-Shore, 
 from Cromarty to the Forth of Edinburgh, they 
 eafily found Means to get Boats for their Purpofe i 
 nor did they fail of all neceflary Policy in the Ma- 
 nagement of the Defign ; for whilft fome of them 
 amufed the King's Ships about Brunt-IJland, as if 
 they would pafs above Z(?zVZ?-Road, their main Body 
 embarked on the other fide, under the Condudl, as 
 before, of Brigadier Mackintojh of Borlam, and quite 
 out of fight of the Ships j and by this Means came 
 fafe afliore, as above. 
 
 Whilft this Defign was putting in Execution, the 
 Earl of Mar made a feigned March from Perth to« 
 wards Dumblain, as if he defigned to attempt to 
 crofs the Forth at 5'/z>/f;/g--Bridge, or there-abouts, 
 with an Intent to divert the Duke of Argyle from 
 falling upon thofe that had crofi^ed the Firth, as be- 
 fore : Nor was this part of their Defign ineffedlual ; 
 for it obliged the Duke of Argyle to return to Stirling 
 in all hafte ; which you lhall have related after- 
 wards. 
 
 The Highlanders having thus crofied the FzV/^, 
 and refrefh'd themfelves but one Night at Hadding- 
 toun, march'd diredtly towards Edinburgh, where 
 they caufed greater Fear than there was real Dan- 
 ger ; for unlefs their Number had been greater, it 
 was as unlikely they fliould be able to force that City, 
 as it was improbable that City Ihould have refifted 
 them, had their Number been greater. It was in- 
 deed fuppofed that they expeded to be joined by the 
 
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 ilabble, and to have rais'd fome Tumult in the City 
 in their Favour : But by the good Conduft of the 
 Magiftrates, and the Unanimity of the Citizens, 
 who immediately took Arms, and formed them- 
 felves, they were difappointed ; and efpecially by the 
 fpeedy Approach of the Duke of Argyle, who, on 
 Notice of their Approach, came with a fwift March 
 from Stirling with a Detachment of Dragoons to the 
 AfUftance of the Citizens. 
 
 The Rebels march*d up within Sight of the City ; 
 but finding no Numbers come out to them, and be- 
 ing informed as well of the Pofture of the Citizens, 
 as of the Approach of the Duke of Argyle, and, 
 -which was more than all, being fenfible of the Weak- 
 Tiefs of their own Power, they halted, and calling a 
 fhort Council, they refolv'd to attack ; fo they 
 turn*d to the Right, and marching to Leiih, they 
 •cntred the Town without Refiftance. 
 
 Here they were entire Matters of the Place ; and 
 that they might hot be fallen on to their Difadvan- 
 tage, they marched over the Bridge, and polled 
 themfelves in the old demoliflied Fort there built by 
 Oliver Cromwell, and called the Citadel. Here they 
 rbegan to fortify ; and firft they went on board the 
 ^hips in the Harbour, and feized feveral Pieces of 
 •Cannon, with Powder and Ball, and what elfe was 
 proper for their Defence, together with a good 
 Quantity 6f Brandy, Meal, Flefh, and other Pro- 
 vifions : And here they continued all Friday and 
 Saturday the 1 3 th and 14th" of October. On Saturday^ 
 the Duke of Argyle, who, as above, had come from 
 'Stirling, upon Notice of their coming over the Firth^ 
 and had firft given the Forces he had brought with 
 -him a little Time to refrefli themfelves after their 
 long and hafty March, I fay, on Saturday march'd 
 down from Edinburgh with the 400 Horfe and 200 
 Foot which he brought with him, and had mounted 
 upon Country Horfes for Expedition, to whom he 
 Join'd 400 Militia, and the Town-Guard of Edin- 
 
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 liirgh of 120 Men : With thefe his Grace fct out oF 
 Edinburgh about Ten in the Morning ; but finding 
 the Highlanders fo well intrenched, that it was im- 
 pradicable to attack them without Cannon, by rea- 
 fon the Hoi fe he had with him could do him little or 
 no Service, he returned to Edinburgh about two in 
 the Afternoon, and gave Orders that neceffary Pre- 
 parations Ihould be made for attacking the Rebels 
 with Artilkry the next Day. 
 
 The Forces which his Gracfe commanded werc 
 part of Lord Portfnore*s^ commonly called the ^^i^/i 
 Gray, part of Lieutenant- General Carpenter's, and 
 the Earl of Stair's Dragoons, part of Shannon's^ part 
 of the Lord Forfar's, and part of the Scots Fuziliers 
 Foot, befides the Militia abovcj and feveral Ntjble- 
 men and Gentlemen Voluntiers. 
 
 The Rebels ftill expefted that great Numbers 
 from Edinburgh would have come out and joined 
 them, being encouraged by the good Pofture they 
 were in which, 'had it happened, they had yet a 
 ftrong Inclination to attempt to enter the City but 
 feeing there was no longer Expectation of Encou- 
 ragement, (for there only came fix or feven Gentle- 
 men to them, and gave them an Account that no 
 Body ftirr*d, and that the Town was in a Pofture 
 to oppofe any Attempt th€y fliould make,) and be- 
 ing likewife'- informed of the Preparations that the 
 Duke of Argyle was making to fall upon them the 
 next Day, that fame Saturday Night, about feven 
 o'clock, they prepared to be gone, refolving to make 
 a Retreat under the Favour of the Darknefs of the 
 Night. Before they did this, they fent off a Boat 
 with an Exprefs to the Earl of Mar, to acquaint him 
 with their Proceedings. As foon as the Boat went 
 off, they difcharged one of their Qannon after her, 
 to make the Men of War imagine her an Enemy to 
 the Rebels. Nor did that Stratagem fail, but fully 
 anfwered the Defign ; the Boat efcap*d unpurfu'd, 
 
 B 2 and 
 
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 and returned to them again with Letters from the 
 Earl of Mar, and new Orders, about three Hours 
 before they left Seaton-Houfe. Night being come, 
 all things were made ready with the greateft Caution 
 and Secrecy imaginable for their Retreat, which 
 they performed in the deepeft Silence taking the' 
 Advantage of the Low Ebb of the Tide, they 
 marched off by the Head of the Peer on the Sands, 
 croffing the Mouth of the River no deeper than to 
 the Knees in Water, making Eaftward *, fo covered 
 their Retreat, and came fafe to Seaton-Houky lea- 
 ving about Forty behind them that had made too free 
 with the Brandy which they found in the Cuftom- 
 Houfe, befides fome Stragglers, who lagg'd behind 
 in their March. Several little odd Accidents hap- 
 pened to them in that March, occafioned by the 
 Darknefs of the Night, and the Miftakes natural to 
 Attempts of this kind : Firft of all, when they came 
 near Mujlelnrgh, fome Peoplef from the End of that 
 Town fired upon their Front, but did no Harm, 
 yet occafioned a great Diforder among them. At 
 firft this made the Highlanders fufpeft all Horfemen 
 for Enemies ; the Confequence of which was very 
 unhappy to one of their own Number, a Gentleman 
 of no mean Quality, Character, and Fortune, and 
 who had juft joined them, whofe Name was Mr. 
 ' Alexander Maloch, of Miitree-Shields : This Gentle- 
 man being on Horfeback, was challenged by a 
 Highlander in his Language ; to which the Gentle- 
 man being a Stranger, and not able to anfwer in 
 that Dialed, the Highlander fhot him dead on the 
 Spot. The Brigadier took what Money and Gold 
 he had about him, which was about fixty Guineas, 
 and left him ; for they could not ftay to bury him. 
 Soon after this, viz. about a Mile farther from 
 Mujlehurgh, on the other Side of the Town, they 
 • were again alarm*d with the Noife of Guns firing 
 upon the Front : And here the like Miftake occa- 
 fioned 
 
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 fioned the like Mifchief for taking a Party of theif 
 own Men for Enemies, the foremoft of the Body 
 fired upon them, and killed a Serjeant belonging to 
 the Earl of Mar's Regiment, and a private Soldier. 
 The Night proved fo very dark, that they could not 
 diftinguifh Friends from Enemies ; which was their 
 Happinefs one way, as it prevented their being dif- 
 covered and purfued ; but their great Mifchief ano- 
 nother way, as it made them liable to fuch falfe 
 Alarms, and made them kill their own Friends in- 
 ftead of Enemies : At laft they arrived at Seatoti' 
 Houfe about two in the Morning, which is an an- 
 cient Caftle, >very large, encompafs'd with a ftrong, 
 high Stone- Wall, but no Ditch. Here fome of 
 their Men join'd them, who croffing the Firth far- 
 ther Eaftward, had not landed fo foon, and had not 
 been able to come up to them on their March to 
 Leitb ; thefe Men brought them an Account of 
 Strathmore, and other Gentlemen being forc'd 
 afhore on the Ifle of May^ that were obliged to re- 
 turn to the Earl Mar. On Sunday the i6th of 
 O£iober, whilft they were in Seaton-Ylou(Q, feveral 
 of His Majefty's Forces, joined with the well-affed:- 
 ed Gentlemen of the Gountry, came from Edinburgh^ 
 and appeared near Preflon-Pans, which gave an 
 Alarm to the Highlanders ; upon which, a Party 
 marched out of the Caftle, and formed themfelves 
 in order to receive thofe that appeared againft them : 
 But thofe from Edinburgh h^-vw^^ m^de a Halt, re- 
 tir'd ; which the Rebels likewife did into their Ga- 
 rifon at Seaton-Ylouk. Upon Monday the 1 7th, the 
 Earl of Rothes, with 300 Gentlemen Vpluntiers, 
 and the Lord ^orphichcn with 200 Dragoons which 
 the Duke of Argyle had left, marched to Seaton- 
 Houfe, but found the Rebels fo ftrongly pofted, 
 that it was impoffible to diflodge or reduce theip 
 ■without Artillery. This ftill animated the Rebels, 
 and a good Body advanc'd, as if they would charge 
 
 B 3 the 
 
[ 
 
 th€ Gentlemen, and fome Shot were exchanged, hut 
 at too great Diftance to do any Harm on either 
 Side ; and the King's Troops feeing no Good to be 
 done, retir'd 
 
 On Sunday the Duke of Argyle having Intelligence 
 from Stirling that the Earl of Mar^ and the Rebels 
 under his Command, were marching from Perthy 
 he returned to Stirling to obferve the Motion of the 
 Rebels, leaving a Party to proted the People of 
 Edinbwgh from the Infults of the Rabble. This 
 was the Earl of Mar^s feigned March, to withdraw 
 the Duke of Jrgyle from attempting any thing upon 
 the Highlanders that had croffed the Firth : He 
 gave out, he would pafs the Fortb with all his Army, 
 cither at Stirling or at the Bridge of Down. They 
 began their March in the Night, OMer 17, 
 and advanced in three Bodies •, bqt upon the Notice 
 that the Duke of Jrgyk was returned from purfuing 
 the Enemy, he marched back to Perth: AH this 
 was a Stratagem and an Amufement, which indeed, 
 fucceeded ; for he got his Defign anfwer'd, and 
 broke the Meafures of the Duke of Jrgyle, who re- 
 folv'd tp attack Seaion Houfe. As to the Earl of 
 Mar, he was refolv'd not to crofs the Fortb till he 
 had got all the Clans together, and had reduced the 
 Earl of Sutherland, whom if he fhould leave unvan- 
 quifhed upon his Rear, might prove fatal to his De* 
 figns, and expofe all he had gained without Oppq* 
 fition, to be regained by that Lord. 
 
 The Highlanders continued all this while at Sea- 
 fo«-Houfe, and fent out Parties to bring in Provi- 
 fions, of which they brought in great Plenty, as 
 Cows, Sheep, Meal, ^c. and gave out that they 
 refolv'd to fortify there, and make 5f«/o»-Houfe ^ 
 Magazine, while they raifed an Army, as they pre- 
 tended alfo, as well from the Country round about, 
 and from Edinburgh, and from other Friends to 
 their Defign in the Weft part of Scotland, who were. 
 
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 preparing to join them, as from the Borders of Eng- 
 land, where by this time Numbers were rifen ia 
 Northumberland by the Lords and others in England ; 
 of whom I fhaU fay farther hereafter. 
 
 While they continued here they difcovered. a Boat 
 at Sea, making-to wards the Shore from the Fife- 
 fide of the Firth : The Men of War fired very 
 hotly at her ; but the Boat keeping to the Wind- 
 ward at a Diftance, ihe got fafe to Shore. This 
 was the fame Boat that went off from Leith, and 
 brought News concerning their Friends Proceeding 
 at Perth, and Orders to march toward England, to 
 join the New-rifen Rebels in Northumberland. The 
 Boat landed them at a fmajl Harbour called Ihrt"^ 
 SeatQn, a fmall Town where Ships ufed to talc? in 
 Coal and Salt. Prsfently after thefe Orders, {viz.) 
 on tuefday the iSth, two Gentlemen brought them 
 an Account of the Infufredion in Northumberland 
 for the Pretender, under the Command of Mr. For- 
 fter% and of the South- Country Scots Gentlemen, 
 under the Command of tlie^Lord Vifcount Kenmure, 
 Upon thofe feveral Pieces of Intelligence, they al- 
 tered their Refolution ofcontinuingat 5^.^/f«-Houfe ; 
 and at the fame time receiving alfo an Exprefs from 
 Mr. Forfter, inviting them to meet'him at Kelfo on 
 the Border, they relblved to march next Day to 
 m.eet him. This was PF'ednefday the 19th, which 
 they did accordingly, fetting out in the Morning 
 for a fmall Country Town called Lonformachus, 
 which is feventeen long Scots Miler from Seaton- 
 Houlib. During this Day's March, feveral of the 
 Highlanders lagg*d behind and deferred. As foon 
 as Major-General PFightman received Intelligence of 
 their Modon, he marched from Edinburgh with 80 
 Dragoons, 50 Militia, and fome Voluntiers, to at- 
 tack their Rear but returned in the Evening, re 
 \fifeSfa, having only taken up fome of the Rebel 
 Deferters, whom he made Prifoners, and left the 50 
 
 B 4 Foot 
 
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 Foot in Seaion-Houky recovering a great deal of 
 their Spoil which was left there behind. Mackintojh 
 and his Men fet out again from their Night's Quar- 
 ,ters at Lonformachus, towards another fmall I'own 
 in the Mers called Dunfe, the Place of Nativity of 
 the learned and famous Johannes Diinfe Scotus: Here 
 they drew up in Order of Battle whilft the Pretender 
 was proclaimed, retiring afterwards to their Quarters 
 in that Town. The next Morning, being Saturday 
 the 2 2d of QMer, they marched towards Kelfo^ 
 which Town the Englijh 2ind Scots Horfe, that is to 
 fay, the Northumberland and Nithfdale Rebels, enr 
 tred the fame Evening. The Highlanders, in Com- 
 pliment to their Bravery and Condud fhewn in paf- 
 fing the Firth^ and fo often facing their Enemies, 
 were met by the Scots Horfe at Ednemhridge : It 
 feems the Cavalry were fo earneft to pay this Re • 
 fped to the Foot, that they made no Stop at Kel/o^ 
 but went forward to condud the Foot into the 
 Town ; which they did accordingly about three a 
 Clock in the Afternoon ; fo that at that time all 
 their Forces were got together. Brigadier Machntojhy 
 upon all the Marches he had made, and in all the 
 feveral Towns he came at, had been very careful to 
 colled all the Money he could get of the Publick 
 Revenue. His Avarice and Covetoufnefs very much 
 difcover'd the Man : For it is well known that he 
 made falfe Mufters of his Men, and gave them in 
 far more numerous than they were, and fo put the 
 Old Soldier upon the Young General ; which was 
 difcovered at laft. Befides feveral little fmall-fpi- 
 rited Aftions of taking Bribes : For at Prefton he 
 took a Silver Watch from one Mr. Wyhurgh^ whom 
 he had made Prifoner, as one of the Officers of the 
 Mijitia, with a Promife to get him his Liberty, 
 which he could not obtain for that Gendeman, but 
 kept his Watch though upon Complaint made by 
 that Prifoner, then at Liberty, to General Wills^ 
 
 the 
 
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 the Brigadier was, to his Shame, obliged to return 
 it. An Adion very much becoming a Tory Cap- 
 tain. In one of his Marches, pafling by the Houfe 
 of one Dr. Sinclair, he gave Orders to fet fire to 
 it but one Mr. JVilliam Miller, who had the Title 
 of Major in his Regiment, by his Perfuafion pre- 
 vailed with him to forbear thofe Reprifals for the 
 prefent. The Reafon why the Brigadier would have 
 done this, is as follows : This Dr. Sinclair and the 
 Laird of Humhy had Intelligence that there were 
 fome People got together in the Houfe of Mr. Hep- 
 hurne of Keith, near Haddingtoun : This Hepburne 
 was a Gentleman known to be a Friend of the Pre- 
 tender's, and no Queftion had a Defign to join the 
 Rebels. Upon this Intelligence, Dr. Sinclair got 
 fome of the Militia and Neigbours together to attack, 
 them, and, if poflible, prevent their Defign. Mr. 
 Hepburne and his Sons, with a Relation and fome 
 Servants, who were all that were in the Houfe, took 
 the Alarm, and finding they were befet, mounted 
 their Horfes, refolving to break through, and make 
 their Efcapes : Dr. Sinclair and his Troop finding 
 they were better mounted than his Men, and refolute 
 alfo not to furrender, fired upon them, and killed 
 Mr. Hepburne's younger Son, a Youth wonderfully 
 lamented, being Angularly beloved by all that knew 
 him. Dr. Sinclair was blamed for this, and his too 
 particular Behaviour againft Mr. Hepburne, who 
 was his next Door Neighbour : And this caufed 
 many to prefs the Brigadier to fire his Houfe ; which 
 however, as above, was not done. This was the 
 firft Blood fpilt in the Rebellion. 
 
 Having thus brought all the Rebels into Kelfo to 
 their Rendezvous, as well from the North and 
 Weft Parts of Scotland as from England, I muft 
 leave them there a little, while I go back into Nor- 
 thumberland, and give fome Account of the Rifing 
 .»nd Motion of the Rebels on that Side j as alfo of 
 
 fome 
 
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 fomo of their Meafures and Marches, tiJJ they came- 
 and joined the Highland Foot at Kdfo, as above. . 
 
 There had been Meafures concerted at London^ 
 by the Pretender's Friends, feme time before the 
 I-nfurredtion in Northumberland broke out ; to which. 
 Capt, John Shaftoe, ^ Half- pay QiHcer, fmce exe- 
 cuted at Prefion^ and Capt. John Hunter of North-^ 
 Tyne in the County of Northumberlcmd^ who had a 
 Commiffion from Queen Anne to raife an indepen- 
 dent Company, but did not, afTifted : Refides thefe 
 two, there was one Capt. Robert Talbot, an Irijhman. 
 a^Ki Papift^ formerly in the French Service, who 
 likewife being acquainted with the Defign in Auguft^ 
 1 71 5. took Shipping at London, and went to New^ 
 tOrfiUi By this Gentleman, the Refolutions taken at 
 J^ondon were firft communicated to their Friends in 
 the North of England, and Means us'd to perfuade 
 and prepare the Gentlemen they had embark*d with 
 them, to be ready to rife upon Warning given. 
 And here, that I may enter into that Part of the 
 Hiftory of the Rebellion, which though moft ufe-^ 
 fill to be known, yet none of thofe who have pre- 
 tended to write of thefe Things, have yet been able 
 to give a particular Account of, or indeed fo much 
 to entertain any Notion of; I fay, that this 
 needful Part may be laid open, I muft obferve. 
 That as it is very reafonable to fuppofe a Defign of 
 this Confequence. could not be carried on by the 
 Meafures concerted; the Parties furnifhed, prepared, 
 and brought together in a Pofture fit to appear in 
 Arms againft the Government, without long Dc-^ 
 bates, frequent Correfpondences, carrying and re- 
 carrying of Letters, Orders, ^c. and abundance of 
 People employed to concert Meafures, and ripen 
 up Things to the height they afterwards were 
 brought to ; fo it is worth obferving, how that In- 
 telligence was managed, and in what manner they 
 went on for fome time before they broke out into 
 
 open 
 
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 Open Rebellion, And firft we are to obferve, that- 
 the grand Defign was laid at London^ and that there 
 the Meallires were principally concerted; from 
 whence, as from the Center conveying Life and Vi- 
 gour to the Parts, a Gorrefpondence and Intelli- 
 gence was fettled with all the Confpirators in the fe- 
 veral Parts of Britain. But as this was a Corre- 
 fpondence of too much Weight to be carried on by 
 the ordinary Conveyance of Letters, there were fe- 
 veral Gentlemen, from fundry Parts in the King- 
 dom, riding from: Place to Place as Travellers, pre- 
 tending a Curiofity to view the Country, and there- 
 by carrying Intelligence, difcourfmg with Perfons, 
 and fettling and appointing their Bufinefs. The. 
 principal Men entrufted with thefe Negociations, 
 were Colonel Oxhurgh, Mr. Nicholas Wogan, Mr. 
 Charles Wogafti SLud Mr, ya?nes 'Talboi, all Irijb and, 
 Papifis : A fecond Clafs of Agents confifted of Mr.. 
 Clifton Brother to Sir Gervafe Clifton, and Mr, Bea^-. 
 mont, both Gentlemen of Nottinghamjhire, and Mr, 
 Buxton a Clergyman of T>er}>yjhire, All thefe ri4 
 like Gentlemen, with Servants and Attendants, an4 
 were armed with Swords and Piftols. They kept 
 always moving, and travelled fropi Place to place, 
 ' till things ripen'd for Adlion. The firft Step to-r 
 wards their appearing in Arms was, when, about 
 the latter end ot September^ the Lord Dermentwater 
 had Notice that there was a Warrant out from th^ 
 Secretary of State to apprehend him, and that the 
 Meflengers were come to Durham that were to t^ke 
 him. This Lord went to the Houfe of one Mr, B—n^ 
 in his Neighbourhood, a Juftice of the Peace, who, 
 if zealoufly afFeded to His Majefty's Government, 
 pr that Lord's Intereft, might have honourably 
 enough taken him, or at leaft perfuaded him to 
 furrender •, which, it is prefumed, would not have 
 been Matter of great Difficulty to have been done. 
 Here it is fuppofed he went from thence to the, 
 
 Houfe 
 
[ ^8 ] 
 
 Houfe of one Richard Lambert, thought more pri- 
 vate, and leaft fufpedted. Mr. Forjler likewife ha- 
 ving Notice of the like Warrant againft him, went 
 from Place to Place, 'till at laft he came to the 
 Houfe of one Mr. Fenwick of Bywell. The Mef- 
 fenger in purfuit of him was got within half a Mile 
 of that Place j but ftaying or calling for a Conftable 
 to his Aid, whether the other had notice thereof, or 
 not, yet he found time to out-diftance the Meffen- 
 ger, fo that he never overtook him, 'till they met 
 at Barnei, when the Meffenger brought Ropes to 
 pinion him that had led him fuch a Dance. It has been 
 reported (not without good Reafon) that Mr. Fen- 
 wick had given flirewd Demonftrations, if not plain 
 Evidence, of his good Inclinations to join the Re- 
 bels. Upon this News they had a full Meeting of 
 the Parties concern'd, in ■ Northumberland where 
 confulting all the Circumftances of their Friends, 
 and of the Intereft they were embark'd in, they 
 boldly refolv'd, fmce there was no Safety any lon- 
 ger in fhifcing from Place to Place; that in a few 
 Days they fhould be all fecur'd, and clapp'd up 'in 
 feveral Prifons, or hurried away to London that as 
 they fhould be feverally confin'd, fo they would be 
 feverally examined, and none could fay what the 
 other lliould anfwer : So that for fear of betraying 
 one another, they fhould be really brought to do it ; 
 That now was the time to fhew their LxDyalty to 
 their King (Pretender), and that if this Opportunity 
 was lofl, they had no room to hope for another ; 
 and that therefore they would immediately appear 
 in Arms. At this time the Lord Derwentwater*s 
 Horfes had been in Cuftody of one Mr. Coatforth, 
 in that Lord's Neighboui-hood, a Juftice of the 
 Peace for the County, for ftveral Weeks, accord- 
 ing to an Order from Council : But when that Lord 
 had need of them, he had them returned. I after- 
 wards afked that Lord, how he came fo quietly by 
 
 hia 
 
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 his Horfes from the Juftice's Poflefllon, whom the 
 believing Neighbourhood efteem*d a moft rigid 
 Whig ? I was anfwered thus, by that Lord's repeat- 
 ing a Saying of Oliver Cromwell's, 'Thai he could 
 gain his Ends in any Place with an AJs-load of Gold 
 and left me to make Application. Purfuant to this 
 Refolucion, an Appointment was made, and Notice 
 of it fent to all their Friends, to meet the next 
 Morning, which was the 6th of OBoler^ at a Place 
 called Green-rig, which was done accordingly ; for 
 Mr. Former, with feveral Gentlemen, in Number 
 at firft about twenty, met at the Rendezvous ; but 
 made no ftay here, thinking the Place inconvenient, 
 but rode immediately to the top of a Hill called the 
 l^aterfalU ; from whence they might difcover any 
 that came either to join them, or to oppofe them. 
 They had not been long here, before they difcovered 
 the Earl of Ikrwentwater, who came that Morn- 
 ing from his own Seat at Dilffon, with fome Friends, 
 and all his Servants, mounted fome upon his Coach- 
 Horfes, and all very well arm'd. In coming from 
 Diljion-Hall, they all drew their Swords as they 
 marched along Corhridge, and thro' that Town. They 
 halted at the Seat of Mr. Errington, where there were 
 "feveral other Gentlemen appointed to meet, who 
 join'd the Lord Derwenlwater, and then they came 
 on all together to the Places appointed, and where 
 the forenamed Company attended. They were now 
 near 60 Horfe, moft Gentlemen and their Atten- 
 dants *, when calling a fliort Council, it was conclu- 
 ded to march towards the River Coquett, to a Place 
 called Plainfield : Here they were join'd by others, 
 who came ftraggling in, and having made fome 
 Stay here, they refoived to go that Night to Roth^ 
 hury , a fmall Market-Town : Here they ftay'd all 
 Night ; and next Morning, being^'the 7th of O^O" 
 her, their Number ftill increafing, they march'd to 
 TVarhvorth^ another Market- Town upon the Sea- 
 
 Coaft, 
 
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 Coafl, and ftrong by its Situation, famous formerly 
 for a Caftle, the Body of which ftill remains, and 
 an ancient Cell cut out of a folid Rock. Here they 
 continued till Monday^ during which time nothing 
 material happened, except that on Sunday Morning 
 Mr. Forfter ^ who now ftiled himfelf General, fcnt 
 Mr. Buxton their Chaplain to Mr. Ion the Parfon 
 ■of the Parilh, with Orders for him to pray fet the 
 Pretender as King ; nnd in the Litany^ for Mary 
 ^een-Mother^ and all the dutiful Branches of the 
 Royal Family ; and to omit the ufual Names of 
 King George, the Prince and Prince fs \ which Mr. 
 Ion wifely declining, the other, viz. Mr. Buxton ^ 
 took Pofleflion of the Church, read Prayers, and 
 preach'd. Mean while the Parfon went to New caftle 
 to confult his own Safety, and acquaint the Govern- 
 ment with what happened. The next thing they 
 did, was openly to proclaim the Pretender as King 
 ^f Great Britain^ &'c. It was done by Mr. Forfier 
 in Difguife, and by the Sound of Trumpet, and all 
 ^the Formality that the Circumftances and Place 
 1;9-ould admit. It may be obferv*d, that this was the 
 iirft Place where the Pretender was fo avowedly 
 pray'd for and proclaim'd as King of thefe Realms. 
 BuKtonh Sermon gave mighty Encouragement to 
 his Hearers, being full of Exhortations, flourifhing 
 Arguments, and cunning Infinuations to be hearty 
 and zealous in the Caufe •, for he was a Man of a 
 comely Pcrfonage, and could humour his Difcourfe 
 to induce his Hearers to believe what he preach*d; 
 having very good natural Parts, and being pretty 
 well read. 
 
 On Monday ths: loth of OBoler they march'd to 
 "Morpeth^ a very confiderable Market-Town belong- 
 ing to the Earl of Carlijle^ and gives Title to his 
 eldeft Son. Upon their March to this Town their 
 Number got a confiderable Addition , at Fehon- 
 bridge they were join'd by 70 Scots Horfe, or rather 
 
 Gentlemen 
 
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 "Gentlemen from the Borders ' and they had bm 
 confiderabiy increafed before, iti their March from 
 Warkworth, atJlnwkk^ and other Places; fo that 
 at their entrir^g this Town they were 300 ftrong^ 
 all Horfe, for they would entertain no Foot, ieife 
 their Number would have been very large; but as 
 they neither had nor could provide Artns f6r thofe 
 they had mounted, they gave the comi:Aon Pedpte 
 good Words, and told tfem that they would fooin 
 be furnilh'd with Arms and Ammunition, -ahd thsk 
 then they would lift Regiments t^ form an -Arittyi, 
 This was upon the Expectation thfey had of fiirpV-?- 
 zing NeWcafiks in which Cafe they did not qiieftfe^i 
 to have had as ma^ny Foot as they pleas'd. FIq-^ 
 Mr. Forjler .receiv'd an Account that Mr. L^m^ht 
 Errington and fbme others had furprized the Gaftle 
 in the Holy Ijland, which is a fmall Fort guarded by 
 -a few Soldiers ient weekly from the Garish at 
 Berwick. Effin^ton undifcOVerM took Boat -ahd 
 went to Sea, and with his Companions landed und'er 
 the Cover of the Wall, and got into tl-ie Fort by 
 Surprize tho' he kept the Poffeflion but a vefy -lit- 
 tle while, for the Governor of Berudkk having lati 
 immediate Account of the A<ftion, and refolvihg if 
 poflible to recover the Plade before ErHngtm cb\i\A 
 be fupply*d with Men and Provifions, detach^ a 
 Party of 30 Men of his Garifon-, with about 50 
 Voluntiers of the Inhabitants, and marching ov'er 
 the Sands at Low-water-mark aftack'd the Fert, 
 ^nd took it Svvord in Hand ; Erringtm hii*ffelf at- 
 tempting to make his Efcape , w*as wounded and 
 taken Prifoner, with fev^ral ^tliers ; he with his 
 Brother afterwards got out of B'efwick in Difguife. 
 The Defign of taking this Fort was, to give Sig- 
 nals to any Ships that feem'd to make to the G6aft 
 to land Soldiers ; for by the AflUrances they haid 
 from Friends beyond Sea, they expefted them to 
 land on that Coaft with Supplies of Arms and GIH- 
 , . cers 5 
 
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 cers ; but they never came till they were gone for 
 Scotland, and then two Ships appeared off at Sea, 
 and made their Signal ; but having no Anfwer from 
 the Shore, made fail Northward. The Rebellion 
 was now formed, and they were all in a Body at 
 Morpeth^ promifmg themfelves great Things at 
 Newcaftle, and feveral Gentlemen join'd them there, 
 and feveral of the Country People came in and of- 
 fered to lift, but they ftill declined them, and pre- 
 pared to march to Newcaftlei but before they went, 
 Mr. Buxton the Clergyman taking on himfelf the 
 Office of a Herald as well as of a Churchman, pro- 
 claimed the Pretender. They had a Party that went 
 and feized the Poft at Felton-Bridge ; and one 'Tho- 
 mas Gihfon, a Blackfmith of Newcafiky whom they 
 apprehended and detained as a Spy, which it is 
 thought he wfas from Alderman tVhite of Newcaftky 
 a zealous Gentleman for the Government, he after- 
 wards became an Evidence againft fome of the Re- 
 bels at their Trials. Here it was that they receiv'd 
 their firft Difappointment, viz. in the Affair of 
 Newcaftle, which they expefled fhould open its 
 Gates to them ; but finding fome Delay in it, they 
 promifed themfelves to have it in a few Days ; and 
 in the mean time they turned a little to the Weft- 
 ward, and marched to Hexam, an ancient Town 
 famous for its Privileges and Immunities , and its 
 once ftately, but now ruinous Cathedral, formerly 
 for many Years a Biftiop's Seat, of which three 
 were canoniz*d. This Town is diftant from Mor- 
 pth 14 long Miles ; here they were join'd by fome 
 more Scots Horfe. From this Town they all march- 
 ed, few or none knowing whither, and went three 
 Miles diftant to a Heath or Moor adjoining to DiU 
 fton^ the Seat of the Lord Derwentwater, and there 
 they made a Halt; this was with Defign, as was 
 thought, to go to Newcaftle for the Surprize of that 
 Town, which, as above, they hoped to have done 
 
 fooner ; 
 
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 fooner; It is certain they had a great many Friends 
 there ; and it was reported among them that Sir 
 William Blackett would join them. If all that was 
 faid of this Gentleman's Condu£t was true, they 
 were not in the wrong to have feme Dependance 
 upon his Afiiftance but whether or not he was 
 aftually engag'd, remains a Secret ; for he manag'd 
 fo well as to keep out of the way. His Intereft is 
 indeed very confiderable in the Town of Neivcaftky 
 being one of their Reprefentatives in Parliament, 
 and. he has in his Service a great many Colliers and 
 Keelmen, who in flat Boats call'd Keels convey the 
 Coals from the Collieries to the Ships. He has like- 
 wife feveral Lead-Mines on that fide the Country, 
 which employ a great many Hands. Whether his 
 Intereft was fo ftrong among thefe People, as to 
 bring them to take Arms, by his Order, againft 
 their Sovereign, I will not fiy, or whether they re- 
 ceived any Orders of that kind from him but this 
 we had a certain Account of, viz, that thefe Men 
 were order*d to provide themfelves with Arms, and 
 to be; ready to go with one who is a kind of Stew- 
 ard or Governor over them, wherever he fliould 
 diredl: ; but whether this was to be for the Service 
 of the Government, or for the Service of the Pre- 
 tender^ is not certainly known Charity bids us hope 
 they were engaged by this Steward for the King's 
 Intereft, efpecially becaufe he has always pretended 
 to be engaged in the Intereft of his Majefty King 
 George. The Rebels that had gone out of Hexam 
 to the Moor, as above, returned again to their 
 Quarters, having certain Intelligence from fome of 
 their Friends in Nezvcajlle, that even before any re- 
 gular Forces enter'd that Town, the Magiftrates 
 and Deputy-Lieutenants having firft had fome Suf- 
 picion , and foon after pofitive Intelligence of the 
 Defigns of the Rebels to furprize the Town, had 
 efteclually prevented it, and had taken all imagina- 
 
 C ble 
 
[ 24 ] 
 
 ble Precaution for their Security, raifing immedi- 
 ately what Men they could, fecuring and imprifon- 
 ing all Papifts and fufpefted Perfons, arming and 
 encouraging the Inhabitants for their own Defence. 
 Indeed the Magiftrates fliew'd a very commendable 
 Zeal in the Intereft of the King, and the Service of 
 the Town, and no lefs Courage in their Application 
 to the Defence of the Place. They got the Militia 
 and Train-bands, who about that Time were order'd 
 to mufter at Killingworth-Moor near the Town, to 
 be taken into it for its better Defence : At the fame 
 time the Earl of Scarborough, Lord Lieutenant of 
 the County of Northumberland^ repaired with his 
 Friends to Newcajlle : And the Gentry of thofe 
 Parts, after his Lordfhip's Example, mounted their 
 Neighbours and Tenants on Horfeback, fo that 
 the Town was full of Horfes and Men, both Townf- 
 men and Countrymen unanimoufly declaring for 
 King George. However, the Chiefs of the Re- 
 bels having great Intereft in that Place, the Inha- 
 bitants were not altogether without Fear ; nor were 
 the High Party in the Town without the Folly of 
 difcovering their Well-wifhes to the Rebels at Hex- 
 am, and even ufmg fome threatning Expreflions, 
 which the other ought to underftand as fo many 
 Declarations of their Intentions, if the Power had 
 been in their Hands to have aded according to their 
 •apparent Intentions. From this Town Lord Der- 
 wentwater had Intelligence, by an Upholfterer, 
 of the Meffengers coming there, in order to take 
 him. 
 
 This perhaps, was partly the Occafion of laying 
 afide the former Divifions and Prejudices between 
 one another as Churchmen and Diffenters ; the lat- 
 ter chearfully offering, and the former freely accept- 
 ing the Offer, an AiTociation was entered into by 
 both Sides, for the mutual Defence of their Lives 
 and Eftates ; and a Body of 700 Voluntiers were 
 
 arm'd 
 
[ 25 ] 
 
 arm'd by the Town for their immediate Guard, 
 without Diftindion ; and the Keel-men, being 
 moftly Diffenters, ofiered a Body of 700 Men more, 
 to be always ready at half an Hour's Warning ; 
 which was alfo accepted at the fame time the Affo- 
 ciation aforefaid was fign'd by the whole Body of 
 Loyal Inhabitants. In the middle of this Hurry, 
 alfo a Battalion of Foot, and part of a Regiment of 
 Dragoons, being order'd out of Torkjhire for the 
 Security of the Town, having made long Marches, 
 they came to Newcajile^ and then all their Fears va- 
 nifh'd : But they were all farther eas*d of thefe Dif- 
 orders a few Days after; for Lieutenant- General 
 Carpenter having been ordered by the Government 
 to go in Purfuit of the Rebels, with Hotham'% Re- 
 giment of Foot, CohhanH^ Molefworth's, and Chur- 
 chill's Dragoons, for which Purpofe he fet out from 
 London the 15th of OMer, and arrived at New- 
 caftle the i8th, where he began to prepare for at- 
 tacking the Gentlemen at Hexam^ waiting a little 
 for the coming up of the Troops. It is to be ob- 
 ferved, that the Town of Newcajlle is not a Place 
 to be entered as an open Village, but has an old 
 and very ftrong Scone- Wall about it, and very good 
 Gates to defend it, tho' they had no Cannon plant- 
 ed : The Gates alfo were Walled up with Stone 
 and Lime very ftrong, in cafe of any Attempt ; fo 
 that without Cannon they could not have aflaulted 
 the Town. But the Rebels gave them no occafion 
 to make ufe either of Walls or Gates, as we ftiall 
 fee prefently. But firft let us fee how they fpent 
 their Time at Hexani. They ftaid there but three 
 Days, tho' they were not idle during that Time ; 
 for firft they feized all the Arms and Horfes they 
 could lay their Hands on, efpecially fuch^ as be- 
 Jong'd to thofe who were well-affeaed Subjeds to 
 the King. Next, here Mr. Buxton went to the 
 Minifter of the Town, and defired him or his Curate 
 
 C 2 to 
 
[ 2« ] 
 
 to read Prayers, commanding that in them he fliould 
 mention the Pretender by Name, as King Javus 
 III. The Minifter modefbly decHned it, (for there 
 was no fpeaking boldly to them ;) fo Mr. Buxton 
 officiated, and performed as ufual. It was reported-, 
 that the Curate Mr. Richard/on had promifed to join 
 the Rebels, and there are ftrong Prefumptions to 
 believe that as Matter of Fad. The Night before 
 they left the Town, they were all drawn round the 
 Crofs in the Market- Place, where the Pretender vfus 
 proclaimed, and the Proclamation fixed to the Crofs ; 
 which remain'd there feveral Days after the Rebels 
 were gone ; which fome fay, is an Evidence of that 
 Town's good IncHnation to His Majefty King 
 George •, and others added, that the BaihfF and 
 Clerk were too much of the Principles of the Lord 
 
 '6f their Manor, Sir fF Bla — , elfe they 
 
 would have exerted their Authority, and fhewed 
 their Loyalty, in pulling down that Proclamation. 
 -Here the Rebels had notice of the Vifcount Kenmure, 
 Earls of Nitbfdale, Carnwath, and Wintoun, who 
 had taken Arms in Nith/daie, Dumfries - /hire , 
 and other Places in the Weft of Scotland, having 
 entred England to join them, and that they were 
 come to Rothhury. The Vifcount Kemnure, the 
 only Nobleman in that part of Scotland capable of 
 commanding Forces upon that Account, was foli- 
 cited by the Earl of Mar to take up Arms for the 
 Pretender, and to command fuch Forces as would 
 join him on that fide t\\t Forth. At firft, he refus'd 
 this Offer, but being importun'd by the Jacobites 
 in that Country, he, at laft, was prevailed with to 
 fet up the Pretenderh Standard at a fmall Town in 
 Annandale, called Mophet. This Standard, fuppofed 
 to be made by his Lady, was very handfome, one 
 fide being Blue, with the Scot\ Arms done in Gold ; 
 the other fide a Thiftle, with this under. No Union 
 above the Thiftle, the ufual Motto, Nemo me im- 
 
 ' pine 
 
[ 27 ] 
 
 -pune laceffd. This Standard had Pendants of white 
 Kibbon ; upon one of thefe was written, For our 
 Wronged King, and Oppreffed Counlry ; the other 
 Ribbon had thereon, For our Lives a?id Liberties. 
 This Standard was fet up the firft Night they made 
 their Appearance. Being late, next Day being the 
 13 th oiOMer, they marched towards P//?/2/rz>j, with 
 Defign to furprize that Town ; but the Marquis of 
 Anmndale, whom they had followed the Day be- 
 fore, having none but his Servants along with him, 
 entred the Town, and concerted fuch Meafures as 
 made that Defign abortive which obliged them to 
 alter their Rout, tho' many Difputes happened here- 
 upon, but at lafl; agreed to march to Lough7naben 
 that Night, where next Day they fet up their Stand- 
 ard, and proclaimed the Pretender. This Town 
 was the firft Place, on this Side the Forth of Scot- 
 land, where the Pretender was proclaimed, and his 
 Standard fet up. This Day the Standard was car- 
 ried by John Dalziel Efq-, Brother to the Earl of 
 Carnwath. On the 14th .of this Month they march'd 
 to Achelfechen. On their March thither, on a Com- 
 mon, being in all near 200 Horfe, they were formed 
 into a Regiment, divided into two Squadrons. The 
 chief Command to Vifcount Kenmure, that of each 
 Squadron to the Earls of IVinioun and Carnwath, 
 Hence they marched regularly, and fent their Quar- 
 ter-Mafter- General Mr. Calderwood, to take up 
 Quarters for them. Next Day they continued their 
 March to Langholm, behaving themfelves all along 
 civil in their Quarters. From thence they conti- 
 nued their Rout to Hawick. Upon thefe Marches 
 their Number increafed. , At this Place they were 
 alarm'd, which raifed fome Difputes whether they 
 fhould proceed. They agreed to return, but had 
 an Exprefs from Mr. Forfier about two Miles, from 
 Hawick, towards Langholm. This MefTenger, Mr. 
 jPouglafs, had an Invitation fron^ the Northumberland 
 ^ C 3 General 
 
[28] 
 
 General to my Lord Kenmure and his Followers, 
 to meet him at Rothhury : So they faced about, 
 and marched that Night to Jedburgh. Here they 
 received Intelligence of the MackintoJh\ crofllng the 
 Forth^ and the Duke of ArgyU\ Refolution to attack 
 them, which put them into mighty Pain how the 
 Confequence would prove. It is to beobferved, that 
 they were alarmed in marching to Jedburgh : Being 
 late, their Advance Guard was furpriz'd by the 
 Shouts of one who called out, That the Grey Horfe 
 were ready to fall upon them, and had cut the 
 Quarter-Mafter and thofe with him into pieces. 
 Thofe acquainted with the Qiiarter-Mafter alTured 
 Lord Kenmure, that he would by no means be fo 
 Cafily enfnar'd, being better ufed to Military Affairs ; 
 fo they continued their March, and entred the Town 
 without Oppofition. Here, as in moft other Towns, 
 they proclamed the Pretender ; next Morning pro- 
 ceeded to Rothbury^ perhaps fuch a March as few 
 People are acquainted with, being very mountainous, 
 long, tedious, and marfhy. From Rothbury they 
 difpatched Mr. Burnett of Carlips to Hexam, to 
 Mr. Forjler, to know his Mind, whether he would 
 come towards them, or they Jfhould advance ? He 
 returned an Exprefs, that he would join them. This 
 Mr. Burnett afterwards carried the above-mentioned 
 Standard ; a Gentleman of comely Appearance ; 
 was afterwards Try'd, found Guilty, and Executed 
 in Lancajhire. Upon this News, but more efpe- 
 cially on the aforefaid News of General Carpenter 
 preparing to attack them, they march'd out of 
 Hexam, Wednefday the 19th of Ohoher, and making 
 a long March, they joined them and their Men that 
 Night ; and both of them next Day march'd to 
 Wooler in the County of Northumberland. Here 
 they refted z\\ Friday, where I, with fome Men 
 which I had inlifted, being Keel-men, overtook 
 them upon Rothhury Foreft : I fufpedled them for 
 
 fome 
 
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 fome of the Militia, and kept at a diftance ; but 
 difcovering they had no Arms, made up to them, 
 and afked them what News, and whither they de- 
 fi<yned? They anfwered, (but elpecially one, a brave 
 ft?ut young Fellow,) We are Scotfmen, to our 
 Homes to join our Countrymen that are in Arms for 
 King James. I told him, he was 'uery hold. Sir, 
 (fays he) /'// drink his Health juft now : So with his 
 Bonnet, which he dipt into a Runner, he faid. 
 Here is King James'^ Health which all his Partners 
 did. After this, I told them. If they were fincere, 
 and would follow me, I would bring them to their 
 Countrymen. Which they promifed to do. I gave 
 each of them a Shilling. Drawing near the Town, 
 I left them under a Hedge, 'till I could enquire 
 what was become of the Rebels, and if we could 
 by ourfelves lodge fafely there. I enquired for the 
 beft Inn, being direded there, where I found Mr. 
 Charles Wogan\ Man who came with me from 
 Hemm, but parted for fear of being taken. He 
 gave me a Pair of Piftols ; fo I returned to my 
 Companions, and brought them quietly into Town, 
 both wet and weary, and immediately went to the 
 Head Conftable, and told him, that if he would 
 give us no Difturbance, we would ftay all Night 
 civily, paying for what we had ; but if he intended 
 to make a Prey of us, our Friends being gone, we 
 would then follow them. He made fair Promifes, 
 but not daring to truft him too much, made him 
 fure in his own Houfe ; fo that we watched him by- 
 turns 'till early next Day we fet out from this 
 Town Rothhury for Woolery and there joined_ the 
 Englifh and Scots Horfe, and was kindly entertained 
 - by the Chiefs, Here Mr. Errington brought theni 
 -an Account of the Highlanders being alfo coming to 
 join them, and that they were advanced to Dunfe, 
 of which a full Account has been given already 
 On this News they march'd for Kjslfo m Scotland. 
 
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 On this Day's March they feized feveral Horfes, 
 and made Mr. Selbye a Gentleman of that Country 
 Prifoner. A little before they came to ' Kelfo, they 
 made a Halt upon a Moor ; and there the Gentle- 
 men formed into Troops, were drawn out by them- 
 felves, and called over, not only by their Names, 
 but by their defign'd Offices for the feveral Troops : 
 And It is to be obferv'd, that to each Troop they 
 affigned Two Captains, being the only way they 
 had to oblige fo many Gentlemen. Whllft they 
 were thus employed, there came fome Townfmen 
 from Kelfo, and acquainted the Rebels that Sir JVil- 
 liam Bennet of Gruhhet, who had been in Kelfo, and 
 had barricado'd the Town, pretending to keep Poft 
 there, had gone off in the Night with his Men, 
 who were only Militia and Servants, and that they 
 might enter the Town without Oppofition ; fo they 
 continued their March, and croffing the River 
 i:wede^ tho' very deep at that Time, and rapid, 
 they entred the Town. The Highlanders came into 
 the Town prefently after from the Scots Side, with 
 their Bag-pipes playing, led by old Mackinto/h 
 but they made a very indifferent Figure; for the 
 Rain and their long Marches had extremely fatigued 
 ^em, tho' their old Brigadier, who march'd at the 
 Head of them appear'd very well. Next Day being 
 Sunday the 23d of OMer, my Lord Kenmure ha- 
 ving the chief Command in Scotland, ordered me to 
 preach at the Great Kirk of Kelfo, and not at the 
 Epifcopal Meeting-Houfe, and gave further Orders 
 that all the Men Ihould attend Divine Service. Mr. 
 Buxton read Prayers, and 1 preached on thefe Words* 
 Beut, xxi. 17. the latter part of the Verfe, rhe Right 
 of the Firft-born is his. All the Lords that were 
 Proteftants, with a vaft Muldtude of Papifts at- 
 tended, who have fince told me, they were willing 
 fo to do, to grace the Caufe ; but withal faid. They 
 did not fee but they may be allowed fo to do, for 
 
 they 
 
[30 
 
 they approved very well of our Liturgy, which 'till 
 then they never heard. It may be faid, that the 
 Service of the Church of England had never been 
 read in any Church on this fide of the Forth in 
 Scotland before. This Church in its former Days, 
 has been very large, lofty, and beautiful, whofe 
 Porch, and other Remains, fpeak its former Splen- 
 dor. The Church-yard is very large and neat. It was 
 very agreeable, to fee how decently and reverently 
 the very common Highlanders behav'd, and anfwer*d 
 the Refponfes according to the Rubrickjto the Shame 
 of many that pretend to more polite Breeding. In the 
 Afternoon Mr. JViUia?n Irwine a Scots Clergyman 
 and Nonjuror read Prayers, and preach'd a Sermon 
 full of Exhortations to his Hearers, to be zealous 
 and fteady in the Caufe : He told me afterwards that 
 he had formerly preach'd the fame Sermon in the 
 }:^\^\mdso^ Scotland^ to the Lord VifcountD^^W<?^ 
 and his Men, when they were in Arms againft King 
 William, a little before the Battle of Gilly cranky. 
 The Sermon was very well digefted, and fuited 
 fitly for the Men that heard it. I muft take no- 
 tice, that it has been reported that there were other 
 Sermons preached on our Marches ; and I have feeh 
 fuch Things written in the Publick Prints, with 
 the Texts of Scripture alledged to have been the 
 Subjedl of fuch Difcourfes ; but nothing is rriore 
 falfe, for other Sermons than thefe had we none. 
 Next Morning the Highlanders were drawn up in 
 the Church-yard, and fo march'd in Order to the 
 Market-place, with Colours flying, Drums beating, 
 and Bag-pipes playing, and there formed a Circle, 
 the Lords and other Gentlemen ftanding in the 
 Centre : There was an inner Circle formed alfo by 
 the Gentlemen Voluntiers : Then Silence being en- 
 joined, the Trumpet founded ; after which the Pre- 
 tender was proclaimed by one Seaton Barnes, who 
 
 affum*d 
 
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 aflfumM the Title of Earl of Bumferling. The Pro- 
 clamation was to this Effed; : 
 
 " Whereas by the Deceafe of the late King 
 *' Ja7nes the Vllth, the Imperial Crowns of thefe 
 *' Realms did lineally defcend to his lawful Heir 
 ** and Son our Sovereign James the Vlllth : We 
 *' the Lords, ^c. do declare him our lawful King 
 *' over Scotlandy England^ Sec." 
 
 Then was read the following Manifefto of the 
 Earl of Mar, 
 
 MAN IFESHO hy the Noblemen^ Gentlemen^ 
 and others^ who dutifully appear at this 1'ime in 
 ajferting the undoubted Right of their lawful Sove- 
 reign James VIII. hy the Grace of God^ King of 
 Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defen- 
 der of the Faithi &c. and for relieving this his an^ 
 cient Kingdon fxotn the Oppreffion and Grievances it 
 lies under, 
 
 " TT^^ Majefty's Right of Blood to the Crowns 
 JL Ml. of thefe Realms is undoubted, and has 
 never been difputed or arraigned by the leaft Cir- 
 *' cumftance of lawful Authority. 
 
 " By the Laws of God, by the ancient Confti- 
 *' tutions, and by the pofitive unrepeal'd Laws of 
 the Land, we are bound to pay his Majefty the 
 Duty of Loyal Subjects. Nothing can abfolve 
 *' us from this our Duty of Subjection and Obe- 
 *' dience •, the Laws of God require our Allegiance 
 *' to our rightful King 5 the Laws of the Land fe- 
 *' cure our Religion and other Interefts ; and his 
 *' Majefty giving up himfelf to the Support of his 
 Proteftants Subjects, puts the Means of fecuring 
 *' to us our Concerns Religious and Civil in our 
 *' own Hands. 
 
 Our 
 
[ 33 ] 
 
 " Our fundamental Conftitution has been entirely 
 altered and funk amidft the various Shocks of 
 *' unliable Fadion ; while in the fearchlng out new 
 ** Expedients, pretended Kk our Security, it has 
 *' produced nothing but daily Difappointments, 
 *' and has brought us and our Pofterity under a 
 " precarious Dependance upon foreign Councils and 
 " Interefts, and the Power of foreign Troops. 
 *' The late unhappy Union, which was brought 
 
 about by the miftaken Notions of fome, and the 
 *' ruinous and felfifli Defigns of others, has prov'd 
 *' fo far from leflening and healing the Differences 
 " betwixt his Majefty's Subjefts of Scotland and 
 *' England^ that it has widened and increafed them s 
 *' and it appears by Experience fo inconfiftent with 
 
 the Rights, Privileges, and Interefts of us and 
 " our good Neighbours and Feilow-Subjeds of 
 " England, that the Continuance of it muft inevita- 
 " bly ruin us, and hurt them. Nor can any Way 
 <' be found out to relieve us, and reftore our an- 
 " cient and independent Conftitution, but by re- 
 *' ftoring our rightful and natural King, who has 
 
 the only undoubted Right to reign over us : Nei- 
 " ther can we hope that the Party who chiefly con- 
 " tribute to bring us into Bondage, will at any 
 " time endeavour to work our Relief; fince it is 
 *' known how ftrenuoufly they oppofed, in Two 
 *' late Inftances, the Efforts that were made by all 
 «' Scotfmen by themfelves, and fupported by the 
 
 beft and wifeft of the Englijh, towards fo defira- 
 *' ble an End, as they will not adventure openly to 
 *' difown the Diffolution of the Union to be. 
 
 " Our Subftance has been wafted in the late 
 
 ruinous Wars and we fee an unavoidable Pro- 
 
 fped. of having Wars continued on us and our 
 «' Pofterity, fo long as the Poffeflion of the Crown 
 
 is not in the right Line. 
 
 The 
 
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 " The Hereditary Rights of the Subjects, tho' 
 confirm'd by Conventions and Parliaments, are 
 *' now treated as of no Value or Force ; and paft 
 *' Service to the Crowrt'^nd Royal Family, are now 
 *' look'd upon as Grounds of Sufpicion. 
 
 " A pack'd-up Afifembly, who call themfelves 
 a Brit'ijh Parliament^ have, as far as in them lies, 
 " inhumanly murder'd their own and our Sovereign, 
 *' by promifing a great Sum of Money as the Re- 
 ^' ward of fo execrable a Crime. 
 
 " They have profcribed, by unaccountable and 
 groundlefs Impeachments and Attainders, the 
 *' worthy Patriots of England^ for their honourable 
 and fuccefsful Endeavours to reft ore Trade, Plen- 
 *^ ty, and Peace to thefe Nations. 
 
 " They have broken in upon the Laws of both 
 *' Countries, by which the Liberty of our Perfons 
 *' was fecured ; they have empowered a Foreign 
 Prince Cwho notwithftanding his Expectation of 
 *' the Crown for 15 Years, is flill unacquainted 
 *' with our Manners, Cuftoms, and Language) to 
 *' make an abfolute Conqueft (if not timely pre- 
 *' vented) of the Three Kingdoms, by invefting 
 " himfelf with an unlimited Power, not only of 
 raifing unneceflary Forces at Home, but alfo of 
 calling in Foreign Troops, ready to promote his 
 *' uncontroulable Defigns : Nor can we be ever 
 ** hopeful of its being otherwife, in the Way it is 
 *' in at prefent, for fome Generations to come. And 
 " the fad Confequences of thefe unexampled Pro- 
 ceedings have really been fo fatal to great Num- 
 *' bers of our Kinfmen, Friends, and Fellow-Sub- 
 ** jefts of both Kingdoms, that they have been 
 conftrain'd to abandon their Country, Houfes, 
 Wives, and Children, or give themfelves up 
 Prifoners, and perhaps Vidims to be facrificed 
 " at the Pleafure of Foreigners, and a few hot- 
 
 " headed 
 
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 headtd Men of a reftlefs Fadlion whom they 
 ** employ. 
 
 *' Our Troops Abroad, notwithftanding of their 
 " long and remarkable good Services; have been 
 " treated, fince the Peace, with Negled and Con- 
 " tempt, and particularly in /^i'/Z^/z^i ; and it is not 
 " now the Officers long Service, Merit, and Blood 
 " they have loft, but Money and Favour, by which 
 " they can obtain Juftice in their Preferments ; fo 
 *' that it is evident the Safety of his Majefty*s Perfon 
 " and Independency of his Kingdoms, call loudly 
 for immediate Relief and Defence. 
 " The Confideration of thefe unhappy Circum^ 
 " ftances, with the due Regard we have to com^ 
 " mon Juftice, the Peace and Quiet to us and our 
 *' Pofterity, and our Duty to his Majefty and his, 
 *' Commands, are powerful Motives that have: en<- 
 *' gaged us in our prefent Undertakings •, which we 
 are firmly and heartily refolved to pulh to the 
 " utmoft, and ftand by one another to the kft Eto- 
 " tremity, as the only folid and effectual Means of 
 putting an End to fo dreadful a Profped, as by 
 " our prefent Situation we have before our Eyes ; 
 " and with faithful Hearts, true to our only right- 
 *' ful King, our Country, and our Neighbours, 
 " we earneftly befeech and expe6t (as his Majefty'^s 
 *' Commands) the Afliftance of all our true Fellow- 
 " Subjeds, to fecond this our firft Attempt ; de- 
 " daring hereby our fincere Intentions, That we 
 *' will promote and concur, in all lawful Means, 
 " for fettling a lafting Peace to thefe Lands, under 
 " the aufpicious Government of our native-born 
 " rightful Sovereign, the Diredion of our Do- 
 *« meftick Councils, and the Protection of ouF) nsf- 
 " tive Forces and Troops. ' 
 
 *' That we will in the fame manner concur and 
 " endeavour to have our Laws, Liberties, and Prd- 
 " perties fecured by the Parliaments of both Kinjg- 
 
 " doms : 
 
[3^1 
 
 •« doms : That by the Wifdom of fuch Parliaments, 
 *' we will endeavour to have fuch Laws enafted, 
 
 as fiiall give abfolute Security to us, and future 
 *' Ages, for the Proteftant Religion, againft all 
 " Efforts of Arbitrary Power, Popery, and all its 
 *' other Enemies. Nor have we any Reafon to be 
 
 diftruftful of the Goodnefs of God, the Truth 
 ** and Purity of our Holy Religion, or the known 
 ^« Excellency of his Majefty*s Judgment, as not 
 ** to hope that in due Time, good Example, and 
 *' Converfation with our learned Divines, will re- 
 ** move thefe Prejudices, which we know his Edu- 
 ** cation in a Popifli Country has not riveted in 
 *' his difcerning Mind ; and we are fure, as Juftice 
 " is a Virtue in all Religions and Profeffions, fo 
 " the doing of it to him, will not leffen his good 
 
 Opinion of ours. 
 
 " That as the King is willing to give his Royal 
 
 Indemnity for all that is paft, fo he will chear- 
 " fully concur in pafling general Ads of Oblivion, 
 *' that our Fellow-Subjeds who have been mifled, 
 *' may have a fair Opportunity of living with us 
 *' in the fame friendly Manner we defign to live 
 *' with them. 
 
 " That we will ufe our utmoft Endeavours for 
 ^« redreffing the bad Ufage of our Troops Abroad, 
 " and bringing the Troops at Home to be on the 
 " fame Foot and Eftablifliment of Pay as thofe of 
 
 England. 
 
 *' That we will fincerely and heartily go into 
 *' fuch Meafures as fhall maintain effeftually, and 
 " eftabliHi a right, firm, and lading Union betwixt 
 *' his Majefty's ancient Kingdom of Scotland, and 
 *' our good Neighbours and Fellow-Subjeds of the 
 *' Kingdom of England. 
 
 " The Peace of thefe Nations being thus fettled, 
 *' and we thus freed from Foreign Dangers, we will 
 " ufe our Endeavours to have the Army reduced 
 
 " to 
 
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 to the ufual Number of Guards and Garifons % 
 and will concur in fuch Laws and Mediods, as 
 {hall relieve us of the heavy Taxes and Debts 
 now lying upon us, and at the fame time will 
 fupport the Publick Credit in all its Parts. 
 " And we do hereby promife and engage. That 
 ' every Officer who joins with us in our King and 
 ' Country's Caufe, fhall not only enjoy the Poll 
 « he now does, but lhall be advanced and preferred 
 ' according to his Rank and Station, and the Num- 
 « ber of Men he brings off with him to us and 
 ^ each Foot-Soldier fo joining with us, lhall have 
 
 * Twenty Shillings Sterling and each Trooper or 
 ' Dragoon, who brings Horfe and Accoutrements 
 ' along with him. Twelve Pounds Sterling Gra- 
 ' tuity, befides their Pay. 
 
 " And in general, we fhall concur with all our 
 ' Fellow-Subjeds in fuch Meafures, as fhall make 
 
 * us flourifh at Home, and be formidable Abroad, 
 ' under our rightful Sovereign, and the peaceful 
 ' Harmony of our ancient fundamental Conftitu- 
 ' tion, undiflurbed by a Pretender's Interefts and 
 ' Councils from Abroad, or a reftlefs Fa6lion at 
 ' Home. 
 
 *' In fo honourable, fo good, and jufl a Caufe, 
 " we do not doubt of the AfTiflance, Diredion, 
 *' and BlefTing of Almighty God, who has fo oft- 
 " en fuccour'd the Royal Family of Stuarts^ 
 
 and our Country, from finking under Op- 
 *' prefTion." 
 
 This Manifeflo being ended, the People with loud 
 Acclamations fhouted, NO Union ! NO Mali, NO 
 Salt'TAXl Then the Highlanders returned to their 
 Quarters, where they continued till Thurfday ; du- 
 ring which time nothing material happened, but that 
 they failed not here, as well as in all Places, to de- 
 mand all the Publick Revenues, 'viz. of Excife, 
 
 Cuftoms, 
 
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 Cufloms, or Taxes, and to fearch for Arms, of 
 which they found very few, unlefs fome fmall Pieces 
 of Cannon of different Size and Shape, which for- 
 merly belonged to Hume-Cafile, and had been em- 
 plo/d in former Ages in that Strong- Hold againft 
 the Englijhy but were at this time brought thence by 
 Sir WiUiam Bennet aforefaid, to be placed at the Bar- 
 ricadoes which he had made in the Streets leading 
 to the Market- Place : They likewife found fome 
 broad Swords hid in the Church, and a fmall Quan- 
 tity of Gunpowder. There happened a very uncom- 
 mon Accident while they remained here, which is 
 worth recording for the Angularity of it a Highlander 
 having taken the Lock from his Muiket, he laid 
 down the Barrel, i^c. crofs the Arms of a Chair, 
 whilft he at two Yards diftance having cleaned, and 
 trying the Lock, a fpark of Fire flew from it di- 
 redly, and moft exadtly to the Touch-hole of the 
 Piece which was loaded, and went off and wounded 
 three Children fitting round the Fire And it was 
 the more ftrange, that at fuch a Diftance, by meer 
 Chance, a Spark fhould diredt its way to the Touch- 
 hole, and the Bullet Ihould wound all the three Chil- 
 dren, who did not fit in a Line. 
 
 There were no Hoftilities ufed here, only the 
 Horfe going out a Foraging, went to a Seat of the 
 Duke of Roxburgh's near the Town, and brought 
 in fome Hay. While they continued here. Dr. 
 Arthur, a Gentleman, concerned in thatdefigned At- 
 tempt upon the Caftle of Edinburgh^ of very good 
 Parts, and generous Education, and one Mr. Cun~ 
 mnghajn of Barnes, came from the Earl of Mar 
 with Intelligence, and returned to him again after 
 "which, the fame Gentlemen came again to the Re- 
 bels when at Prefion. Before I leave this Town, , 1 
 fhall give fome Account of what Force the Rebel- 
 Troops now confifted, as well becaufe they were 
 more in Number at that time, and better armed 
 
 Men 
 
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 Men than at any time after ; as alfo becaule fo many 
 different Accounts of tlieir Numbers have been 
 made publick, that it is not eafy to know what may 
 be depended upon. The Lord Vifcount Kenmure 
 had the chief Command whilft in Scotland: He was 
 a grave, full-aged Gentleman, of a very ancient Fa- 
 mily, and he himfelf of extraordinary Knowledge 
 and Experience in Publick and Political Bufinefs, 
 though utterly a Stranger to all Military Affairs of 
 a fingular good Temper, and too Calm and Mild to 
 be qualified for fuch a Poft, being both plain in his 
 Brefs^ and in his Addrefs. He made his firft Ren- 
 dezvous at Lochmahhen : He had a Troop of Gen- 
 tlemen with him, which, as he was General, was 
 call'd the Firft Troop, the Command of which he 
 gave to the Honourable Bazil Hamilton of Beldoun^ 
 Son to the Lord Bazil Hamilton, Brother to the 
 late Duke Hamilton, a very promifing Youth, and 
 who behaved himfelf with a great deal of Courage 
 in the A6lion at Pre/Ion, tho' but very young. 
 
 The Second Troop was called the Merfe Troop, 
 commanded by the Honourable James Hume, Efq; 
 Brother to the Earl of Hume, who at that time was 
 Prifoner in Edinburgh Caftle. This Youth is of a 
 good Temper, but not very capable of having the 
 Command of a Troop, as well on account of his 
 Age, as other Incapacities. He was try'd at the 
 Marjhalfea, and found Guilty. 
 
 The Third Troop, called the Earl of JVintomth 
 Troop, and commanded by himfelf. This Earl' is 
 of a very ancient Family, wants no Courage, nor 
 fo much Capacity as his Friends find it for his In- 
 tereft to fuggeft, efpecially if we may judge by the 
 Counfel he gave : He was always forward for A6tion, 
 but never for the March into England ; and he 
 ceafed not to thwart the Scheme which the Northum- 
 berland Gentlemen laid down for marching into 
 England, not fo much from the Ce'-tainty, which, 
 
 D as 
 
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 as he faid, there was of their being over-power'd, 
 as from the greater Opportunity, which, as he in- 
 fifted, there was of doing Service to their Caufc in. 
 Scotland ; in order to which, he argued with and 
 preffed them back into Scotland^ and leaving Edin- 
 burgh and Stirling to their Fate, to go and join the 
 Weftern Clans, attacking in their Way the Town of 
 Dumfreis, and Glafgow^ and other Places, and then 
 open a Communication with the Earl of Mar 
 and his Forces. Which Advice, if followed, in 
 all probability would have tended to their great Ad- 
 vantage, the King's Forces being then fo fmall. 
 However therefore fome People have reprefented 
 that Lord, of which I fhall fay no more, all his 
 Adions both before a Prifoner, and whilft fuch, 
 till he made his Efcape out of the Tower, fpeak him 
 to be Mailer of more Penetration, than many of thofe 
 whofe Chara6lers fuffer no Blemifh as to their Un- 
 derftandings. The Command of this Troop he af- 
 figned, under himfelf, to Captain James Dalziel, 
 Brother to the Earl of Carnwath, who had been in 
 King George's Service formerly, and continued 
 an Half-pay Officer for fome time ; but upon en- 
 gaging in the Rebellion, he threw up his Commif- 
 fion which piece of Policy was the faving of his 
 Life, and prevented his being (hot to death at Pre- 
 fton by Sentence of the Court-Marfhal among the 
 Half-pay Officers. He was a very bold and brave 
 young Gentleman, and fhew'd it upon all Occa- 
 fions. 
 
 The Fourth Troop belonged to Robert Dalziel, 
 Earl of Carnwath: This Nobleman was brought 
 up under the Tuition of One who made it his ftu- 
 dy'd Care to inftill the Principles of Hereditary 
 Right, Paffive Obidience, and Non-Refiftance into 
 his Mind. He fludy'd fome time at Cambridge, and 
 there fucked in an entire AfFedion for the Liturgy 
 and Worfliip in ufe in the Church of England, of 
 
 which 
 
[ 41 ] 
 
 Which he vras a fincere Devotee. He is fingularly 
 good in his Temper, and of an agreeable Affabi- 
 lity, and delivers himfelf very handfomely in 
 his Difcourfe. The Command of this Troop he 
 gave over to his Uncle James Dahiel^ Efq-,. This 
 Gentleman has a very good Charafterj and gave 
 fufficient Dcmonftrations of his Affeftions to the 
 Pretender's Intereft, by his Courage and Condud. 
 
 The Fifth Troop was under the Command of 
 Captain Lockart, Brother to Mr. Lockart of Cam-- 
 wath : He was a Half-pay Officer in the Lord 
 Mark Ker's Regiment, and as fuch try'd at Prejion 
 by a Court-Martial ; by which being found Guilty 
 of Defertion, he, with three more, were (hot to 
 death there. He was a young Gentleman of a 
 comely Appearance, and very handfome : He 
 gave feveral Inftances of his Bravery. He died ve- 
 ry penitent for all his Sins, but would not acknow- 
 ledge that to be one for which he fuffer'd. It is be- 
 lieved, and not without good Reafon, that this 
 Troop was rais'd by his Brother's Intereft^ who is a 
 Gentleman of a good Eftate, one of the beft, per- 
 haps, in Scotland poffefled by a private Gentleman. 
 This Troop was compofed of feveral Servants be- 
 longing to the Laird of Carnwath, befides feveral 
 of his own Horfes : The Men were paid by Mr. 
 Auxton^ a Merchant of Edinburgh, who was en- 
 trufbed in all Mr. Lockart*s Concerns : And to con- 
 firm this, the Quarter-Mafter of this Troop was 
 Mr. La??ib, a Servant of Mr. Lockart'sy of good 
 Efteem with his Mafter. He himfelf was taken 
 into Cuftody upon fhrewd Sufpicions, and fent to 
 the Caftle of Edinburgh. If that Book was writ- 
 ten by him, called, ^he Memoirs of Scotland, he 
 may be called a Gentleman of deep Penetration, 
 and fmgular Affedion for his native Country, elfe 
 he would not make fo free with the Charafters 
 of a great many Noblemen and Gentlemen who 
 
 D 2 are 
 
[ 42 ] 
 
 are very little fufpefted to be the Men he makes 
 them. 
 
 Thefe Troops were well mann'd, and indifferent- 
 ly arm'd but many of the Horfes fmall, and in 
 mean Condition : Befides thefe Troops, there were 
 a great many Gentlemen Voluntiers^ who were not 
 formed into any regular Troop. 
 
 The Foot defign'd to crofs the Forth, were Regi- 
 mented under thefe Colonels, being Six Regiments 
 in all. 
 
 The Firft, the Earl of Strathmore\ •, but he and 
 his Lieutenant- Colonel fValkinJhaw of Barrowfield 
 were forced back in their Paflage by the King's 
 Men of War, with feveral others, and obliged to 
 go on fhore in the Ifle of May. This Regiment was 
 not in Highland- Drefs, as the others were. This 
 XiOrd was a hearty Friend of the Pretender's, and 
 had fome time before this RebelHon broke out, gi- 
 ven it under his Hand that he would be ready the 
 firft Opportunity to rife and aflift to eftablifh him 
 upon the Throne. This Paper, which was fign'd 
 by feveral others, was lodg'd in the Hands of Co- 
 lonel Hookes^ to be by him tranfported into France. 
 
 The Second Regiment was the Earl of Mar's. 
 I fhall here add his Chara6ler, given him by his 
 Countryman Mr. Lockart, in his Memoirs of Scot- 
 land. 
 
 " John Earl of Mar was defcended from, and 
 " the Reprefentative of a Family noted for its Loy- 
 " alty, on many Occafions both ancient and mo- 
 " dern, and much beholden to the Bounty of the 
 " Crown. It is true, his Father embark*d with the 
 *' Revolution: But if all be true that is reported, 
 " his Lordfhip gave a particular, tho' fatal Sigh of 
 " his Remorfe and Repentance. This prefent Gen- 
 " tleman's Fortune being in bad Circumftances , 
 " when he came of Age he devoted himfelf to the 
 " Duke of ^eenjherry^ and the Court Meafures, 
 
 *' to 
 
[ 43 ] 
 
 to which he always ftuck clofe, till in the Year 
 " 1 7 14, he headed fuch of the Duke of ^eenjber- 
 " rys Friends as oppos'd the Marquis of Tweedale, 
 
 and his Party's befigns, and that with fuch Art 
 " and Diflimulation, that he gain*d the Favour of 
 " all the Tories, and was by many of them efteem'd 
 " an honeft Man, and well inclin'd to the Royal 
 " Family. Certain it is he vowed and protefted fo 
 *' many times ; but no Iboner was the Marquis of 
 " ^weedale and his Party difpoffefs'd, than he re- 
 " turned as a Bog to the Vomit, and promoted all 
 " the Court Meafures with the greateft Zeal ima- 
 " ginable. He was not a Man of a good coram 
 " voUs, and was a very bad, tho* frequent Speaker 
 *' in Parliament ; but his great Talent lay in the 
 " cunning Management of his Defigns and Projeds, 
 " in which it was hard to find him out when he 
 " aim'd to be incognito ; and thus he fhew'd himfelf 
 ^' to be a Man of good Senfe, but bad Morals. 
 
 His Regiment came not entire over the Forth, 
 for at Prejion there were only thefe Officers taken 
 Prifoners, 'uiz. Nathanael Forbes Major, a Man fin- 
 gularly brave, of pleafant Difcourfe, mixing the 
 Thread thereof with a great many Scots Proverbs, 
 which were very well apply'd, and gave great En- 
 tertainment to thofe that were acquainted with that 
 Dialed. He was very ftrong, and by the Help 
 thereof forced his way out of the Marjhalfea. The 
 other Officers were three Captains and three Lieu- 
 tenants (whofe Names are in the Lift of Officers 
 hereafter mentioned j) the reft were driven back by 
 the King's Men of War upon the Coaft of Fife, 
 
 The Third, hogie Drummond's. This Regiment 
 came not entire over the Forth, being driven back 
 on the Fz/>-fide, with many more i for of the 2500 
 defigned to crofs the Firth, the better Half were 
 prevented. He that had the Command of this 
 Regiment was one of thof? that figned an Anfwer 
 
 D 3 to 
 
[ 44 ] 
 
 to Monfieiir de 'Toni*s Queftions, which gave a di- 
 ftinft Reiblution to each Qiiery, containing a fu]| 
 Account of the State of Affairs particularly an 
 Account of the Inclinations of the People, to ven- 
 ture All for the Chevalier's Service : This was when 
 the People ot Scotland were diflatisfy'd about the 
 Union, in the Year 1707. This Paper was like- 
 wife lodg'd in the Hands of Colonel fiookes, to be 
 by him tranfported into France. 
 
 The Fourth, the Lord Nairffs^ Brother to the 
 Duke of Athol\ but by marrying an Heirefs, ac- 
 cording to the Cuftom of Scotland, chang'd his own 
 Name for hers : He came over the Firth with a 
 good many of his Men. He is a Gentleman well 
 belov'd in his Country, and by all that had the Ad- 
 vantage to be acquainted with him : He had for- 
 merly been at Sea, and gave fignal Inftances of his 
 Bravery : He was a mighty Stickler againft the 
 Union. His Son, who was Lieutenant-Colonel to 
 Lord Charles, took a great deal of Pains to encou- 
 rage the Highlanders, by his own Experience, in 
 their hard Marches, and always went with them on 
 Foot through the worft and deepeft Ways, and in 
 Highland Drefs, 
 
 The Fifth Regiment was commanded by Lord 
 Charles Murray, a younger Son of the Duke of 
 Athol : He had been a Cornet of Horfe beyond Sea, 
 and had gained a mighty good Character for his 
 Bravery , even Temper , and graceful Deportment. 
 Upon all the Marches, he could never be prevailed 
 with to ride, but kept at the Head of his Regiment 
 on foot, in his Highland Drefs without Breeches : 
 He would fcarce accept of a Horfe to crofs the Ri- 
 vers, which his Men in that Seafon of the Year 
 forded above mid-thigh deep in Water. This pow- 
 erfully gained him the Affedion of his Men ; be- 
 fides, his Courage and Behaviour at a Barrier, where 
 his Majefty's Forces made a bpld Attack, was fin- 
 
 gularly 
 
[ 45 ] 
 
 gularly brave. When the Rebels furrendei-'d at Tre- 
 pn, he was made a Prifoner, and try'd for a De* 
 ferter, being a Half-pay Officer, found guilty, and 
 condemned to be fliot ; but he pleaded that he had 
 given, his Commifllon into the Hands of a Relation 
 before he enter'd the Rebellion : This, tho' he could not 
 bring any Proof of at that time, yet with his Friends 
 Intereft and his Majefty's gracious Reprieve, makes 
 him yet enjoy his Life. When he was fenfible that 
 he was to die, being removed to the Houfe of 
 Mr. Wingilby^ with the other Half-pay Officers, he 
 kept a true Decorum fuitabic to the Noblenefs of 
 his Mind and the Bravery of his Soul, ar^d not un* 
 fuitable to the Circumftance he was in. 
 
 The Sixth Regiment was called Mackintojh's Bat- 
 talion, a Relation of the Brigadier's, who is Chief 
 of that Clan. He is of an ancient Family, defcend- 
 ed from the old "thanes of Fife, His Name, in the 
 Irijh or Highland Language, difcovers his Defcent ; 
 for 'tojh fignifies "Thane, and Mac Son. His Motto 
 to his Coat of Arms is comical as well as remark- 
 able , "touch not the Cat without your Glove ; which 
 Coat of Arms is fupported by two wild Cats, and 
 has a Cat for the Creft. The Earl of Weefns is de- 
 fcended from the fame thane of Fife \ and it is dif- 
 puted whether he or Mackintojh are elder, tho' cer- 
 tain it is that the Earl of Weeim retains a confidera- 
 ble Part of thane\ Eftate. , Whether Mackintojh be 
 elder or younger, he left Fife, and made a Purchafe 
 in the North, where his Succefibrs have lived for 
 feveral Hundreds of Years in handfome and fplen- 
 did manner, and married the Heirefs of Clancattan, 
 whereof Mackintojh became the Head, and Chief; 
 which has a great many Tribes, or Followers, 
 viz. the M'pherfotfs, the Farquarjon's of Brae Mar, 
 the M'gilwrofs, the Shaw's, M'heans, M' queens, 
 Bmith's, and Clark's, &c. which joined together, 
 make a numerous Clan. Mackintojh, in all old 
 D 4 Grants, 
 
[ 46 3 
 
 Grants, Charters, Patents, and Bonds, and feveral 
 Letters from Kings, yet extant, is call'd Captain of 
 Clancattan ; And Buchanan in his Annals mentions 
 him often, Cateneorum Dux 'Tribus, in other Places 
 lliles them Gens Ferox. They had four hundred 
 Years conttant Wars and Broils with the Camerons 
 and Cumings, of old very confiderable in Scotland, 
 whom he overcame. This Tribe, for their Loyalty 
 and good Service at the Battel of JVardlaw, famous 
 in Scots Hiftory, got an Eftate call'd Brae Lochaber, 
 of which he is ftill poiTeffed. His Family is men- 
 tioned often by ^w^rto^;? , Boetius, Lejley^ ^c. It 
 is to be obferved that the M'pherfon's^ Part of this 
 Tribe, out of fome diftant View, would not on this 
 Occafion follow their Chieftain, but formed them- 
 felves into a feparate Regiment for their Mafter the 
 Pretender : Tho' they promifed great Things, yet 
 it is well known how they behav'd at Sheriff-Moor ; 
 for they flood within View of the Battel, but never 
 drew a Sword or fired a Gun ; like the M'gregors 
 under Rob. Roy, the Stuarts, and Catnerons. Seaforth*^ 
 Men, except thole of Kintail, miflDehav'd. Stuart 
 ofjppin's Men, and mofl: Part of the Frazers, were 
 at Perth with Frazerdale ; but upon Notice of Lo~ 
 vat's Arrival in the North they deferted the Preten- 
 der, and returned to the Service of King George. 
 This Regiment came entire over the Forth. He is 
 a Gentleman that few People expeded in the Rebel- 
 lion , having always appeared on the other Side ; 
 but the Perfuafions of the Brigadier prevailed with 
 him. He is a handfome brave young Gentleman, of 
 a very confiderable Intereft in his own Country ; for 
 he can bring into the Field upon any Occafion looo 
 ftout, hardy, and well-armed Men. 
 
 Befides thefe Six Regiments (a Lift of whofe Of- 
 Hcers are hereafter inferted) there were a confidera- 
 ble Number call'd The Gendemen Voluntiers, com- 
 manded by Captain Skeen and Captain Mac-lean, 
 
 Lieutenant 
 
[ 47 3 
 
 Lieutenant David ' Stewart^ and Enfign John Dun- 
 bar, formerly an Excifeman. 
 
 The Englijh were not altogether fo well regulated, 
 nor fo well armed as the Scots. The Troops were 
 thefe : 
 
 Firft, the Earl of Duwentwater's^ commanded 
 by his Brother Charles Radcliffe Efq; and Captain 
 John Sbaftoe. That Earl being a Papift, and a 
 Relation of the Pretender's, having it feems had the 
 Opportunity of being perfdnally acquainted with 
 him, all thefe Circumftances unhappily concurred to 
 draw him into this Snare, to his Deftrudion, and 
 the utter Ruin of the moft fiourilhing Family in 
 that Part of Britain. 
 
 It was thought, however, that this Lord did not 
 join either fo heartily or fo premeditately in this Af- 
 fair as was expeded i for there is no doubt but he 
 might have brought far greater . Numbers of Men 
 into' the Field than he did ; the great Eftate he pof- 
 feffed, the Money he C(5uld command, his Intereft* 
 among the Gentlemen, and, which is above all, his 
 being fo well beloved a^ he was, could not have 
 fail'd to have procur'd him many hundreds of Fol- 
 lowers more than he had, if he had thought fit ; 
 for his Concerns in the Lead-Mines in Aljione-Moor 
 are very confiderable, where feveral hundreds of 
 Men are employ'd under him, and get their Bread 
 from him, whom, there is no doubt, he might ea- 
 fily have engaged : Befides this, the Sweetnefs of 
 his Temper and Difpofition, in- which he had few 
 Equals, had fo fecurM him the Affedion of all his^, 
 Tenants, Neighbours, and Dependants, that Mul- 
 titudes would have liv'd and dy'd with him : The 
 Truth is, he was a Man form'd by Nature to be 
 generally belov'd ; for he was of fo univerfal a Be- 
 neficence, that he feem'd to live for others. As he 
 liv'd among his own People, there he fpent his 
 Eftate, and continually did Offices of Kindnefs and 
 
 Good- 
 
C 48 ] 
 
 Good-neighbourhood to every body, as Opportu- 
 nity ofFer'd. He kept a Houfe of generous Hofpi- 
 tality and noble Entertainment, which few in that 
 Country do, and none come up to. He was very 
 charitable to poor and diftreffed Families on all Oc- 
 cafions, whether known to him or not, and whether 
 Papift or Proteftant. His Fate will be fenfibly felt 
 by a great many, who had no Kindnefs for the 
 Caufe he died in, and who heartily wifti he had not 
 forwarded his Ruin, and their Lofs, by his Indif- 
 cretion in joining in this mad as well as wicked Un- 
 dertaking. If the Warrant from the Secretary's Of- 
 fice for apprehending him had been made a greater 
 Secret than it was, he might have been taken, and 
 fo his Ruin have been prevented. His Brother is 
 young and bold, but too forward : He has a great 
 deal of Courage, which wants a few more Years, 
 and a better Caufe to improve it ; there is room to 
 hope he will never employ it in fuch an Adventure 
 again. 
 
 The Second Troop was the Lord JViddrington's^ 
 commanded by Mr. Thomas Errington of Beaufront, 
 This Lord's Family has been famous in former Days 
 for many noble Atchievements recorded in Hiftory ; 
 though there is but a fmall Part of that left in this 
 Lord, for I could never difcover any thing like 
 Boldnefs or Bravery in him, efpecially after his 
 Majefty's Forces came before Prejlon : But of this 
 hereafter. Mr. Errington that commanded his Lord- 
 fliip's Troop, is a Gentleman of a very ancient Fa- 
 mily in Northumberland, a younger Brother of the 
 Family of Errington: He has very good natural 
 Parts, and had been formerly an Officer in the French 
 Service, where he had got the Reputation of a good 
 Soldier. It is believed he would not have engaged 
 in this Rebellion, had not the many Obligations he 
 lay under to the Earl of Uerwentwater prevailed 
 with him. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Third Troop was commanded by Captaia 
 ^ohn Hunter^ born upon the River North-Tyne in 
 the County of Northumberland : He had obtained a 
 CommifTion in the latter End of Queen Anne's Reign 
 to raife an Independent Company^ but never receiv'd 
 ^ny Pay, nor lifted any Men, but when he made 
 ufe of that Commiffion now in the Rebellion. He 
 was famous for running uncuftomed Goods out of 
 Scotland into England. He behav'd with great Vi- 
 gour and Obftinacy in the Adtion at PrefioHy where 
 he took Poffellion of fome Houfes during the At- 
 tack, and galled that brave Regiment of Brigadier 
 JPreffon's, making a great Slaughter out of the 
 Windows : He has fince made his Efcape out of 
 Chefler-Ca.Me, and, as is faid, got over into Ireland^ 
 and from thence to France. 
 
 The Fourth Troop was commanded by Roheri 
 Douglafsy Brother to the Laird of Finland in Scot- 
 land: He fignalized himfelf upon feveral Accounts 5 
 for going fo often, fo privately, and expeditioufly 
 betwixt England and the Earl of Mar. He was the 
 Man who brought Mr. Forfier his Commiffion, and 
 the Manifeftoes and Declarations of the Pretender* 
 He was indefatigable in fearching for Arms and 
 Horfes, a Trade, fome were pleafed to fay, he had 
 followed out of the Rebellion as well as in it. Ha 
 was alfo very vigorous in the Adlion at PreSton ; 
 where he with his Men were pofleffed of feveral 
 Houfes, and did a great deal ojf Harm to his Ma-, 
 jefty's Forces from the Windows. He alfo made 
 his Efcape when a Frifoner either at Leverpool qr 
 Chewier, 
 
 To this Account of thefe two Gentlemen, I fliall 
 add a pleafant Story, which one was pleafed to re- 
 mark upon them. When he heard that the former 
 was gone with his Troop back into England^ as was 
 then given out, to take up Quarters for the whole 
 Army, who were to follow, and to fall upon Gene^ 
 
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 ral Carpenter and his fmall and wearied Troops ; he 
 faid, Let but Hunter and Douglafs with their Men, 
 quarter near General Carpenter, and in faith theyHl 
 not leave them a Horfe to mount on. His Reafon is 
 fuppofed to be, becaufe thefe, with their Men, had 
 been pretty well verfed in Horfe-ftealing, or at leaft 
 fufpeded as fuch : For an old Borderer was pleafed 
 to fay, when he was informed that a great many, if 
 not all, the loofe Fellows and fufpedted Horfe-fteal- 
 ers were gone into the Rebellion, It is an ill Wind 
 Hows no body Profit for now, continued he, / can 
 leave my Stable- door unlocked, and fleep found, fince 
 * Luck-in-a-Bag and the refi are gone. 
 
 The Fifth Troop was commanded by Captain 
 Nicholas Wogan, an Irifh Gentleman, but defcended 
 from an ancient Family of that Name in JVales ; he 
 joined the Rebels at their firft Meeting. He is a 
 Gentleman of a moft generous Mind, and a great 
 deal of Bravery, unwearied to forward the good of 
 his Caufe : His Bravery was made known by feve- 
 ral Inftances in the Aftion at Preffon: His Gene- 
 rofity, as well as Courage, was moft remarkable 
 in bringing off Prifoner Captain P reft on, of Prefton*& 
 Regiment of Foot, who was mortally wounded thro^ 
 the Body by a Bullet from the Rebels, and juft at 
 the Point of being cut in Pieces he hazarded 
 his Life among his own Men, if poffible, to fave 
 that Gentleman, though an Enemy, and was wound- 
 ed in doing it : He took alfo a great deal of Care 
 of him after he had brought him off i for which it 
 is hoped he has obtain'd His Majefty's Pardon, 
 Captain Prefton himfelf having, before he died, 
 openly acknowledg'd the Gallantry and Generofity 
 of the Adion, and made it his earneft Requeft that 
 Mr. JVogan fhould be civilly ufed, for his kind Be- 
 haviour to him. Befides thefe Troops, there were 
 a great many Gentlemen Voluntiers that were not 
 formed into any Troop. It is likewife to be obfer- 
 
 * A Nick-name to a famous Midnight Trader among Hoi fcs. Vcd j 
 
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 ved, as is noted before, that thefe Troops were all 
 Double-ofiicer'd, to oblige the feveral^Gentlemen 
 that were among them. 
 
 Having thus given an Account of their Troops and 
 Foot Regiments, which might then amount to 1400, 
 I lhall give a farther Account of their Marches, and 
 what happened in the Way, till I bring them to the 
 Place of A(5lion. Having continued in Kelfo fo long 
 as they did, which was from Saturday the 2 2d, to 
 Thurfday the 27th of Ooloher^ it gave general Carpen- 
 ter^ who, as is faid, was fent down to purfue them* 
 the Advantage of time to advance by the eafier Mar- 
 ches, and to obferve their Motions : That General, 
 with the Forces under his Command, viz. Hot ham's 
 Regiment of Foot, Cobham*s, Mole/worth's^ and Chur- 
 chill's Dragoons, had march'd from Newcajlle^ and lay 
 now at Wooller the 27th, intending to face i^^?^the 
 next Day of which Lord Kenmure, who, as I 
 faid, commanded the Troops while on the Scots- 
 Side of Twede, having Notice, called a Council 
 of War, wherein it was ferioufly confidered what 
 Courfe they fhould take. And here again my 
 Lord Wintoun, as is obferv'd already, prefs'd them 
 earneftly to march away into the Weft of Scot- 
 land-, but the oppofed, and prevailed againft 
 that wifer Opinion : Then it was propofed to pafs 
 the Tzvede, and attack the King's Troops, taking 
 the Advantage of the Weaknefs and Wearinefs of 
 General Carpenter's Men, who were indeed extre7ndy 
 fatigued, and were not above 500 Men in Number^ 
 whereof two Regiments of Dragoons zvere new raifed, 
 and had never feen any Service. This alfo was Sol- 
 dier-like Advice, and which, if they had agreed to, 
 in all Probability they might have worfted them, 
 confidering how they were fatigued, and not half 
 the Number the Rebels were. But there was 
 a Fate attended all their Councils, for they could 
 never agree to any one thing that tended to their 
 
 Advantage. 
 
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 Advantage. This Dcfign failing, they decamped from 
 Kelfo, and taking a little to the Right, marched to 
 Jedburgh. Upon this March they were all alarmed, 
 by miftaking a Party of their own Men for fome of 
 General Carpenter's, Forces : The Particulars where- 
 of were thus ; A Party of their own Men appear- 
 ing at a diftance. Captain Nicholas Wogan being de- 
 firous to know who they were, went off towards the 
 River's fide which parted them, and left me to ftand 
 at a convenient diftance from him, whilft he rid up 
 to make a Difcovery ; if they proved Enemies, he 
 was to fire a Piftol, if Friends, he was to tofs up his 
 Hat. Juft at the fame time, fome of thefe fufpefted 
 Enemies wanting to know who he was, galloping 
 towards him, he miftook them, and fired a Piftol, 
 fo the Alarm was taken ; but the Diforder was not 
 great, the Matter being foon difcovererd. Then 
 they continued their March to Jedburgh : The Horfe 
 having entred that Town, word was brought them 
 again, that General Carpenter had fallen upon the 
 Foot, who had not as yet reach'd the Town. This 
 put them into the utmoft Confternation : However, 
 not being difcouraged fo as to abandon their Fellows, 
 they all mounted their Horfes, and marched out to 
 relieve their Friends. I here had an Opportunity 
 to look into the Faces and Countenances of moft of 
 the remarkable Leaders, when they formed them- 
 felves under the Cover of a Hill. I did then be- 
 hold a great Palenefs in fome Faces, and as much 
 Fire and Refolution in others. Whether of thefe 
 Signs were then the true Tokens of Bravery, 1 
 would not then determine ; but afterwards at Prefton^ 
 when the Alarm was not falfe, I ever believed that 
 generally the fiery Eye and ftern Look were the 
 Men of beft Courage ; but we had moft of thefe 
 Men out of Danger at Prejion, and the former moft 
 adlive. This Miftake alfo was occafioned by ano- 
 ther Party of their own Men, who had taken a dif- 
 ferent 
 
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 ferentRout: And this being likewife difcovered, 
 they returned all to their Quarters, according to the 
 Scots Proverb, Worfe. frighted than hurt. They ftaid 
 in this Town till Saturday the 29th. And here it 
 being apparent that an Opportunity offering to get 
 the Start of General Carpentery who would be three 
 Days March behind, and the Englijh Gentlemen ear- 
 neftly prefling, it was refolv'd, in an ill - hour for 
 them, to crofs the Mountains, and march for Eng- 
 land: Accordingly Captain Hunter ^ who was well ac- 
 quainted with the Country, was order'd with his 
 Troops to go into North-'Tynedale, and there pro- 
 vide Quarters for them who would follow. But 
 here began a Mutiny, the Highlanders could not 
 be perfuaded to crofs the Borders ; and tho' many 
 Perfuafions were ufed with them, would not ftir a 
 foot : Hereupon the firfb Refolution was altered, 
 and Orders were fent after Captain Hunter to coun-; 
 termand him. In this Town the Magiftrates had 
 Orders to furnifh the Highlanders with a Quantity 
 of Oatmeal, which they did, by obliging every 
 Houfekeeper to pay a certain Quantity according to; 
 his Ability. They were joined in this To-wn by 
 Mr. Ainjley of Blackhilly with fome others. From 
 hence they marched to Hawick, a fmall poor Mar- 
 ket-Town belonging to the Dutchefs of Bucdughy ac 
 whole Houfe the Englijh Lords, with their Relati-* 
 ens, and Mr. Forfier, took up their Quarters. 
 Upon this March to Hawick, the Highlanders fup- 
 pofing ft ill that the March for England was refolv'd 
 on, were difgufted, feparated themfelves, and went 
 to the Top of a rifing Ground, there refted their 
 Arras, and declared that they would fight if they 
 would lead them on to the Enemy, but they would 
 not go to England ; adhering to the Lord Wintom*^% 
 Advice, that they would go through the Weft of 
 Scotland, join the Clans there, and either crofs the 
 Forth fome Miles above Stirling, or fend word to 
 
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 the Earl of Mar that they would fall upon the Duke 
 of Argyle*s Rear, whilft he fell on his Front, his 
 Number being then very fmall. Whilft this Hu- 
 mour lafted among them, they would allow none 
 to come and fpeak with them but the Earl of Win- 
 ioun^ who had tutor'd them in this Project •, aflfuring 
 them, that if they went for England, they would 
 be all cut in pieces, or taken and fold for Slaves ; 
 one part of which has proved too true. This Breach 
 held a great while •, however, at laft they were 
 brought to this, tho' not till after two Hours De- 
 bate, that they would keep together as long as they 
 ftaid in Scotland ; but upon any Motion of going 
 for England, they would return back : So they con- 
 tinued their March to Hawick, where they were fore 
 ftraitned for Quarters. Here the Highlanders, for 
 they always had the Guard, and did all the Duty 
 after they join'd the Horfe, difcovered from their 
 advanc'd Guards a Party of Horfe, who were Pa- 
 troling in their Front, took them for Enemies, and 
 gave the Alarm at Midnight fo all run immedi- 
 ately to Arms: The Moon gave light, and the 
 Night proved very clear ; fo the whole Body formed 
 themfelves in very good Order to oppofe any Attack 
 that fhould be made. But in the end this proved 
 another falfe Alarm ; fo they all returned to their 
 Quarters. I have heard that this Alarm was de- 
 figned to try the Highlanders, and to fee how they 
 would behave, and whether they would ftand chear- 
 fully to their Arms if an Enemy appeared. Mr. For- 
 fter at this Place fent for Mr. Buxton, and told him 
 he had a mind to receive the Sacrament, and or- 
 dered him to provide and attend him at his Chamber 
 next Morning before they marched, and to bring 
 Mr. Patten along with him ; fo both of them obeyed 
 and officiated. When the Service was over, he 
 faid, 'The Roman Catholicks have had the Sacrament 
 adminijlred by a Prieft ; when Opportunity ferves, 
 
 we 
 
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 fe;<? wiU have all the Protejlajtts ordered to CommU^ 
 nlcaU. Next Morning htm^ Sunday^ they madd 
 their March to Langholme^ another fmall Market- 
 Town belonging to the Dutchefs of Bucclugh t 
 From hence there was a ftrong Detachment of 
 Horfe fent in the Night for Achilfichan^ with Or- 
 ders to go and block up Dumfries, till they could 
 come up and attack it. This Town of Dumfries is 
 a very rich Place, and fituate very commodioufly 
 upon the Mouth of a navigable River on the Irifh 
 Sea, and maintains a confiderable Trade with En?-- 
 land and the Weft of Scotland j and had they been 
 fettled in their Refolutions, they might very eafily 
 have made themfelves Mafters of that Town, there 
 being no regular Forces in it, but fome Train-bands, 
 Militia, and Townfmen^ which would not have 
 been able to hold out, nor any Fortifications to have 
 alTifted them in the Defence of it. Here alfo they 
 might have furnifhed themfelves with Arms, Money, 
 and Ammunition, which were much wanted, and 
 open'd a Paffage to Glafgow, one of the beft Towns' 
 in Scotland, or for England alfo if they thouo-ht fit. 
 Here alfo they might have join'd the Highland 
 Clans from Che Weft, befides a great many Country 
 Gentlemen, who On ftich an Appearance, would 
 iiave come in to them ; fo that they might foon have 
 formed a confiderable Army : Alfo here they might 
 have receiv'd Succours from France and from Ireland^ 
 no Men of War being in all thofe Seas at that Time. 
 In a word, nothing could be a greater Token of a 
 compleat Infatuation, that Heaven confounded all 
 their Devices, and that their Deftruftion was to be 
 of their own working, than their omitting fuch 
 an Opportunity of fixing themfelves paft the Pof- 
 fibility of being attacked. They were alfo affured* 
 that in this City there were a great many Arms in 
 the Talbooth ready for all Occafions, in good Or- 
 der, and a good Quantity of Gunpowder up in the 
 
 E Tron 
 
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 Tron Steeple ; all which would have been their 
 own. That as to the Duke of Argyle, he was in 
 no Condition to have hurt them but, on the con- 
 trary, would fcarce have thought himfelf fafe in 
 Stirling^ his Troops being not above 2000 Men ; 
 for he had not then been reinforced by the Forces 
 from Ireland, nor the Dutch from England. But 
 all thefe Arguments were in vain, the Englijh Gen- 
 tlemen were pofitive for an Attempt upon their own 
 Country, pretending to have Letters from their 
 Friends in Lancafiire, inviting them thither, and 
 affuring them that there would be a general Infur- 
 redion upon their appearing; that 20000 Men 
 would immediately join them •, and promifmg them 
 Mountains which they were to perform by Mole- 
 hills. Whether they had any fuch Expreffes or no, 
 is to this Day a Queftion ; but they affirm'd it 
 to their Army, and urged the Advantages of a 
 fpeedy March into England with fuch Vehemence, 
 that they turn*d the Scale, and fent an Exprefs after 
 the Party of Horfe they had order*d to Achilfichan^ 
 for them to return and meet them at Langtoun in 
 Cumberland. So the Defign of continuing in Scot- 
 land was quitted. But the Highlanders, whether dealt 
 with underhand by the Earl of Wmtoun, or whether 
 being convinced of the Advantages they were going to 
 throw away, and the Uncertainties they were bring- 
 ing upon themfelves, halted a fecond time, and would 
 march no farther. It is true, they did again prevail 
 with their Leaders to march, making great Promifes, 
 and giving Money to the Men : But many of the 
 Men were ftiil pofitive, and that to fuch an Ex- 
 tremity, that they feparated, and about 500 of them 
 went off in Bodies, chufing rather, as they faid, to 
 furrcnder themfelves Prifoners, than to go forward 
 to certain Deftrudion. All imaginable Means were 
 ufed to have prevented this Defertion, but nothing 
 could prevail on thefe Men to alter their Refo- 
 
 lutions. 
 
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 lutlonSi neither fair Prom ifes, nor any Arguments; 
 fo tliey went their ways in Parties over the Tops 
 of the Mountains the Earl of Wintoun went off 
 likewife with good part of his Troop, being very 
 much diflatisfy'd at the Meafures, and declaring 
 that they were talcing the way to ruin themfelves : 
 However, in little time he returned and join'd the 
 Body, tho' not at all fatisfied with their Proceed- 
 ings ; and afterwards was never called to any Coun- 
 cil of War, which incenfed him mightily againft 
 the reft of the. Lords and commanding Officers. 
 Arid in fhort, he was flighted, having often no 
 Quarters provided for him, and at other times very 
 bad ones, not fit for a Nobleman of his Family ; yeu 
 being in for it, he refolved to go forwards, and di- 
 verted himfelf with any Company, telling many 
 pleafant Stories of his Travels, and his living un»- 
 known and obfcurely with a Blackfmith in France^ 
 whom he ferved fome Years as a Bellows-blower 
 and Under-Servant, till he was acquainted with the 
 Death of his Father, and that his Tutor had given 
 it out that he was dead : Upon which he refolved to 
 return home ; and when there met with a cold Re- 
 ception. He was very curious in working in fe- 
 veral Handicraft Matters, and had made good Pro- 
 ficiency in them, witnefs the nice way he had found 
 to cut afunder one of the Iron Bars in his Window 
 in the Tower, by fome fmall Inftrument fcarce per- 
 ceivable. They left the fmall Pieces of Cannon 
 which they had brought from Kelfo at Langholm, 
 having nailed them up and made them unfit for Ser- 
 vice then they marched for that Night to Long- 
 toun, which is within feven Miles of Carlijle, and 
 was a very long and fatiguing March. Here they 
 had Intelligence that Brigadier Sianwix, with a Party 
 of Horfe from CarliJIe, had been there that Day to 
 get Intelligence of their Numbers and Motions ; 
 but that upon notice of their coming towards him, 
 
 E z "he 
 
[ S8 3 
 
 he had retired to his Garifon, which then confifted 
 of but a very few Men, having made Mr. Graham 
 of Inchhrachy a Prifoner. This Night the Party 
 ordered to Achilfichan, returned and join'd us, fore 
 fatigued with their long and difmal March. Next 
 Day they entred England, and marched to Bramp- 
 ton a fmall Market-Town, and the fecond they 
 came to on the EngUJh fide, belonging to the Earl 
 •of Carlijle. Here nothing happened but proclaiming 
 the Pretender, and taking up the Publick Money, 
 wz. the Excife upon Malt and Ale. Here Mr. 
 Forfter opened his Commiffion to ad as General in 
 England, which had been brought him from the 
 Earl of Mar by Mr. Douglafs aforenam'd : And 
 from this Day the Highlanders had Sixpence a 
 Head per Day paid them to keep them in good 
 Order and under Command. Here alfo Mr. Forfter 
 and Lord Kenmure had the following Letters fent 
 them from the Earl of Mar, dated at Perth, OEio- 
 her 21. The Duplicates of thefe Letters were it 
 feems intercepted, being thofe which came by Land, 
 and were made publick by the Government but 
 thefe being brought by Sea, and landed near Blith, 
 came fafe to their Hands. ' ■ 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 « Y Long extremely to hear from you, you may 
 « £ be fure, fince I have not had the lead Ac- 
 « counts almoft of your Motions fince I fent the 
 
 * Detachment over. I hope all is pretty right 
 « again, but it was an unlucky Miftake in Briga- 
 
 * dier Metojh, in marching from Haddingtoun to 
 < Leith. I cannot but fay though, that it was odd 
 <■ your Lordlhip fent no Orders or Intelligence to 
 
 * him, when they had Reafon to exped that Party's 
 ^ coming over every Day. His Retreat he made 
 
 * from Leith, and now from Seaton, with the help 
 « of the Movement I made from this, makes fome 
 
 ' Amends 
 
[59] 
 
 * Amends for that Miftake ; and I hope that Party 
 ' of Men with him will be of great Ufe to you, 
 ' and the Caufe. I wflh you may find a Way of 
 ' fending the inclofed to Mr. Forrejier, which I 
 ' leave open for your Lordfliip to read ; and I 
 ' have little further to fay to you, than what you 
 
 * will ftnd in it. I know fo little of the Situatioa 
 ' of your Affairs, that I muft leave to yourfelC 
 ' what is fit for you to do, as will moft conduce 
 ' to the Service, and I know you will take good 
 ' Advice. 
 
 ' My humble Service to all Friends with you, 
 
 * particularly Brigadier Melq/h, Lord Nairn, Lord 
 *^ Charles Murray and Metojh, who, I hope, are 
 
 * joined you long e're now ; and indeed they all 
 
 * deferve Praife for their gallant Behaviour. I muft 
 ' not forget Kinachn^ who, I hear, fpoke fo refo- 
 ' lutely to the Duke of Argyle from the Citadel ; 
 ' and I hope Inercall, and all my Men with him, 
 ' are well ; and their Countrymen long to be at 
 ' them, which I hope they and we all fhall foon. 
 ' I have fent another Copy of the inclofed to Mr. 
 ' Forrefier by Sea, fo it will be hard if none of 
 ' them come to his Hands. 
 
 ' I know your Lordfhip will endeavour to let 
 me hear from you as foon as poffible, which I 
 long impatiently for^ and I hope you will find a 
 Way of fending it fafe. In one of my former, 
 either to your Lordfhip, or to fome body to Ihjevy 
 you, I told that a part of the Army would be 
 about. Dumhartoun but now 1 beg you would 
 not rely upon that, for, till I hear from General 
 Gordon, I am uncertain if they hold that Way, 
 I have fent your Lordfhjp a Copy of my Com, 
 mifTion, which perhaps you have not feen befpre. 
 I have named the General Officers, ai^d your 
 Lordfjiip has the Rank of Brigadier of the 
 Horfe. 
 
 E 3 , * I am 
 
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 * i am told the Earl of Wintoun has been very ufe- 
 ful to our Men we fent over. I fuppofehe is now 
 with your Lordlhip, and I beg you may make 
 my Compliment to his Lordfhip, and I hope the 
 King will foon thank him himfelf. 
 « 1 will trouble your Lordftiip no farther now, 
 but all Succefs attend you, and may we foon have 
 a merry Meeting. I am, with all Refpeft, 
 
 My Lordy 
 
 Tour mofl obedient and 
 
 moft humble Servant, 
 
 MAR, 
 
 From the Camp at Perlh 
 OMer 21. lyiS' 
 
 From the Camp 5/ Perth, 0<5b. 21. 171 5. 
 
 « f Wrote to you of the 17th from Auchterarder, 
 < 1 which 1 hope you got. I marched the fame 
 
 * Night the Horfe to Dumblain, within four Miles 
 « of Stirling, and the Foot fome Miles fliort of that 
 « Place Next Morning I had certain Intelligence 
 
 * of the Duke of Argyle's returning from Edinburgh 
 « with moft of the Troops he had carried there, 
 
 * and was on their March towards Stirling : I alio 
 
 * had an Account of Evans's Regiment landed in 
 « the Weft of Scotland from Ireland, and were on 
 « their Way to Stirling. I had come away from 
 « Perth before our Provifions were ready to go 
 
 * with us, and I found all the Country about Stir- 
 « ling, where we were to pafs Forth, was intirely 
 « exhaufted by the Enemy, fo there was nothing 
 
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 * for us to fubfift on there. I had no Account frorn 
 ' General Gordon, as I expeded ; and the fooneft I 
 ' could exped him at the Heads of Forth, was two 
 ' Days after that, and I could not think of pafling 
 « Forth till I was join'd by him. Under thefe Dif- 
 ' faculties, and having got one of the Things I de- 
 « figned by my March, the Buke of Argyle*j witb- 
 ' drawing from our Friends in Lothian, I thought it 
 
 * fit to march back to Auchterarder, which was a 
 ' better Quarter, tho* not a good one neither. Next 
 
 * Morning I got Intelligence of the Duke of Ar- 
 ' gyle's being come to Stirling the Night before, and 
 
 * that he had fent Exprefs upon Exprefs to Evans' i 
 ' Dragoons to haften up. I had a Letter alfo, that 
 ' Morning from General Gordon, telling me that 
 ' fome Things had kept him up longer than he ex- 
 
 * pedted ; that it would be that Day e'er he could 
 
 * be at Inverary and that he could not pofTibly 
 ' join me this Week : Upon this I thought it better 
 ' to return here, which is a good Quarter, and 
 
 * wait his coming up, and the Lord Seaforth's^ 
 ' than continue at Auchterarder, fince it would not 
 ' a bit retard my paffing the Forth when I fliould 
 ' be in a Condition to do it \ and in the mean 
 
 * time I could be getting Provifions ready to carry 
 
 * along with me in mv March, which, as I have 
 ' told, are abfolutely necefTary about the Heads of 
 
 * Forth : So I came Home laft Night. 
 
 ' I very much regret my being oblig'd to this, 
 
 * for many Reafons, particularly becaufe of its keep- 
 
 * ing me fo much the longer from joining you ; 
 but you eafily fee it was not in my Power to help 
 
 ' it. However, I hope my Stay here will be very 
 ^ fhort, and you may depend upon its being no longer 
 
 * than it necefTarily muft. The PafTage over the Forth 
 ^ is now fo extremely difficult that it*s fcarce pof- 
 
 fible to fend any Letters that Way ; and within 
 ^ thefe two Days there were two Boats coming 
 
 E 4 ' over 
 
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 * over -with Letters to me, that were fo hard pur-» 
 
 * fued, that they were obhged p thrqw the Letters 
 
 * into the Sea ; lb that I know very little of our 
 ' Friends on that fide, and lefs of you, which is 
 ' no fmall Lofs to me. I heard to Day, by word 
 
 * of Mouth, that the Detachment I fent over are 
 ' marched and joined our Friends in the South of 
 ' Scotland, fo I hope they may be yet ufeful, but 
 ' I hope you know more of them than I do. I 
 
 * have now writ to Lord Kenmure, but it is ten to 
 ' one if it comes to his Hands. I know not what 
 ' he is doing, where he is, or what Way he in- 
 
 * tends to difpofe of his People ; whether he is to 
 ' march into England, or towards Stirling, to wait 
 ' my paiTmg Forth ; and in the Ignorance I am in 
 
 * of your Affairs befouth the River, I fcarce know 
 
 * what to advife him. If you be in need of his 
 ' Affiftance in England, I doubt not but you have 
 ' called him there i but if not, certainly his being 
 ' in the Rear of the Enemy, when I pafs Forthy 
 
 * or now that the Duke of Jrgyle is reinforced, 
 ' Ihould he march towards me before \ am, it would 
 
 * be of great Service. 1 am forced in a great mea- 
 ' fure to leave it to himfelf, to do as he finds moil 
 
 * expedient. 
 
 I am afraid the Duke of Ornmd is not as yoc 
 
 * come to England, eife I Ihould have had the Cer- 
 
 * tainty of it, one way or other, before now. ^ I 
 
 * cannot conceive what detains him nor \\\t King 
 ' from coming here howeyer, I am fure it is none 
 ' of their Fault, and I hope they will both furprize 
 
 * us agreeably very foon. 
 
 ' I believe I told you in my laft, of the Lord 
 
 * Slrathmore and 200 of the Detachment that were 
 
 * going over Forth, and drove into the Ifland 
 ' of May by three Men of War, who being got 
 
 * fafe afliore on this Side, are now joined us again. 
 
 * There were but two of all the Boats ^aken ; and 
 
 'I hear^ 
 
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 ^ I hear, fome of the Men that were in them, who 
 ? were made Prifoners in Leithy were reUevM by 
 ' our Men, when they came there, but that their 
 
 * Officers were fent to Edinburgh Caftle ; fq I 
 « want fome Reprifals fpr them, which I hope to 
 ' have e'er long. . 
 
 ' Tho' Metqj^ brigadier's Miftake in going to 
 ^ Leitb was like to be unlucky to us and them, yet 
 ' it has given the Duke of 4rgyle no little Trouble ; 
 ^ and our March obliging him to let them flip, has, 
 « I am apt to believe, vex'd him- 
 
 ' I beg you will find fome Way to let me hear 
 « from you. Ever fmce my Detachments were in 
 « Fyfey all the Men of War that cruifed on the 
 « North Coaft, betwixt Peterhead and the Firth, 
 « have been in the Firth, and, 1 believe, will con- 
 « tinue there, to prevent my fending more over that 
 f Way : So all that Coaft is clear, which I wifh to 
 
 * God the King knew j and you may eafily fend a 
 « Boat here any-where, with Letters from England, 
 « I hear there is one of the Regiments of Foot from 
 
 * Ireland come to Stirling, 
 
 ' When you write to me, if by Sea, pray fend 
 « me fome News-Papers, that \ may know what 
 « the World is doing, for we know little of it here 
 ^ thefe eight Days. Succefs attend you ; and I am, 
 f with all Truth ^nd Efteem, 
 
 : Tour mofi obedient 
 
 humble Servant, 
 
 MAR. 
 
 Dircifted thus^ 
 To Mr. Forrefter with the King's Forces m 
 ^orthumberlard. 
 
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 They halted one Night at Brampon, to refrefli 
 the Men after their hard Marches, having march'd 
 above 100 Miles in five Days. The. next Day 
 they advanced towards Penrith : They expeded to 
 have met with fome Friends here to join them ; for 
 it was reported that Mr. Dacre of Abbeylanner-Coafi^ 
 a Papift, had promifed to raife 40 Men ; but he 
 was taken with a fortunate Fever, which hindred 
 him of his Defign, and prevented him and his Fa- 
 mily from Ruin : He died fince j his Name, which 
 was very ancient, is now extind in that Eftate. As 
 they drew near Penrith^ they had notice that the 
 Sheriff, with the PoJJe Comitatus^ were got together, 
 with the Lord Lonfdaky and the Bifhop of Carlijlcy 
 to the Number of 14,000 Men, who refolv'd to 
 ftand and oppofe their penetrating farther into Eng- 
 land. The firil part of this was very true, viz. 
 That the Pojfe was drawn together, nor was their 
 Number much lefs. But they gave the Rebel Army 
 no occafion to try, whether they would ftand or no ; 
 for as foon as a Party, who they fent but for Difco- 
 very, had feen fome of our Men coming out of a 
 Lane by the Side of a Wood, and draw up upon a 
 Common or Moor in Order, and then advance, 
 and that they had carried an Account of this to their 
 main Body, they broke up their Camp in the ut- 
 moft Confufion, ihifting every one for themfelve^ 
 as., well as tihey could, as is generally the Cafe of 
 an arm*d, but undifciplin'd Multitude. 
 
 The Lord Lonfdale., whofe predecefTors have been 
 famous for their Loyalty as well as Antiquity, had 
 had flill confiderable Interefl in that Country. 
 This Nobleman, tho' young, has very valuable and 
 endearing Accomplifhments, and no fmall fhare of 
 Courage ; tho' fome were pleafed to refled upon 
 him for his Retreat from Penrith ; but thofe that 
 ■know how .naked and unprepar'd that Multitude 
 were of all warlike Arms and Stares, juilly com- 
 mend 
 
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 mend his wife Condua, to retreat and prevent the 
 EfFufion of fo much Blood and innocent Lives^ 
 which would have been of bad Confequence, and 
 no Service to his Mafter's Intereft, which, 1 am af- 
 fured of, he prefers before his own Lite, or the Pre-^, 
 fervation thereof. He retired no farther than Applely 
 Caftle that Night, but 10 Miles from the Rebels 
 Quarters, and lefs from a Detachment advanced to 
 im own Houfe fo if Fear or Cowardice had pof- 
 fefs'd him, as one of Appleby hinted to the Rebel 
 Lords and Forjler, he might have, with a good 
 Retinue well mounted, with eafe gone over Stone- 
 jnore into Torkfiire : But the brighteft Charaders 
 are not befpattered or fullied with the faufty Breath 
 of Malice. 
 
 Altho' their coming together was very little to 
 the Purpofe, yet, as the Rebels were greatly animated 
 by their fudden and diforderly feparating over the 
 whole Country, the Horfe who were very near 
 them, made fome Booty among them, takmg feve* 
 ral Horfes, and a great many Arms, The whole 
 Body of the Rebels being now come up, made a 
 Halt upon the Moor near the Town, and drew up 
 in Order of Battle, that they might enter the Town 
 in a good Figure. Here Mr. Patten, being ac- 
 quainted with the Country, and having formerly 
 Seen Curate of that Town, was ordered out with a 
 Party of Horfe to intercept the Bifhop of Carlifle, 
 of whom, it feems, they had fome Intelligence, 
 This Lord is known to be not only a compleat 
 Scholar in all manner of -Learning, but likewife a 
 Man of Courage and brave Soul. I believe, if 
 there had happened any Conteft betwixt the two Par- 
 ties, he would have been willing to have taken a 
 Share in the hotteft Part of the Difpute. He v^ras 
 returning to his Seat of Rofe-Cafile when Mr. Pat- 
 ■ten was fent after him. But Mr. Forfter, upon o^ 
 ther Information, fent an Exprefs after him, and 
 
 counter? 
 
[ 66 ] 
 
 Countermanded that Order, and direded him to 
 march forwards quite through the Town of Pefirilb 
 to Emont- Bridge ; and there he had Orders to befet 
 a Houfe where he was told he Ihould find his Bro- 
 therrin-Law, Mr. Johnfion, Colleftor of the Salt- 
 Tax, whom he was ordered to malce Prifoner, and 
 to bring him, with his Books, Papers, and what 
 Money he had belonging to the Government, to the 
 Aripy : But Mr. Johnfton gave them the flip, and 
 had made his Efcape before Mr. Fatten came up 
 with his Party. However, Mr. Patten, upon this 
 little Expedition, took feveral of the Pojfe Comita- 
 tus above-named Prifoners, and committed them to 
 the Guard, taking their Arms from them. Of all 
 this Number of People, which, as is faid, were got 
 together upon the Moor by Penrith, there were none 
 received any hurt, but one Man that was fhot through 
 the Arm ; for Orders were given not to fire upon 
 them, unlefs they refilled, which they were wifer 
 than to do. In this Town, which is the richeft and 
 moft plentiful of that part of the Country, they 
 refrelhed themfelves very comfortably ; tho' the In- 
 habitants cannot charge them with any Rudenefs, 
 Violence, or Plunder in the leaft. The Pretender 
 was proclaimed, and the Excife and other pubiick 
 Money was taken up, as had been the Ufage all 
 along, and all the Arms they could get were feiz'd. 
 Tho' this Town is very Loyal, yet ftill there were 
 fbme that informed where they might be furnilhed, 
 inafmuch, that they were acquained where Mr. John 
 Pattefon, an Attorney, had hid fome Arms of his 
 own, and others belonging to Sir Chriftopher Mufr 
 grave Edenhall. The chief People of this Town, 
 with Mr. Whelpdale, one of his Majefty's Juftices 
 of the Peace, agreed, when they heard of the Re- 
 bels Advance, wifely to confult their own Intereft 
 and Safety, by fliewing all manner of Civility to 
 their Enemies 5 Prudence and Neceffity obliging 
 
 then> 
 
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 them to ad that Part, which Force conftrain'd them 
 unwillingly to comply with. In this Town there is 
 a Prejbyterian Meeting- Houfe, which fome defired 
 Leave or Encouragement from Mr. Forfter to pull 
 down, or burn : But he would not condefcend there- 
 to, adding, 'That he was to gain hy Clemency, and not 
 hy Cruelty. There was one Ofmgton, formerly an 
 Excife-man, that performed both thefe Offices 
 whilft in England ; and what Money he receiv'd, 
 he paid to Mr. JVilliam Tunftally who was confti- 
 tuted their Pay-Mafter General. While they con- 
 tinued here, they began to look into the Country a 
 little, as well for their Friends, as to furnifh them- 
 felves with Arms and Horfes for of the latter they 
 were in great Want : And firft, there was a Party 
 fent to Lowther-Halk the Seat of the Vifcount Lonf- 
 dale, three Miles diftant from Penrith in the County 
 of fVeftmoreland, to fee for his Lordfhip, if he could 
 have been found, and to fearch for Arms, but they 
 found neither. They ftay'd all Night at the Houfe, 
 where, to do them Juftice, they behav'd very civilly, 
 though it was otherwife reported particularly, I 
 have heard it was complained of, that the Rebels 
 were rude, in defacing fome Statues, and fpoiling the 
 Gardens and Trees but nothing is more falfe, for 
 they were commanded by Colonel Oxhurgh 2cn old 
 Soldier, and a Man whofe generous Temper would 
 not allow him to do any thing fo bafe. Having ftay*d 
 at Penrith that Night, and, as is faid, refrefliM them- 
 felves very well, the next Day they march'd for Apple- 
 by. It is to be obferv'd, that there were none of any 
 account had yet join'd them on this March ; for all the 
 Papifts on that Side the Country were fecur'd before- 
 hand in the Caftlc of Carlifle, viz. Mr. Howard of 
 Corbee-CiLiik, a Papift, Mr. Warwick of Warwick* 
 Hall, a Papift, converted to that Church fome 
 Years ago, and lately made Steward to a Lord in 
 t\iQ North i which occafioned a merry Rogue to fay, 
 
 when 
 
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 when he ikw this Gentleman proclaiming a Fair 
 the Head of the Tenants, that it was a monflruous 
 Sight, to fee a Popifh Head upon an Engli/h Body 5 
 ^nd James Grahamoi Inchhracky^2L Gentleman o'i Scot- 
 land^ who had fled his Country for killing the Lord 
 Rollo\ Brother. He was a Relation to* the Lord 
 I^airn and therefore there was a Propofal fent to 
 Brigadier StaJtzvix, Deputy- Governor of Carlijle, a. 
 very good Soldier, to acquaint him, That if 'he 
 would difcharge this Gentleman out of the Caftle, 
 that then Mr. fVyhurgh, one of the Militia Officers 
 taken by the Rebels, (hould be fet at Liberty j but 
 the Brigadier returned an Anfwer, That he would 
 hear no Terms from Rebels, ^c. Befides thefe, 
 there was Henry Curwen^ Efq; of Workington^ a 
 Gendeman of a plentiful Eftate in that Country, i^c. 
 fecured himfelf likewife in the Caftle of Carlijle. 
 Now, inftead of increafing, the Rebels Number 
 decreafed ; for Mr. Jynjly who joined them at Jed- 
 burgb, not liking the ProfpedT: of their Affairs, nor 
 their Management, deferted them, and feveral with 
 him. Here Mr. Patten was in great Danger of be- 
 ing taken by the Sheriff of the County ; and had he 
 ftay'd a quarter of an Hour longer than he did, he 
 had certainly fallen into their Hands •, for being en- 
 gaged with fome Acquaintance who ftopt him fome 
 time after his Rebel Friends were march*d, the She- 
 riff, who had got notice of him, fpar'd no Diligence 
 to have taken him, but came a little too late. On 
 the March to Jpplehy, the Highlanders, who are 
 exceeding good Markfmen, fliot feveral Rabbets, 
 and two or three Deer in fFhinfeld-P^vk, very well 
 ftock'd with both, belonging to the Earl of Tbanet, 
 Mr. John Hall, who was not much refpefted by the 
 Chief of the Rebels, ftay'd behind them at Mr. HaWs 
 of Temple-Sowerhy, which gave fufpicion to fome to 
 believe that he was gone off. Whatever were his 
 Jleafons for this, and the like, next Night, whilft 
 
 at 
 
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 at Applehy^ none knows *, for he went ofF fome Miles 
 to a Clergyman's Houfe in the Commiffion for the 
 Peace, who might have fecur'd him, fo that the 
 Rebels would not have known thereof; Yet as all 
 his Plea at his Trial was, *' That he was willing to 
 " make his Efcape, but was fo narrowly look'd to, 
 *' that he never could get an Opportunity," may be 
 a Handing Evidence, that he valu'd not what he laid. 
 A Ihort Abftrad of his Life lhall be added among 
 the Lift of the reft of the Gendemen at the End 
 cf the Firfl Part. 
 
 Being come to Appleby the 3d of November, they 
 halted again, and ftay'd there till the 5th. This is 
 an ancient Corporation, and the head Town of the 
 County of Weflmor eland : The Affizes are held here. 
 It was formerly a famous Roman Station. Here, 
 during their Stay, nothing, material happen'd. but as 
 ufual. Proclaiming the Pretender, and taking, up 
 the Publick Money. Here taking pofieflion of the 
 Church, Mr. Patten had Orders" to read Prayers, 
 if the Parfon or Curate refufed but they were not 
 very backward , as to the thing itfelf, though they 
 thought it their fafeft way modeftly to excule them- 
 Xelves, teftifying, however, their Satisfaction, in 
 giving Orders for the Bells to ring, and having ^11 
 things made ready for the Service ; nor did the Par- 
 fon and his Curate fcruple to grace the Afl^mbly 
 with their Prefence, or to join in the Prayers for 
 the Pretender ; which encourag'd the Flighjanders to 
 believe the Hjgh-church Party were entirely theirs, 
 and would join in a little time. Whilft here, they 
 made Mr. khovias Wyburgh, a Captain of the Train- 
 Bands, a Prifoner, and earry'd him, Mr. Senhoufe^ 
 and fome others fufpefted as Spies, to Prefton, an4 
 •there they condnued as fuch till his Majefty's Forces 
 fet them at Liberty. They kept Mr. Baines fome 
 time a Prifoner in the Mute-Hall, being informed 
 againft by fome in the Town,, for ksowing where 
 
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 the £xcife-Money was lodg*d, and obnoxious to 
 the Malice of the Tory Party, as Bailiff to the Earl 
 of PFharton : He was afterwards difcharg'd. Whilft 
 at this Place, they riiight have made themfelveS 
 Mafters of two Companies df Invalids then uporJ 
 their Rout to Carlijle, and were fore fatigued with 
 a long March in that Seafon of the Year, whofe 
 Arms would have been of fingular Ufe to the Re- 
 bels ; though thefe Chelfe a- Collegians were old and 
 well difciplin'd, and refolv'd to make a vigorous 
 Defence, if aflaulted, by forming themfelves into a 
 hollow Square, under the Condud of undaunted 
 Officers, whom they aflured they would live and die 
 by. They were within three Miles of the whole 
 Rebel Army, the latter knowing nothing of them, 
 whofe Horfe and fuperior Numbers would certainly 
 have over-power'd them. 
 
 On the 5th they fet out for Kendal a Town of 
 very good Trade. Here they remain*d all Night % 
 and the next Morning, being Sunday the 6th, they 
 fet forward for Kirby Ion/dale a fmall Market- town in 
 Westmoreland. This Day's March was fhort, fo 
 they came early to their Quarters, and had time to 
 proclaim the Pretender^ and in the Afternoon to go 
 to Church, where Mr. Patten read Prayers, the 
 Parfon of the Place abfconding. There was one 
 Mr. Guin, who went into the Churches in their 
 Way, and fcratched out His Majefty King Georg e's 
 Name, and placed the Pretender's fo nicely, that it 
 refembled Print very much, and the Alteration could 
 icarce be perceiv'd. In all the March to this Town, 
 which is the laft in Wef}?nor eland, there were none 
 joined them but one Mr. John Dalflon, and another 
 Gentleman from Richmond, though we had now 
 march*d through two very populons Counties ; but 
 here Friends began to appear, for fome Lancajhire 
 Papifts with their Servants came and join'd them. 
 Next Day, being the 7th of Novemher, they march*d 
 
 to 
 
C 7« ] 
 
 to Latica^er, a Town of very good Trade, very 
 pleafandy feated, and which, had they thought fit 
 to have held it, might eafily have been made ftrong 
 enough to have made a Stand for them •, and having 
 an old Caftle for their Arms, Scores, and Provifions, 
 and a Sea Port to have received Succours, it might 
 have been very ufcful to them j but our Infatuations 
 were not yet over. 
 
 In the March from Kendal to Lancafter, the whole 
 Army drew up upon a Hill, and lay fome time up- 
 on their Arms , to reft the Men. During which 
 time, Mr. Charles Widdringtm^ fecond Brother to 
 the Lord Widdrington, came from Lancajhire, whi- 
 ther he was fent fome Days before the Rebels ad- 
 varic'd, to acquaint the Gentlemen of that County 
 with their marching that way ; he return'd with the 
 News of their Chearfulnefs, and Intention to join 
 them with all their Intereft, and that the Pretender 
 was that Day proclairh*d at Manchefter^ where the 
 Town*s-People had got Arms to furnifh a Troop 
 of Fifty Men at their fole Charge, befides other 
 Voluntiers. This rouzed the Spirits of the High- 
 landers, and animated them exceedingly; nor was 
 it more than needed, for they had often complain'd 
 before , that all the Pretences of Numbers to join 
 were come to little , and that they fhould foon be 
 furrounded by numerous Forces. But on this News 
 they pluck'd up their Hearts, gave three Huzza's, 
 and then continu'd their March into I^ancafter, Co- 
 lonel Charlresy and another Officer who was then 
 in the Town would have blown up the Bridge 
 which leads into the Place^ to hinder us from en- 
 tring ; but the People of the Town Ihewing their 
 Unwillingnefs, and efpecially becaufe, as they faid, 
 it would no wife hinder our Entrance into the Place, 
 feeing the River at Low- water was paffable by Foot 
 or Horfe, and that we could eafily find Boats to 
 pafs into the Town 5 and that as it would be a vaft 
 
 F Charge 
 
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 Charge to rebuild the Bridge fo ftrong and fine as 
 before, fo it would be a Lofs to no manner of End. 
 Then thefe two Gentlemen finding a Quantity of 
 Powder in fome Merchants Hands, order'd it to be 
 thrown into a Draw-well in the Market-place,- left 
 it (hould fall into our Hands. 
 
 In this Town Sir Henry Haughton^ Member of 
 Parliament for Prejion, a Gentleman of known good 
 Intentions and fteddy Loyalty to the Proteftant 
 Succefiion, ufed his beft Endeavours to have all 
 Things put out of the way that might be ferviceable 
 to the Rebels. In the River which runs by Lanca- 
 fter there lay a Ship of about 500 Tons, belonging 
 to Mr. Hi/ham of London, and Mr. Law/on an emi- 
 nent Quaker in Town, on board of which there 
 were fix Pieces of Cannon, fome Blunderbufles, and 
 finall Arms: Sir /^^/^rjy thought it convenient that 
 thefe Arms fhould be brought from the Ship, and 
 made ufe of for his Majefty's Service (having then 
 a Refolution to defend the Bridge ;) to this End he 
 fent for Law/on, and requefted that the Cannon 
 might be brought, from the Ship, then five Miles 
 diftant from the Town, to be ufed as aforefaid ; 
 which he pofitively refufed : But being ftill prefled 
 to grant that Demand, he at laft came to this Re- 
 folution, That he would by no means part with the 
 Cannon, unlefs Sir Henry Haughton would give him 
 a Bond of 10000 Pounds to infure the Ship againft 
 any Damages fhe might fuftain from the Rebels, 
 who, he faid, would not forbear to burn the Ship 
 and Cargo, upon the leaft Notice that he had part- 
 ed with the Cannon to oppofe them. But it is more 
 probable that the Ship would have been rifled or 
 deftroy*d if Sir Henry had given his Bond, he being 
 very obnoxious to the Rage of the Rebels for his 
 Vigilance and Care. Upon this Refufal, Sir Henry 
 defired that the 'Mayor, Aldermen, and Common- 
 Council 
 
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 Council might meet in the Afternoon, to confulc. 
 about this important Affair which they did accord- 
 ingly. Being met, it was then propofed by Sir Henry 
 Hanghton^ Charles Rigby'Eiq; and Francis Chartres 
 Efq; who were alfo zealous for his Majefty's Intereft, 
 that the Cannon on board the Veffel then in the 
 River fhould be deliver'd for his Majefty*s Service : 
 Which was refufed. But thefe three Gentlemen be- 
 ing in the Commiffion for the Peace, produced a 
 Warrant ready drawn up for feizing the Cargo and 
 Arms on board the VelTel above-mention'd. Laivfon 
 finding this to prefs hard, acquiefced. At this time 
 there were fome Dragoons ih Prefton , who were 
 advifed to advance to Lancajler-, but having no 
 Orders for that March, continued there till they 
 were order'd to Wigan. Upon this, Sir Henry Haugh- 
 ton having Intelligence that the Rebels were within 
 1 6 Miles of him, he went from Lancajler with 600 
 Militia , and with them retired to Prefion. Before 
 he left Lancajler^ finding that the Cannon already 
 mention'd could be of no Ufe to him, having not a 
 fufficient Number of Men to cover that Town, he 
 order'd Mr. Law/on to fall down the River with his 
 Veffel , out of the reach of the Rebels , fo that his 
 Cannon might not fall into their Hands. Which 
 Mr. Law/on did not obey ; for the Rebels having 
 enter'd Prejion, they had Intelligence, by a Gentle- 
 man of no mean Figure, of the Cannon, and of all 
 that paffed in the Town. 
 
 After all this, as faid, we enter'd the Town with- 
 out Oppofition in very good Order, and march'd to 
 the Market-place, where the whole Body was drawn 
 up round the Crofs, and there with Sound of Trum- 
 pet proclaimed the Pretender : Then the Men were 
 billeted and quarter'd in every Part of the Town, 
 which was very well able to entertain them all. The 
 fame Night a Party of Horfe were fent to Colonel 
 Chartres'^ Houfe, which is a few Miles from Lan- 
 
 F 2 cajier. 
 
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 cdfief^ belonging to a fine Eftate which h& has late- 
 ly purchafed there, called Hornby-Hall^ this Party 
 were detached thither before we entered Lancajler, 
 by another Way, under the Command of Colonel 
 Oxburgh : They did no Harm to the Houfe , nor 
 to any thing about it, tho* it was reported, and that 
 prefently by himfelf, to ingratiate himfelf with the 
 Government, that they committed feveral Diforders, 
 to the Owner's great Lofs. But he could never 
 make out the Lofs ; nor was there any Truth in 
 the Charge, for they behaved very civilly, only 
 made free with a few Bottles of his Wine and ftrong 
 Beer. When this Colonel demanded of one that had 
 the Care of the Houfe, how much he did infill upon 
 for what the Men and Horfes had received, he 
 brought in a Bill of 3 /. 6 s, S d. for which the Co- 
 lonel gave his Note, payable when his Mailer's 
 Concerns were fettled. On the other hand, if thefe 
 Men had not been fent thither, but that the Scots 
 had been allow'd to pay their Countryman's Houfe 
 a Vifit , they would not have fcrupled to have fet 
 it on fire, fo well is he refpeded by them and that 
 not on account of his Affeflion or Difaff*e6lion to 
 one Side or other, but on account of his own per- 
 fonal Chara6ber, which is known not to have been 
 very acceptable to thofe who are acquainted with 
 him. They continued at Lancajler from Monday the 
 7th to JVednefday the 9th, during which time they 
 feized fome new Arms which were in the Cuftom- 
 Houfe, and fome Claret, and a good Quantity of 
 Brandy, which was all given to the Highlanders 
 to oblige them : They like wife took up all the Mo- 
 ney belonging to the Revenue, which was either in 
 the Excife-Office or Cuftom- Houfe, fix Pieces of 
 Cannon, which they feized, and mounted upon new 
 Carriages (the Wheels that mounted thefe Cannon 
 belong'd to Sir Henry Haughton*% Coaches) and car- 
 ried them to Prefion ; of which hereafter. During 
 their Stay at Lancafter they had Prayers read in this 
 
 Church 
 
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 Church by Mr. Fatten^ the Parfon of the Place eXr 
 ciifing himlelf. It feems he was not fo averfe to it, 
 any more than fome of his Brethren ; but he wanted 
 to fee how the Scales would turn before he could 
 think of venturing fo far. From this Town Mr. 
 Buxion 2l Clergyman was fent off with Letters to 
 fome Gentlemen in Berhyjhire^ where his Acquaint- 
 ance lay. It was a lucky Errand for him, for by 
 that means he had the good fortune to efcape being 
 taken at Prejlon. He was a well bred and good 
 humour'd Gentleman, but his Conftitution could 
 not bear the Hardfliips of fuch an Undertaking 
 as this, efpecially of the long Marches in that 
 Seafon of the Year. He went to his own Country, 
 and there fell ill of the Small-Pox ; but hearing that 
 narrrow Search was made for him, he was obliged 
 to remove, even in that Condition, and has not 
 fince been heard of. 
 
 As the old Saying goes, Uno avulfo non deficit 
 alter : So it was here i for that very Day Mr. 
 Buxton went from Lancajler^ the unhappy Mr. Paul 
 came thither. 
 
 Life and CharaBer of Mr. Paul 
 
 William Paul Clerk, who liv'd and dy*d a Bat- 
 chelor was the Son of John Paul, of Little Ajhby 
 near Lutterworth in the County of Leicejier, lately 
 deceas'd his Mother was Daughter of Mr. Barfoot 
 of Streetfields in JVat-wickJhire : They had a Free- 
 hold Eftate of about 6p or 70 /. per Annum, liy*d 
 in good Repute, and had five Children, of which 
 William was Eldeft, and born at AJhhy aforefaid, 
 about the Year 1678 ; brought up at School, the 
 greateft part of his time, by the Reverend Mr. Tho- 
 mas Seagrave Reftor of Leir in Leicejlerjhire. About 
 the Year 1607 he removed to a School at Rughy in 
 F 3 War- 
 
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 TVarwick/hire, and remained there, under the Gare 
 of Mr. Holyoak Mafter thereof, for near two Years ; 
 and from thence he went to Cambridge, and was 
 admitted into St. John's College, about May 1698, 
 and Mr. John Harris Fellow of the fame, where he 
 contracfled his Acquaintance with Mr. Forjler. He 
 was at firft a Sizer, and then made Scholar ; foon 
 after which his Tutor died, and he (as they fay in 
 Cambridge) became Servitor to Mr. Edmundfon and 
 Mr. Lambert, and not long after went into Orders. 
 He was Curate at Carlton Curlieu near Harborough, 
 Leicefterjhire, and at the fame time Chaplain to 
 Sir Geoffry Palmer. From thence he went to l^am- 
 worth in Staffordjhire, and was Curate and Uiher 
 of the Free- School there. He went from thence to 
 Nun-Eaton in Warwick/hire, and was Curate to Mr. 
 Foxcraft. F>om thence he removed, being pre- 
 fented to the Vicarage of Horton on the Hill, Lei- 
 ceifterjhire, by the late Lord Bifhop of Oxon. The 
 Village is fituate in the South-weft Corner of the 
 County, both in the Deanry and Hundred of Spar- 
 kenhoe it is valued in the King's Books at 6/. izs. 
 6d. and the improved Rents are near 60/. per An- 
 num. He was inftituted into the aforefaid Vicarage 
 by his Grace the prefent Lord Arch- Bifhop of Can- 
 terbury, then Bifhop of Lincoln, on the 5th of May 
 1709 j to qualify himfelf for which, he took the 
 ufual Oaths to Queen Anne, and abjured the Pre- 
 tender. He went down with Mr. Gafcoign, Mr. 
 Cotton, and forne Others to meet the Rebels at Pre- 
 fton-, was feized on the Way by one commonly 
 called Major Bradjhaw, and Mr. Matthews, a 
 Clergyman ; and fet at Liberty again by one Colonel 
 Noel a Juftice of the Peace : But being born for 
 his Deftiny, he goes to Lane after, there join'd the 
 Rebels, and at Prefton importuned Mr. Patten that 
 he might read Prayers ; which was granted him, 
 tho unwillingly, becaufe he was in a Lay-Drefs : 
 
 There 
 
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 There he read Prayers thrice for the Pretender as 
 King. Juft before the King's Troops invefted that 
 Town, he went out, borrowing Mr. PaUen\ black 
 Coat, and leaving a Blue one he faid he had Let- 
 ters to a Lord in Staffordjhire. He was taken by 
 General mils, but difcharged. He called in his 
 own Country, in his way to London, where he ap- 
 pear'd in coloured Cloaths, laced Hat, and long 
 Wig, and a Sword by his Side ; but he was acci^ 
 dentally met near Montague-How^^ by l^homas Bird 
 Efqj Juftice of the Peace for the County of Lei- 
 c£fier, who knew him, and took him Pnfoner, 
 Becemh. 12. 1 715. He was carried to the Duke 
 Devonjhire's, afterwards Lord Townjhend's, Prin- 
 cipal Secretary of State, there examined, and put 
 into a Meffenger's Houfe, and 14 Days after was 
 fent to Newgate. He was arraigned at mjiminjler 
 on May 31. pleaded at firft. Not Guilty : After- 
 wards he withdrew his Plea was found Guilty ; 
 and^/yiS- 1 71 6. Drawn, Hang'd and Qiiarter'd 
 at Tyburn. 
 
 At firft, when Mr. Paul intended to engage, he 
 came boldly up to Mr. Forfter, as he was at Dinner 
 with Mr. Patten at the Recorder of Lancafierh 
 Houfe J he entred the Room in a Blue Coat, with 
 a long Wig and a Sword, and Mr. John Cotton of 
 Camhridgejhire with him. They let him know who 
 they were, and in a flourilhing way made a tender 
 of their Services for the Caufe which Mr. Forfter 
 accepting, they withdrew. Then Mr. Forfter told 
 Mr. Patten that the Taller of the two Gentkmen 
 was a Clergyman, and was of St. John's College in 
 Cambridge, and that he had given him a perfett 
 Account of General Carpenter's Marches, and that 
 he was then at Bernard' s-C2i!A.\t in the Bifhoprick ot 
 Durham, that his Men and Horfes were fore fe- 
 tigued, and the like. All which was true enough ; 
 tho' their being fo fatigued, did not binder their 
 . F 4 March 
 
[ 78 ] 
 
 March after us. While we were in this Town our 
 Number increafed confiderably ; and had we ftaid 
 here, or kept Garifon here, they would have con- 
 tinued fo to do. For in that time a great many 
 Lancajhire Gentlemen joined us, with their Servants 
 and Friends. It's true, they were moft of them 
 Papifts; which made Scots Gentlemen and the 
 Highlanders mighty uneafy, very much fufpeding 
 the Caufe ; for they expected all the High-Church 
 Party to have joined them. Indeed, that Party, 
 who never are right hearty for the Caufe, 'till they 
 are Mellow, as they call it, over a Bottle or two, 
 began now to fhew us their Blind- fide j and that it 
 is their juft Charafter, that they do not care for 
 venturing their Carcafles any farther than the Ta- 
 vern. There indeed, with their High-Church and 
 Onnond, they would make Men believe, who do 
 not know them, that they would encounter the 
 greateft Oppofition in the World; but after having 
 confulted their Pillows, and the Fume a little eva- 
 porated, it is to beobferved of them, that they gene- 
 rally become mighty Tame, and are apt to Look 
 before they Leap, and with the Snail, if you touch 
 their Houfes, they hide their Heads, fhrink back, 
 and pull in their Horns. I have heard Mr. Forjler 
 fay he was bluftered into this Bufinefs by fuch Peo- 
 ple as thefe, but that for the time to come he would 
 never again believe a drunken Tory. 
 
 Having now received what addition of. Force 
 they could exped in that part of the Country, and 
 haying firft difcharged fome Prifoners of their 
 Friends who were in the Caftle, particularly the 
 famous Tom Syddal, a Mob Captain, who was in 
 this Goal for the Riot at Manchefter, when the 
 Meeting- Houfe vsras pull'd down ; tho', all or moft 
 of the Prifoners, who were a confiderable Number, 
 got upon the Leads of the Caftle, and feeing us 
 advance, gaye jQu,d Huzza's. J went to view that 
 
 ancient 
 
[ 79 3 
 
 ancient Place, fo famous in our Hiftory, where thq 
 Prifoners defired me to reprefcnt their Cafe to Mr, 
 Forjier, which I did but was told by him, That . 
 they fhould have his MalVer's Pardon fpeedily, and 
 in the mean time ordered Syddal, and another Pri- 
 foner for Treafonable Words, to be difcharged. It 
 was time now to advance and open the Way fqr 
 their other Friends tp come in ; for as they had News 
 daily of Troops gathering to oppofe them, it was 
 time to extend themfelves, that they might join all 
 thofe who had promifed their Afliftance. To this 
 end, they moyed from Lancajler, taking the Road 
 to Pre/Ion, and defigning to poflefs themfelves of 
 PTarrington-Bndge, and of the Town of Manchejler^ 
 where they had Afllirances of great Numbers to join 
 them ; and by this means they made no doubt of 
 fecuring the great and rich Town of Liverpool, 
 which would be cut off from any Relief, if they 
 were once pofiefs'd of lFarrington-%ndgt. Accord- 
 ing to thefe Meafures the Horfe reach'd Prefton 
 that Night : The Day proving rainy, and the Ways 
 deep, they left the Foot at a fmall Market-Town 
 called Garfiang^ half-way between Lane after ^nd 
 Prefton : Here the unfortunate Mr. Muncafter join'd 
 us, who was afterwards executed, yet died very 
 Penitent, and own'd King George for his only 
 lawful Sovereign ; but the blazed Rumor of the 
 Church's being in Danger, haften'd him to the fatal 
 Tree. He was of very good Senfe and Natural 
 Parts, brought up an Attorney. The Foot were 
 prder'd to advance early next Morning to Prefton, 
 which they did accordingly. The Horfe, as is faid, 
 entred Prefton that Night, and found that two 
 Troops of Sianhope's Dragoons, formerly quartered 
 tliere, had removed upon their Approach. This 
 encouraged them exceedingly, and made them ima- 
 gine that the King's Forces would not look them 
 in the Face. The Foot coming up next Day, 
 
 being 
 
[ 80 ] 
 
 being 1'burfday the i oth of November, they marched 
 ftraight to the Crofs, and were there drawn up 
 as ufual, whilft the Pretender was proclaimed. 
 Here they were alfo joined by a great many Gen- 
 tlemen, with their Tenants, Servants, and Attend- 
 ants, and fome of very good Figure in the Coun- 
 try, but ftill all Papifts. They once refolved to 
 have marched out of Prejlon, and Order was given 
 to get ready on the Friday ; but that Order was 
 countermanded, and they refolved to continue till 
 the next Day, and then to advance. All this while 
 they had not the leaft Intimation of the Forces that 
 were preparing to oppofe them, much lefs of the 
 near approach of the King's Army : And as it is 
 a Queftion often afked, and which very few can 
 anfwer, viz. How they came to be fo utterly void 
 of Intelligence at that time, as to be fo ignorant of 
 the March of the King's I^orces, and to know no- 
 thing of them till they were within Sight of Prejlon, 
 and ready almoft to fall upon them ? It may be very 
 proper to give a plain and direct Anfwer to it, 
 which will in fhort be this, viz. That in all their 
 Marches Mr. Forftsr fpared neither Pains nor Coft 
 to be acquainted with all General Carpenter's Mo- 
 tions, of which he had conftant and particular Ac- 
 counts every Day, and fometimes twice a Day ; but 
 the Lancafhire Gentlemen gave him fuch Affurances 
 that no Force could come near them by Forty Miles 
 but they could inform him thereof, this made him 
 perfeftly eafy on that fide, relying entirely on the 
 Intelligence he expefled from them: And therefore, 
 when on the Saturday Morning he had given Orders 
 for his whole Army to march from Prefion towards 
 Manchefter, it was extremely furprizing, and he 
 could fcarce credit the Reports that General Wills 
 was advancing from TFigan to attack them : But 
 he was foon fatisfied of the Truth c^ it by MelTen- 
 gers on all hands. That Morning Mr. Paul the 
 
 Clergy- 
 
C 8i ] 
 
 Clergyman went off with Letters, as he then /aid, to 
 a Noble Lord in Stafford/hire^ and fome Friends in 
 Leice§fer/hire : He met General Wills and his Troops 
 on the Road, who (topped him and aiked him fome 
 Quellions but not fufpedting he was one of the 
 Rebels, he himfelf alfo putting on a contrary Face, 
 let him go : But I lliall have occafion to fay more of 
 him. The Alarm being now given, a Body of the , 
 Rebels marched out of the Town as far as Rihble- 
 Bridge, polling themfelves there ; and Mr. Forjier^ 
 with a Party of Horfe, went beyond it to get a cer- 
 tain Account of things ; when difcovering the Van- 
 guard of the Dragoons, he returned another Way, 
 not coming back by the Bridge. He ordered Mr, 
 Patten with all hafte to ride back, and give an 
 Account of the Approach of the King's Army, and 
 to give Orders to prepare to receive them, whilft he 
 went to view a Ford in the River, in order for a Pafr 
 fage to come behind them. The Foot that were ad- 
 vanced to the Bridge were about icq-, but they 
 were choice, flout, and well-armed Men, and com- 
 manded by Lieutenant- Colonel John Farquharfon of 
 Innercall, belonging to Mackintojh's, Battalion : He 
 was a good Officer and a very bold Man, and would 
 have defended that important Pafs of the Bridge to 
 the laft Drop, and till the reft had advanced and 
 drawn themfelves out of the Town but he was or- 
 dered to retreat to Prejlon : This Retreat was ano- 
 ther wrong Step, and has been condemned on all 
 hands as one of the greateft Overfights they could be 
 guilty of ; for the River is not fordable but a good 
 way above and below the Bridge, which they might 
 have made impaflable alfo, by feveral Methods pra(5li- 
 fed on like Occafions. As for the Bridge, they might 
 have barricado'd it fo well, that it would have been 
 impradlicable to have pafs'd there, or to have diflodg'd 
 them from it; alfo they had Cannon, which General 
 If^tlls wanted. And here alone indeed it might be 
 
 faid 
 
[ 82 ] 
 
 faid they were in a Condition to have made an ef- 
 fedual Stand ; for here the King's Forces would 
 have been entirely expofed to their Fire, having no 
 Cover 5 whereas the Rebels could have very much 
 fecured themfelves againft the others Fire by the 
 Bridge, and by the Rifing-Ground near it. General 
 Wills did indeed expeft fome DifRcuky and Oppo- 
 fitipn at this Place, believing, by their Situation, 
 that the Rebels would have made their greateft Ef- 
 fort at that Place ; but underftanding by his Ad- 
 vance- Guard that the Rebels had abandon'd that 
 Poft, he was furprized, and fufpeded that then they 
 had fome Stratagem in hand, and perhaps had lined 
 the Hedges, and fo made the Lane unpaffable for his 
 Men. The Lane is indeed very deep, and fo narrow 
 that in feveral Places two Men cannot fide a-breaft. 
 This is that famous Lane, at the end of which Oliver 
 Cromwell met with a ftout Refiftance from the Kings's 
 Forces, who from the Height rolled down upon him 
 and his Men (when they had entred the Lane) huge 
 large Mill-ftones ; and if Oliver himfelf had noc 
 forced his Horfe to jump into a Quick-Sand, he had 
 luckily ended his Days there. General IFills^ on 
 thefe Suppofitions, proceeded with Cautiqn, and 
 caufed the Hedges and Fields to be view*d, and the 
 Ways laid open for his Cavalry to enter but find-, 
 ing the Hedges alfo clear, he concluded then the 
 Enemy was fled, and expefted that they had aban- 
 don'd the Town and all, and would endeavour by 
 their long Marches to return to Scotland, tho' he 
 thought it impoffible for them to do it : But he 
 was foon inform*d that they were retreated to the 
 Town only, and that they refolv'd to receive him 
 therd with a refolute Countenance ; fo he had nOr 
 thing to do but to prepare for the Attack, which he 
 went about immediately. Having advanced nearer 
 the Town, he ordered his Troops to pafs at a Gate 
 which leads into the Fields which lie on the back 
 
 of 
 
[ 83 ] 
 
 of the Town, and immediately fprcading the En* 
 dofures with the utmoft Expedition and Diligence, 
 fo difpofed of his Forces as belt to be able both to 
 attack them in the Town, and to prevent them 
 from Sallying or making a Retreat. 
 
 During this time, the Rebels were not idle in the 
 Town, nor did they appear in the leaft difcourag'd, 
 but applied themfelves refolutely to their Bufmefs, 
 barricadoing the Streets, and polling their Men 
 in the Streets, by-Lanes, and Houfes, to the 
 greateft Advantage, for all Events. The Gentle- 
 men- Voluntiers were drawn up in the Church-yard, 
 under the Command of the Earl of Derwentwater^ 
 Vifcount Kenmure, Earls of JVintoun and Nithfdale. 
 The Earl of Derwentwater fignally behavM, having 
 ftript into his Waftcoat, and encouraged the Men, 
 by giving them Money to caft up Trenches, and 
 animating them to a vigorous Defence of them ; 
 "When he had fo done, he order'd Mr. Patten to 
 bring him conftantly an Account from al! the At- 
 tacks, how things went, and where Succours were 
 wanted which Mr. Patten did, till his Horfe was 
 fhot under him. The Rebels formed four main 
 Barriers ; one a little below the Church, command- 
 ed by Brigadier Macktntojh ; the Gentlemen in the 
 Church-yard were to fupport that Barrier in parti- 
 cular, and Lord Charles Murray that which was at 
 the end of a Lane leading to the Fields : The 
 third Barrier was called, the Windmill; this was 
 commanded by Colonel Mackintojh : And the fourth 
 was in the Street which leads towards Liverpool^ 
 commanded by Major Miller and Mr. Douglafs, 
 The three former were all attack'd with great Fury 
 by his Majefty's Forces : The firft Attack was made 
 upon that Barrier below the Church, commanded 
 hy W\g^(X\tx Mackintojh % but they iriet with fuch 
 a Reception, and fo terrible a Fire was made upon 
 them, as well from the Barricado as from the Houfes 
 on both Sides, that they were obliged to retreat back 
 
 to 
 
1 84 ] 
 
 to the Entrance of the Town. During the Heat of 
 this Adlion, fome of Prejlotfs Officers being inforhi*d 
 that the Street leading to Wtgan was not barricado'd, 
 and that the Houfes were not poflefs'd on that fide, 
 they prefently entered that Street with great Bravery' 
 pufhing all before them. Preftorfs, Regiment of 
 Foot were commanded upon this Service, fupportcd 
 by Honeywood*s Dragoons. It is true, the Rebels 
 had at firft taken PoifefTion of that Street, and poll- 
 ed Men in the Houfes on both Sides but were, 
 againft their Inclination, called off to other Ser- 
 vice ; nor were they left, as fome defir*d, to poll 
 themfelves at the extremeft Ends of the Town, 
 even at that End which leads to the Bridge, where 
 the firft and hotteft Attack was made. Several 
 Houfes were left, particularly one which belonged 
 to Sir Henry Haughton : Captain Imis with Fifty 
 Highlanders had taken PoffefTion of this Houfe ; 
 and had he been allowed to have continued there, 
 he would have given a good Account of it ; 
 but he being obliged to leave that Poft, fome of 
 Preftoffs Men got Polfeffion of that too, the' it 
 coft them dear, for many of their Men were kilPd 
 there from other Houfes. It is a high Houfe, 
 over-looking the whole Town : There was alfo ano- 
 ther Houfe oppofite to it, which they entered, and 
 ported feveral of their Men in it. And from thefe 
 two Houfe came almoft all the Lofs the Rebels fu- 
 ftained during the Aftion. Mr. Forfter cannot be 
 blamed for this Overfight, but it muft be charged 
 upon the Brigadier, who, wh^en the Regiment of 
 P reft Off s Foot made this brave and bold Attack and 
 Attempt, withdrew his Men from thofc Houfes. 
 The Attack was thus, Prefton's Men, led by their 
 Lieutenant-Colonel the Lord Forrefter, did not 
 come up the Head of the Street, but marched into 
 a ftraight Paffage behind the Houfes, and then made, 
 a Halt till their Lieutenant-Colonel the Lord For- 
 
 refter 
 
[ 8s ] 
 
 refter came into the open Street with his drawn- 
 Sword in his Hand, and faced Mackintojh^s Barrier, 
 looking up' the Street and down the Street, and 
 viewing how they were polled. There were many 
 Shots fired at him*, but he returned to his Men, and 
 came up again at the Head of them into the Mid* 
 die of the Street, where he caufed fome to face the 
 Barricade where the Brigadier: was polled, and ply 
 them with their Shot, at the fame time commanding 
 another Party to march crofs the Streets, to take 
 Poffeffion of thofe Houfes. It was a very defperate 
 Attempt, and fhews him an Officer of an undaunted 
 Courage. Whilft this was doing, the Rebels front 
 the Barrier, and from the Houfes on both fidesj 
 made a terrible Fir^ upon them, and a great many 
 of that old ;and gallant Regiment were kill'd and 
 w6unded : The Lord Forrefter received feveral 
 Wounds himfelf. .Befides the Damage they, received 
 on that fide, ;they were fore galled from fbme Winr 
 dows below theft! , by Oa^mn Douglafs and Captain 
 Bunter*i Men. ' : Preftotfs, Foot fired fmartly uport 
 the Rebels, -but: did little Execution, the Men being 
 generally cover'd from the Shot, and delivering their 
 own Shot fecurely, and with good Aim yet fomfe 
 were kill'd, .and. fome alfo wounded, particularly 
 two very galknt Gentlemen were wounded here, 
 and both dy'd of their Wounds ; the one was Cap- 
 tain Peter Farquharfon of Rochaley\ a Gentleman of 
 an invincible Spirit, and almoft inimitable Bravery. 
 ■•This Gentleman being lliot through the Bone of hi^ 
 Leg, endured a great deal of Torture in the Ope- 
 ration of the Surgeon. When he was firft brought 
 into the Inn call'd the White-BulU the Houfe where 
 all the wounded Men were carryM to be drefs'd, he 
 took a Glafs of Brandy, and faid, £omey Lads^ 
 here is our Mailer's Health ; tho* I can do no more^ I 
 wijh you good Succefs. His Leg was Cut off by an 
 unlkilful Butcher, , rather than a Surgeon, and he 
 
 prefently 
 
[86] 
 
 {irefently died. The other Gentlerilan wds Mn 
 Clifton^ Brother to Sir Jervas CliftoH ; he was alfo at 
 gallant and thoroughly accomplilhed Gentleman ; 
 he received a Shot in his Knee, of ^hich he died 
 fome Hours after. There was another Gentlemart 
 callM Colonel Brereton^ who had formerly ferv*d in 
 the Army ; he had many Wounds, one of which^ 
 by the vaft Flux of Blood, Was not difcover*d foon 
 enough by his Surgeon, or elfe it*s thdught he might 
 have out-liv'd his Fate that Day : After he was bu- 
 ry *d, he was taken out of his Grave, to fatisfy the 
 Curiofity of a Commanding Officer, who could not 
 be perfuaded that this Gentleman was in the Re- 
 bellioHi 
 
 The next Barrier which was attack'd, was com- 
 manded by Lord Charles Murray : He behav*d 
 very gallantly, but being very vigoroufly attack'd, 
 wanted Men, and order'd Mr; Patten to acquaint 
 the Earl of Derwentwater therewith ; who imme- 
 diately fent back Mr. Patten with Fifty Gentlemen 
 Voluntiers from the Church-yard to reinforce him, 
 who came in very good Seafon. Immediately Mr. 
 Patten was order*d over the Barrier to view the King's 
 Forces, who appearing in a Clergyman's Habit^ 
 was not fufpeded, nor fired on. He foon returned 
 back, and gave Lord Charles an Account, that by 
 what he faw, they were refolved to attack him again ; 
 whereupon Lord Charles gave Orders to his Men to 
 be ready to receive them ; and accordingly they 
 came on very furioufly : And tho' the King's Forces 
 that made this Attack, were, for the moft part, 
 raw, new-lifted Men, and feem'd unwilling to fight ; 
 yet the Bravery and good Condudl of experienc'd 
 Officers fupply'd very much that Defeat. How- 
 ever, Lord Charles Murray maintain'd the Poft, and 
 oblig'd them to retreat with Lofs ; nor, had they 
 been all old Soldiers, could they have beaten Lord 
 Charles from that Barrier, which was_ very Ilrong ; 
 
tne Number they had flain from the Barn-holes and 
 Barrier itfelf added very much, fo that at laft the 
 Officers themfelves thought fit to give it over. And 
 however fome, in their dying Speeches afterwards, 
 were pleafed to leflen the Bravery of the King's 
 Forces ; this may be offered in Anfwer, That not- 
 Withftanding the Afperfion we all know that he that 
 publickly difplay'd it, could not be a Judge of the 
 Faft ; for no' Body ever faw him at any Poft of 
 Danger himfelf. On the contrary, the Author here- 
 of, who was an Eye-witnefs to the Three Attacks, 
 can affure the World, he faw that very Gentleman 
 who left that Afperfion in his Dying Speech, placed 
 very fecurely out of all Danger, in an Ale-houfe, 
 where, he was afiur'd, he remain'd during the whole 
 A(5tion. 
 
 Hitherto the Rebels feem*d to have had fome Ad- 
 vantage, having repulfed the King's Forces in 
 all theif Attacks, and maintained all their Pofts ; 
 and Night drawing on, no new Ad:ion happened ; 
 but during all this time, and all Saturday-Kight and 
 Sunday, and good part of that Night, the King's 
 Forces kept inceflantly Plattoons firing upon the 
 Rebels from Sir Henry Haiighton\ and Mr. Ayre*^ 
 Houfes. It's true, they kill'd but very few ; thofe 
 of Note were, one Mr. Hume a Cornet, one Mr. 
 Scattery, and a Highland Gentleman belonging to 
 the Lord Nairn. There were feveral Houfes and 
 Barns fet on fire by both Parties, both for covering 
 themfelves among the Smoak, and diQodging Men ; 
 fo that if the Wind had blown almoft from any 
 quarter, that Town had been burnt to the Ground, 
 and the Rebels had been burnt to Afhes in it. I 
 lhall, as I defign'd, impartially hint at all the Mi- 
 ftakes on both Sides ; and this was one, the King's 
 General had order'd Illuminations to be fet in all the 
 Windows of the Houfes where they had Pofleffion, 
 which, as long as they continued burning, expofed 
 
 G ths 
 
[ 88 ] 
 
 the Rebels that were croffing the Streets upon all Oc* 
 cafions, to the plain View of thofe poffeffed of the 
 Houfes aforefaid, and gave them a good Aim at 
 their Mark. This was the Occafion of the Death 
 of fome, and Wounds of others, even on both 
 Sides fo that after a fhort time. Orders were given 
 for fome to go to all the Houfes, and call aloud to 
 the People to put out their Candles. Which being 
 fliouted aloud (as is faid) in the Streets, for the 
 People had Ihut all their Doors, they millook the 
 Command, and inftead of putting out or extinguifh- 
 ing their Lights, fet up more ; which amufed both 
 Sides, but did no harm to either. 
 
 The third Attack was at the Windmill in the 
 Street which leads to Lancafler^ where the Barrier 
 was defended by near 300 Men, under the Com- 
 mand of Mr. Mackintojh^ who, with his Men, be- 
 haved very boldly, and made a dreadful Fire upon 
 the King*s Forces, killing many on the fpot, and 
 obliging them to make a Retreat which, however, 
 they did very handfomely. This was owing to the 
 common Men, who were but new lifted ; though 
 the Officers and old Soldiers behav'd themfelves with 
 great Bravery. After this, the Rebels began to fee 
 their Error, by being impos'd on to give Credit to 
 the many Falfhoods told them, of which this was 
 one, That they might be affured that the King's 
 Forces would all come over to them : Yet not one 
 Man offer'd to do fo ; for of feveral private Men 
 made Prifoners, being wounded, not one of them 
 would liften to the Offers made to Enlift, but chofe 
 rather to be fhut up in clofe Prifon, than to forfake 
 their King and Country's Caufe. One private Man 
 belonging to Brigadier Frefton\ Foot, that was 
 wounded, and laid in Bed with two others, when 
 Mr. Tatten went to that Bsd where they were, which 
 was at the White-Bull^ having aflced them feveral 
 Queftions, told them he was ready to pray with 
 
 them. 
 
[ 89 ] 
 
 tiienl, as he was a Clergyman ; that Soldier above- 
 mentioned anfvvered, Jf you he a Prote§fant, we d^- 
 fire your Prayers, hut name not the Pretender as King, 
 A fufficient Demonftration that the common Impo- 
 fition was falfe and a very fure Sign that King 
 G E o R G e's Forces were not merely Mercenary. 
 Nay, Major Predion and Captain Ogleby, as well as 
 feveral common Soldiers that were made Prifoners, 
 being wounded, affured us, that not one Man be- 
 longing to the iCing*s Forces but would die in their 
 Country's Caufe ; and told us we could not be able 
 to hold out, for that more Forces were alfo coming 
 from all Quarters they informed us of the Arrival 
 of General Carpenter with three Regiments of Dra- 
 goons to furround us. 
 
 This brave General, after his long^ troublefonie* 
 and difmal Marches after the Rebels, had very much 
 weary 'd his Men, but more the Horfes, for want of 
 good Forage, returned to NewcaBle, having Intel- 
 ligence that the Rebels were gone over the Moun- 
 tains to join Mar, which was impradlicable for his 
 heavy Horfe. Having fcarce refrefhed himfelf, he 
 had an Expfefs from Sir Henry Haughton^ that the , 
 Rebels were marching towards Lancafter. Upon 
 which, with all imaginary Speed, over high Moun- 
 tains and deep Ways, he at laft came to CUthero, a 
 Town 12 Miles from Prejion, on Saturday Night 
 that the Adon was begun. Whilft he was here, he 
 receiv'd another Exprefs from Sir Henry Haughton of 
 ail the Affair ; which made him ufe' his wonted Vi- 
 gilance to have the Horfes taken care of, fo that they 
 might be able early in the Morning to halten to- 
 wards Prefton % which they performed with the 
 greateft Expedition, for they came before Pre^^on 
 betwixt Nine and Ten on Sunday Morning. The 
 Prifoners acquainted us likewife with the Difpofiti- 
 ons he had taken^ and the Alterations he had made 
 in the Poft^, to prevent our Efcape, 
 
 G 2 i^n^ 
 
C 90 3 
 
 And now our People began to open their Eyes, 
 and to fee that there was nothing but prefent Death 
 before them, if they held out longer ; and that there 
 was no Remedy, but, if poflible, to make Terms, 
 and get a Capitulation for Life, and lay down their 
 Arms. But of this^ it is neceffafy that a gradual 
 Account be given in the Order in which it happen'd j 
 for it was not all done in a Moment, 
 
 General Carpenter^ I fay, was now arriv'd with 
 ChurchiWs, Molefworthh^ and Cohham^ Dragoons, 
 and a great many Gentlemen of the Country with 
 him, as the Earl of CarliJIe, Lord Lumley, Colonel 
 Darcy, and others. 
 
 The General having an Account from General 
 of' what had pafs'd, approved very well of 
 what had been done, but found it necelTary to make 
 fome fmall Alterations in the Difpofitions of the 
 Troops : He found three Attacks had been made, 
 though not with the defir'd Succefs, and yet that 
 the Rebels would be forced to furrender at laft, or 
 be taken Sword in Hand. 
 
 Here it is neceffary to obferve, as part of the 
 Reafon why the firft Attack was not immediately 
 fuccefsful, 'uiz. becaufe of the Barricade's and Can- 
 non which the Rebels were pofTeffed of But by the 
 •way, I muft obferve, that the Rebels, though they 
 had fix Pieces of Cannon, did not much ufe them, 
 except at firft only ; in flhort, they knew not how, 
 having no Engineers among them ; and a Seaman 
 who pretended Judgment, and upon his own Offer 
 took the Management of the Cannon at the Briga- 
 dier's Barricado, aded fo madly, whether it was 
 that he had too little Judgment, or too much Ale, 
 or perhaps both, that in levelling one of the Pieces 
 to cut off Pre/Ion's Foot, who advanc'd to attack 
 us, the Ball brought dowu the Top of a Chimney. 
 It is true, the next he fired did Execution, and 
 gblig*d the Regiment to halt i though upon all Oc- 
 
 cafions 
 
i9i] 
 
 cafions they behavM with a great deal of Bravery 
 and Order. But this by the way. Lieutenant- Ge- 
 neral Carpenter was, as. I have faid, now arriv'd, 
 and had view*d the Pofts and the Situation of the 
 Rebels ; and finding rnoft part of the Horfe and 
 Dragoons of the King's Troops pofted on one fide 
 of the Town, very incommodioufly on many Ac- 
 counts, being crouded in a deep narrow Tane near 
 the End of the Town, and befides that, fo incon- 
 venient for the Service, that it was impoflible to 
 draw up above three or four in the Front, he brought 
 them off in Parties to feveral other Places. Alfo, 
 going to view the Ground towards the River, he 
 found, to his great Surprize, that no Troops were 
 pofted at the End of Fijhergate ftreet, to block up 
 that part of the Town ; and that for want of it, fe- 
 veral of the Rebels had efcaped there, and more rid, 
 off that Way even before his Face. This Street 
 leads to a Marfh or Meadow which runs down to 
 that part of the River Ribble where there are two 
 good Fords, being the High- way towards Liverpool. 
 At the upper End of this Street there was another 
 Barricade, with two Pieces of Cannon, (as is already 
 faid :) But no Attack had been made on this Side •, nor 
 indeed could it be fo, the fewTroops confider'd. Here 
 the Lieutenant- General order'd Colonel Pitt to poft 
 his two Squadrons of Horfe, and extend themfelves 
 into that Marlh, in order to prevent any more efca- 
 ping that Way j as it effeflually did ; for fome bold 
 Fellows attempting to efcape after this, were all cut 
 to Pieces by the Horfe : Alfo the General caufed a 
 Communication to be open'd through the Inclofures 
 on that Side, that his Poft might be relieved, in 
 cafe the whole Body fliould attempt to force their 
 Retreat that Way, as it was given out they would, 
 and as indeed they might have done ; but they had 
 jio fuch good Meafures in their Heads. 
 
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 The Rebels being thus invefted on all Sides, 
 that they found themfelves entirely block'd up, and 
 being now fenfible, tho' too late, of their Condition, 
 and alfo that they were fhort of Powder for an ob- 
 ftinate Refiftance, began to confider what to do. 
 The Highlanders were for fallying out upon the King's 
 Forces, and dying, as they call-d it, like Men of 
 Honour, with their Swords in their Hands ; but 
 they were over-ruPd, and were not allow'd to ftir : 
 Nor was the Motion communicated to the whole 
 Body ; but General Forfter, prevail'd upon by my 
 Lord Widdrington^ Colonel Oxhurgk, and fome few 
 Others, refolv'd upon a Capitulation, flattering them- 
 felves with obtaining good Terms from the King's 
 Officers. Colonel Oxhurgh pretending Acquaintance 
 with fome of the Officers, made an Offer to go out 
 and treat of a Surrender. 
 
 As this was done without the Knowledge of the 
 Rebel Army, the Common Soldiers were told that 
 General Wills had fent to offer honourable Terms to 
 them, if they would lay down their Arms ; fo 
 blinded were we with their Tory Lies to the laft ; 
 But certain it is, that Gentleman, had his Defign 
 been known, had never feen 'Tyhurn, for he had 
 been lliot dead by the Confent of all the Common 
 Men, before he had gone out of the Barrier. How- 
 ever, go he did, and made fuch a Bargain for them, 
 as the Circumftances of Things might eafily tell 
 them they could expe<5t no other ; and which, had 
 not the Gentlerrien thus abandon'd them, the Sol- 
 diers would not have yielded to. But be that as ic 
 ■^ill, he went with the Trumpet to the General, 
 who allow'd him to come and go freely •, but told 
 him, They might expedl no other Terms, than to 
 ;lay down their Arms, and furrender at Difcretion. 
 'The Colonel, to give him his due, urg'd all the 
 Arguments he could for better Terms ; but was 
 tpid, That they muft fubmit to the King's Mercy, 
 
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 there was no other Terms could be made with them. 
 The General told Colonel Oxhurgb, He knew that 
 in the Cafe of a Rebellion reduced, it was not ra- 
 tional to expeft, or ufual to give other Terms. 
 The Colonel coming back with this Anfwer, a fe- 
 cond Meffage was fent out by Captain Dalziely to 
 defire Time to confider of it. About Three in the 
 Afternoon, Colonel Cotton^ with a Dragoon, and a 
 Drum beating a Chamade before them, came up the 
 Street from the King's General : The Colonel a- 
 lighted at the Sign of the Mitre, where the Chief 
 of the Rebel- Officers were got together, and told 
 them he came to receive their pofitive Anfwer. 
 •Twas told him. There were Difputes betwixt the 
 Englijh and ScotSy that would obftru6f, the Yielding, 
 which Others were willing to fubmit to ; but if the 
 General would grant them a Ceffation of Arms till 
 the next Morning at Seven, they fhould be able to 
 fettle the Matter, and that the Gentlemen promifed 
 they would then fubmit. Colonel Cotton fent the 
 Drum to beat a Chamade before the Doors of fome 
 Houfes where the King's Men continued firing, to 
 caufe them to ceafe, on account of the Ceflation 
 which was agreed' to, and to order them to with- 
 hold till they had Notice from the General ; but 
 the poor Fellow was Ihot dead upon his Horfe as 
 he was beating his Drum. It is faid this was not 
 done by the King's Men, (for they muft: needs 
 know him to be one of their own Drums, by his 
 Livery and Mounting) but that it was done by fome 
 of the Rebels who were averfe to all Thoughts of 
 Surrender. 
 
 And here, becaufe the Rebels and their Friends 
 have given it out fince, that they had fuch Terms 
 granted them at this fhort Treaty which would fe- 
 cure their Lives , and that the Terms of Surrender 
 ought fo to be underftood, I fhall give you a true 
 and faithful Account of the Capitulation itfelf, with 
 
 G 4 its 
 
[ 94 ] 
 
 its Circumftances, as it was given upon Oath 
 General Wills himfelf at the Lords Bar at the Earl 
 of Wintouns Trial ; The General there declared, 
 " That having the Honour to command his Ma- 
 " jefty's Troops that attacked the Rebels at Prejlon^ 
 " he came before that Town on the 12th of No- 
 l'' vemher laft about One o'Clock, and prder'd two 
 Attacks upon the Town j the Attack which led 
 " to fVigan being commanded by Brigadier Honey- 
 " wood^ who beat the Rebels from their fir ft Bar- 
 ' * ricade, and took Pofreflion of fome of the Houfes 
 " in the Town ; the other Attack which led to 
 " Lancafier, under the Command of Brigadier Dor- 
 " mer^ who lodged his Troops nigh the Barricade 
 " of the Rebels. The next Day about Two of thp 
 " Clock Mr. Forfter fent out one Mr. Oxhurgh an 
 *' Irijhman, offering to lay down their Arms and 
 " fubmit themfelves, and hoped this Deponent 
 *' would recommend them to the King's Mercy. 
 " Which this Deponent refufed, and told him, he 
 " would not treat with Rebels, for that they had 
 , «' kill'd feveral of the King's Subjedls, and they 
 **■ muft exped to undergo the fame Fate. That 
 " upon this Oxhurgh faid, That as this Deponent 
 " was a Man of Honour and an Officer, h^ hoped 
 *' he would fhew Mercy tp People that were wil- 
 " ling to fubmit. Upon this the Deponent faid, 
 " All he would do for thern was, That if they laid 
 " down their Arms, and fubmjtted Prifoners at 
 " Difcretion, he would prevent the Soldiers from" 
 " cutting them in Pieces till he had farther Orders 
 " and that he would give them but an Hour tp 
 confider of it. That he fent Oxhurgh back into 
 the Town to acquaint Forjier of it i and before 
 " the Hour was expired they fent out Mr. Dajziel, 
 *' Brother to the Earl of Carnwath^ who wanted 
 Terms for the Scots, That this Deponent's An- 
 fwer was. That he would not treat with Rebels, 
 
 ** nor 
 
[95] 
 
 nor give them any other Terms than what he had 
 ^' before offered them. Upon which it was defired 
 that this Deponent would grant farther Time, 
 till Seven o'Clock next Day, to confult the beft 
 *' Method of delivering themfelves up. That this 
 " Deponent agreed to grant them the Time defi- 
 ^' red, provided they threw up no new Intrench- 
 *' ments in the Streets, nor fuffered any of their 
 ** People to efcape, and that they fent out the C^hief 
 of the Englijh and Scotch as Hoftages for the Per- 
 ^' formance : And this Deponent fent in Colonel 
 ** Cotton to bring them out ; who brought out the 
 " Earl of Derwentwater and Mr. Mackintojh. That 
 " the next Day, about Seven o' Clock, Mr. Forjler 
 *' fent out to let this Deponent know that they 
 were willing to give themfelves up Prifoners at 
 " Difcretion, as he had demanded. That Mr. Mac- 
 *^ kintojh being by when the Meffage was brought, 
 faid. He could npt anfwer that the Scotch woill4 
 " furrender in that manner, for that the Scots were 
 ^' People of defperate Fortunes, and that he liad 
 been a Soldier himfelf, and knew >yhat it was to 
 *' be a Prifoner at Difcretion. That upon this the 
 Deponent faid. Go back to your People again, 
 *' and I will attack the Town, and the Confequence 
 *' will be, I will not fpare one Man of you. That 
 *' Mackintojh went back, but came, running out im- 
 ^' mediately again, and faid. That the Lord Ken- 
 " fnure, and the reft of the Noblemen, with his 
 " Brother, would furrender in like manner with 
 ^' the EngliJh, 
 
 General Wills farther depofed, " That when the 
 Attack was made by the King's Forces, between 
 60 and 70 Men were kill*d ; and that there were 
 kiird and wounded about 130. And being afk'd 
 *' by the Attorney-General whether he gave the 
 " Rebels any Encouragement to hope for Mercy ? 
 ^* he again declared , That all the Terms h^ gave 
 
 ** them 
 
[ 96 ] 
 
 ^ them was , that he would fave their Lives froiil 
 the Soldiers till farther Orders, if they lurren- 
 ** der'd at Pifcretion ; (the Meaning of which was, 
 ^ That by the Rules of War it was in his Powef 
 to cut them all to Pieces, but he would give them 
 '* their Lives till farther Order ;) and if they did 
 *^ not comply, he would renew the Attack, and 
 *^ not fpare a Man. 
 
 This Depofition was confirmed by Colonel 
 Churchill, Colonel Cotton, and Brigadier Munderi. 
 Befides this, I can aflfure the World that I heard the 
 Anfwer which Colonel Cotton, whilft he was at the 
 Milre, gave to a Gentleman among the Rebels, 
 Vho a{k*d if they might have Mercy ? he told him. 
 Sir, that I cannot ajfure you of, hut I know the King 
 id he a very merciful Prince and that then he de- 
 manded of all the Noblemen and Gentlemen to give 
 their Parole of Honour to perform what they on 
 their Part promifed. 
 
 Having thus fet this Matter in a clear Light, I 
 ihall now give a farther Account of what happen*d 
 in the Town : The common Men were one and all 
 againft kpitulating, and were terribly enrag'd when 
 they were tbld of it, declaring that they would die 
 fighting •, and that when they could defend their 
 Pofts Ho longer, they would force their way out, 
 ifind make a Retreat. It is true this might have been 
 attempted, and perhaps many would have efcap'd 
 t>ut it could not have been perform'd without the 
 Lofs of a great deal of Blood , and that on both 
 Sides; and it was told them that it would be fo, 
 and that if they did get out, they would be cut off 
 by the Country People : But their Madnefs w^s 
 fuch , that nothing could quiet them for a great 
 while*, and it was aftonifhing to fee the Confufion 
 the Town was in, threatning one another, nay kil- 
 iing one smother but for naming a Surrender j one 
 
 was. 
 
t 97 ] 
 
 was fhot dead, and feveral wounded. In this Dilem* 
 nia many exclaim'd againft Mr. Forfier^ and had he 
 appear'd in the Street he would certainly have been 
 cut to Pieces ; but as he did not appear publickly, 
 yet he had been adually kill'd in his Chamber by 
 Mr. Murray^ had not I with my Hand ft ruck up 
 the Piftol with which he fired at him, fo that the 
 Bullet went thro' the Wainfcot into the Wall of the 
 Koom. And fince I mention Mr. Forfier, I cannot 
 but juftiify him againft the many Afperfions he lies 
 under in this Part of the Adtion, I mean, as a Cow- 
 ard. It muft be own'd he was no Soldier, nor was 
 the Command given to him as fuch, but as he was 
 the only Proteftant who could give Repute to their 
 Undertaking, being of Note in Northumberland^ of 
 an ancient Family, and having for feveral Years 
 been Member of Parliament for that County , and 
 therefore very popular : For if the Command had 
 been given to either of the two Lords, their Chara- 
 tSters, as Papifts, would have difcouraged many of 
 the People, and been improved againft the Defign 
 in general. As to Matters of Conduct, Mr. Forfier, 
 tho* he was call'd General, yet he always fubmitted 
 to the Counfel of Colonel Oxburgh^ who was for- 
 merly a Soldier, and had obtain'd a great Reputa- 
 tion ; tho' it is manifeft in our Cafe that he either 
 •.wanted Condud or Courage, or perhaps both : He 
 was better at his Beads and Prayers than at his Bii- 
 ■finefs as a Soldier ; and we all thought him fitter 
 for a Prieft" than a Field Officer. It muft be 6wn*d 
 he was very devout in his Religion, and that is all 
 the Good we can fay of him ; and that Devotion he 
 has fince had great occafion for in another Place. 
 Befides the Influence of Colonel Oxhurgh, my Lord 
 iViddrington had too great Prevalency over Mr. Forr 
 fier'% eafy Temper and this Lord we thought un- 
 derftood fo little of the Matter, that he was as unfit 
 for a General as the pther i for tho* the Family of 
 
 Wtddringion 
 
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 Widdrington be fam'd in Hiftory for their Bravery 
 and Loyalty to the Englijh Crown, yet there is lit- 
 tle of it left in this Lord, or at lead he did not 
 fiiew it, that ever we could find, unlefs it confifted 
 in his early Perfuafions xjq furrender j for he was 
 never fcen at any Barrier, or in any Aftion but 
 where there was the leaft Hazard. He was wonder- 
 fully efteem'd at Home by all the Gentlemen of the 
 County, and it" had been happy for him, and fo we 
 thought it would have been better for us (the Re- 
 bels) if he had ftay*d at Home. I heard a Gentle- 
 man fay, He was vex-d to be under the Com- 
 " mand of an Officer that could not travel without 
 *' ftrong Soup in a Bottle for his Officer never 
 *' wanted ftrong Broth wherever he came, both be- 
 '* fore and after he was Prifoner!*. An Account of 
 his Family is inferted in the Appendix. - 
 
 But to return to Mr. Forfier : He fhew'd feveral 
 times Forwardnefs enough for Adtion, and particu- 
 larly that he was very far from being a Coward, by 
 his riding up to MackintoJlH Barrier twice, in the 
 very Face of the King's Troops and when he was 
 expofed to the Shot of thofe poffeffed of the Houfes 
 on both Sides of the Street, -where I heard him 
 command the Brigadier to advance without the Bar- 
 ricado, and make a Sally, which he pofitively re- 
 fufed. What Reafon he gave I know not ; Mr, 
 Forfter, however, warmly told him. He would have 
 him try*d by a Court-Martial,- if he out-liv*d the 
 Service of the Day, and if ever his King came. 
 This occafioned the Grudge which ftill continued be- 
 twixt them even in Newgate. The Brigadier has 
 got the Charader of Brave and Bold : He has given 
 fignal Inftances thereof beyond Seas ; but we all 
 muft fay, we faw very little of it at Prejion. Anor 
 ther Scandal upon Mr. Forfier^ is, That he betray*d 
 them to the King's Troops : And this I muft needs 
 obferve to be a very evident Slander, and was fet 
 
 on 
 
[99] 
 
 on Foot here by a Party, who did not do it fq 
 much to injure Mr. Forjier, as with another and 
 bafer Defign, viz. that by having this credited, they 
 tnight blafh the Reputation of the Commanding 
 Officers of his Majefty's Troops, and of the Troops 
 themfelves ; alfo fuggefting, that if the Rebels had 
 not been fold, the King's Forces could not have 
 reduced them ; and alfo, that if they had not been 
 fare of Forfter\ they v^^ould have given better Terms 
 to them when they did fubmit. The contrary ap- 
 pears by the Ufage Mr. Forfier had receiv'd after- 
 wards when a Prifoner ; which tho' it may be faid 
 it was good enough for a Rebel, yet will make it 
 evident' that he was no way favoured, as fhall appear 
 farther hereafter. The fame People who contrived 
 the firft Story, have added at laft, when he made 
 his Efcape, that it was by Concert from the Govern- 
 ment as if the King would agree to fuch a mean 
 Piece of Policy, as rather to wink at his Efcape, 
 than to give him a Pardon ; a thing which could 
 not lie hid long without being difcovered, becaufe 
 feveral muft be concerned, nay, common Servants, 
 Turnkeys, muft have their Share in fuch a De- 
 fign. After all, if the Truth was known, or when 
 the Truth fhall be known, it may perhaps appear 
 that it was contrived and procured by the Tory Par- 
 ty, among whom there were many, doubdefs, who 
 were afraid he would Squeak, and make fome con- 
 cern'd in Contributions, and Under-hand Affiftances 
 in the Rebellion, be brought to Juftice. I conclude 
 his Cafe with faying, that after feveral Affronts 
 which he receiv'd, and the Calumnies he lies under 
 for fubmitting, yet we foon found they all came in- 
 to his Meafures, and tamely fubmitted at Difcretion. 
 Thus they were all made Prifoners next Morning at 
 Seven, being the 14th of Nonjember, and being dif- 
 armed, were all at once put into the Power of the 
 King's Troops. And here it may not be improper 
 
 to 
 
[ ^<^o ] 
 
 to obferve wKat a fatal Day the 1 3th of Novemhe^ 
 proved to the Pretender and his Friends. For as 
 Prefton was taken, and the Rebels in England fur- 
 render'd to the King's Troops in hancajhire^ fo the 
 Batde of Du7nUain, as it was called here, or of 
 Sheriff- Moor J as in Scotland, was fought and loft in 
 Scotland by the Earl of Mar. And to add to the 
 Remark, in the North of Scotland, the Town of 
 Invernefs was retaken by the good Condu6t of the 
 Lord Lovat, and the Houfe of Grant, and their 
 Afliftants : So that this -Day feemed to determine 
 the Fate of the PreienderJ^But I return to the Ac- 
 count of the Surrender at ^Prefton. Before the ap-^ 
 pointed Hour came, feveral of the King's Forces 
 entred that part of the Town which the Rebels held, 
 and began to plunder, looking upon what they got 
 their own, by Rule of War. But Complaint being 
 made, they were flopped for fome time. At laft 
 the two Generals entred the Town in Form, at the 
 Head of the Troops ; one Party under General 
 Wills, entred at that End which leads to Lancajler ; 
 Brigadier Honeywood at the Head of the remaining 
 Part of the Troops, entred at that End which leads 
 to Manchefier, They came in with Sound of Trum- 
 pets and Beat of Drums, both Parties meeting at 
 the Market-Place. Here the Highlanders ftood 
 drawn up with their Arms ; the Lords, Gentlemen^ 
 and Officers were firft fecured, and placed under a 
 Guard in feveral Rooms in the Inns, where they 
 remained fome time. The Highlanders laid down 
 their Arms in the Place where they ftood drawn up, 
 and then were put into the Church under a fufficient 
 Guard. When all was fafe, by the Rebels being 
 thus difarmed and fecured. General Carpenter feeing 
 there would not be room enough in the Town for 
 near the Number of Horfe which were there, and 
 confidering the three Regiments that came with him 
 had been extremely harrafs'd by above a Month's 
 
 continual 
 
C ^01 ] 
 
 continual long Marches, he, to preferve the Regi- 
 ments, fent them the fame Day to Jf^igan, there ta 
 reft a Day or two, and then move on by gentle 
 Marches to their feveral Quarters ; leaving the Care 
 of the Prifoners to General PVilhy who, tho' he was 
 not the Commander in Chief, yet as he had been 
 the firft Manager of the Work, the General would 
 not take from him any part of the Honour of the 
 Vi(5lory, or leffen him upon any Account. It is 
 true, it was the Misfortune of thefe two brave Ge- 
 nerals to differ about fome Pundilio's in this Cafe 
 fome time after, and that fome would have it to 
 be upon the Account of leffening one another in 
 the Affair of Prejlon ; yet I have been informed 
 that Difpute was rather upon fome other account, a 
 former Mifunderftanding having been between them 
 when beyond Sea. But to let that fall, as not to 
 our prefent Purpofe. General Carpenter^ as I have 
 laid, went off the 1 5th with the Earl of Carlijle^ 
 Lord Lumley, Colonel Darcy, and the reft of the 
 Gentlemen, who having been now with him ten 
 Days, had been very ferviceable in procuring con- 
 ftant Intelligence of the Rebels, by the great In- 
 tereft they have in that Country. The Slain on 
 both Sides were buried, and then General JVills pre- 
 pared to march : Thofe that were killed or wound- 
 ed belonging to the King's Forces, were as follow 1 
 viz. the Wounded, Brigadier Honeywood received a 
 Contufion on the Shoulder by a Mufket-fhot: Major 
 Bland received a flight Wound in the Arm j his 
 Horfe was fhot thro' the Neck : He is a brave and 
 generous Officer, which all the Prifoners that were 
 under his Command muft gratefully acknowledge. 
 Lord Forrefier, Lieutenant- Colonel of Prefionh Re- 
 giment, had two or three Wounds : An Ofticer 
 worthy the Command of good Soldiers. Major 
 Prejlon was fhot thro* the Body a little above the 
 Breaft, and taken Prifoner by Mr. W-oga/i : He 
 
i ] 
 
 Was a Man of great Gallantry and compos*d Cod- 
 rage, as was vifible by his expofmg himfeJf in thd 
 Danger and in the Manner he did, for he was fpent 
 in a long languifhing Confumption, even to a Ske- 
 leton, and told us (the Rebels) That the Wound 
 he received had only fhortened his Days two or 
 three Months, which feeing it was in the Service of 
 his King and Country, he faid he far preferr'd it 
 to the Jingring Death he expe<5led. He died iri 
 our Hands. Captain Oglehy received a Wound in 
 his Side ; the Bullet was lodg*d a good way in his 
 Body, wrapt in part of his Scarf: He is a fine Gen- 
 tleman, of a good Family in Scotland^ and Son to 
 the Lord Oglehy. He recover*d of his Wound. 
 Major Lawfon was likewife wounded and Brigadier 
 Dormer had a Contufion in his Knee. There were 
 three other Captains wounded, two Lieutenants, 
 one Cornet and four Enfigns. Killed, three Cap- 
 tains, and one Enfign. There were a great many" 
 private Men of his Majefty's Forces kill'd how 
 many it is hard to determine, but the Number has 
 been efteem'd above 200, tho* the publick Lifts fay 
 not fo many. 
 
 Of the Rebels, there were 17 kill'd, and 25 
 wounded, and no more, for they were every where 
 under Cover. I fhall take notice of one that was 
 killed, tho' a Perfon of no Note, yet he is not to 
 be forgotten, feeing the Bravery of mean Perfons 
 ought not to buried : He was a lame Man, and 
 had the care of the Gunpowder, whith he carried 
 under him on a Horfe from one Poft to another. 
 He was told that they wanted Powder at Mackin- 
 toJh\ Barrier but if he went, they told him he 
 would certainly be (hot. He anfwer'd, I know I 
 cannot avoid that, if I go but fince they want, if 
 I cannot carry it quite up to them, I'll carry it as 
 far as I can ; and fo fet forwards, and both he and 
 his Horfe were Ihot dead. 
 
 There 
 
[ IG3 ] 
 
 There were taken at Prejion feven Lords, befides 
 1490 other, including the leveral Gentlemen, Of- 
 ficers, and private Men, and two Clergymen. 
 There was a Popifh Prieft, called .Littleton, among 
 them : But having a great deal of the Jefuit, he 
 contriv'd a moft excellent Difguife ; for he put on 
 a Blue Apron, went behind an Apothecary's Coun- 
 ter, and paffed for an Affiftant or Journeyman to 
 the Apothecary, and fo took an Opportunity of 
 getting off. He took care of his own Tabernacle, 
 but left his Wafer Gods to be ridicul'd by the 
 Soldiers. 
 
 The Rebels being thus made Prifoners, I fliall 
 add. an Account how they were difpos'd of after- 
 wards, which take as follows. 
 
 For the better preventing Efcapes, they were 
 .order'd to feveral Places of Confinement: The Lords 
 were fecured iia the moft commodious Houfes or 
 Inns. The Scotch Officers and Gentry, divided 
 into three Parties, were fet under a Guard at the 
 Sign of the Mitre, the White-Bull, and the mnd- 
 Mill. The Highlanders and common Men were 
 put into the Church, where they continued about 
 a Month, the Town's People being obliged to find 
 them Water and Bread whilft they took what care 
 of themfelves they could, unripping all the Linings 
 from the Seats or Pews, and making thereof Breeches 
 and Hofe to defend themfelves from the Extremity of 
 the Weather. Several of them were fent under Guard 
 to Wigan the* 23d of November^ and afterwards fent 
 to Chejier, whilft others were fent to Lancafier-C?i{\.\fiy 
 till their Trials came on; when fome were found 
 guilty, and executed, others tranfported by their 
 own Choice, others acquitted, others repriev'd j 
 and thofe untried, or repriev'd, continued as Ob- 
 jeds of His Majefly's moft gracious Clemency. A 
 great many of the Northumberland and Lancajhire 
 Gentlemen were confin'd in Mr. Winglebf% Houfe 
 
 H 'till 
 
[ I04 ] 
 
 'till Sunday the 21ft, when a great part of the chief 
 Officers, and all the Lords were fent to Wigan, 
 The Lancajhire Gentlemen followed them on Tuef- 
 day the 23d, and condnued there dll Thurfday 
 when all of them being divided into four Parties, 
 were fent under the Guard of feveral Detachments 
 to Warrington. It will pleafe the Reader, I hope, 
 to hear what happened at Wigan : Whilft we were 
 there, we were alIow*d to go with Centinels to vi- 
 fit our Friends ; fo Brigadier Mackintojh took an Op- 
 portunity to pay his Refpeds to the Lords at their 
 Quarters. Entring the Room where they and fe- 
 veral Gentlemen were got together, the Lord Wid- 
 drington called to him, and defired him to fit by 
 him. Which done, my Lord feeing a Gendeman 
 ready to leave the Chamber, he faid, Coufin Tom, 
 fray ftay a little for I have a mind to ajk fome 
 ^eftions of the Brigadier. And thus begun : Briga- 
 dier^ the Reafon why I did not expofe my f elf as I ought 
 to have done, was owing to my Indifpojition, occafion^d 
 by the Gout : But pray, you that had been at the Head 
 of your Men, and had viewed the Bridge over Rible, 
 why did you not defend it^ being a Matter of no great 
 Difficulty to have maintained that important Pafs ? 
 The Brigadier replied, // was not maintainable, be- 
 caufe the River was for dalle at feveral Places. Lord 
 Widdrington afked him again. Why he did not make 
 bis Barricade at the extreme End of the Street leading 
 to the T own, which would have prevented the King's 
 Forces from taking Pojfefpion of thofe Houfes below his 
 Barrier, which was a great way up the Town ? To 
 this he anfwer*d, My Lord, at the extreme End of 
 the Town there were fo many Lanes and Avenues, 
 that to defend them would have required more Men 
 than I had. That Lord continued to demand of 
 him. Why he did not fally out himfelf with his Men ? 
 or why he would not obey Mr. Forfter, who would 
 have had the Horfe to have fallied out ? To this he gave 
 
 Anfwer, 
 
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 Anfwer, That if his Foot had /allied out, they mighf 
 by that means been parted from the Horfe, and fo left 
 naked to have been cut off : Befides, nothing more 
 frightens the Highlanders than Horfe and Cannon. As 
 for obeying Mr. Forfter, in letting the Horfe fally 
 out,^ he faid, If the Horfe had attempted any fuch 
 Thing, they would have gone through the Fire of his 
 Men ; for they were afraid the Horfe defign'd fuch a 
 Thing, and would have been able to have made a Re- 
 treat, and left them pent up in the Town. This 
 Difcourfe ending, they parted without Shew of 
 much Concern for the Lofs of each other's Com- 
 pany. The Lord Derwentwater took little or no 
 Notice of the Brigadier but turn*d to a Gentleman 
 in Company, and told him, l^ou fee what we have 
 brought ourfelves to, by giving Credit to our Neigh- 
 bour Tories, as Will. Fenwick, Tate, Green, and 
 Allgood. If you out-live Misfortune, and return to 
 live in the North, I defire you never to be feen to 
 converfe with fuch Rogues in Difguife, that promifed 
 to join us, and animated us to rife zvith them. The 
 Gentleman promifed that Lord to obey him. But 
 that Lord anfwer'd. Ah I I know you to be of an 
 eafy Temper. Having continued at Warrington all 
 Night, they march*d forwards for London by eafy 
 Marches j nothing material happening, only a De- 
 tachment of Stanhope's Dragoons, were ordered to 
 return ; and whilfl we were marching over a Heath, 
 one of the Highlanders told the Country People 
 that came to view us. Where are all your High- 
 Church Tories ? If they would not fight with us, zvhy 
 do they not coine and refcue us ? Which indifcreet 
 Words made the commanding OfBcer make him 
 difmount, and walk on Foot pinion'd. Thefe De- 
 tachments of Horfe and Dragoons that guarded us, 
 were relieved by a Squadron of Lumlefs Horfe, 
 under the Command of Brigadier P anion, who look'd 
 more nearly to us- than we had been formerly. At 
 H 2 Daveniry 
 
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 Daventry he Tingled Mr. Forfter and me from among 
 the reft, and confined us in the Guard-Room a 
 Nieht (which was continued in all our Quarters till 
 we came to Newgate) under a fufficient Watch, al- 
 lowing none to fpeak with us. 
 
 Here I muft relate how Mr. Forfter catch d Cold, 
 by lying on the Ground in a Corner very damp, 
 which indifpofed him very much all along, fo tnat 
 at St Jlban's he was not able to ride, but was al- 
 lowed a Coach. Upon this it was reported he had 
 taken Poifon. Which was very falfe; for I-ieutenant 
 Bi/hop, who had the Care of us, adviled him to 
 take a Yitik Diafcordium, which brought upon him 
 a ereat Fit of Vomiting. From Daventry to Lon- 
 don, he and I were diftinguilh'd from the reft by 
 our Halters being led by two Troopers, with Hal- 
 ters upon our Horfes Heads s which gave the Peo- 
 ple, as we paffed along, an Opportunity to com- 
 pliment us with Encomiums upon a Warming-pan. 
 At Barnet we were all pinion'd, more for Diftindtion 
 than any Pain that attended : And HJghgate^^ 
 were met with a ftrong Detachment of Horle-Gre- 
 nadiers and Foot-Guards, each Man^ having his 
 Horfe led by one of the Foot, Setting forward 
 from Highgate, we were met by fuch ' Numbers ot 
 People, that it is fcarce conceivable to exprefs, who 
 with Long Live Kin^ GEORGEl and down 
 with the Pretender! uOiered us throughout to our 
 feveral Apartments. 1 ftiall add a very pleafant 
 Story : A Quaker fix'd his Eyes upon me, and 
 diftinguiOiing what I was, faid, Friend, Verily thou 
 haft heen the trumpeter of Rebellion to thefe Men-, 
 thou muft anfwerfor the?n. Upon this, my Grenadier 
 gave him a Pulh with the But-end of his Mufket, 
 fo that the Spirit fell into the Ditch. Whilft fprawl- 
 ino- on his Back, he told the Soldier, Thou haft not 
 uFd me civilly i I doubt thou art not a real Friend to 
 Kin?- GEORGE. Mr. Forfter thought ftiU to 
 ^ - have 
 
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 have been releafed by a Tory Mob, and told me, 
 that he had Affurances thereof from a Gentleman at 
 Highgate. But thofe Bravaders will not hazard 
 themfelves, tho* they fpeak great Things. He was 
 likewife troubled that he (liould be fent to Newgate^ 
 being unexpelled the Houfe of Co?nmons- ; and like- 
 wife mortify'd, when he underftood that Gordon^ 
 Carr^ and Dorrel were executed a Day before, and 
 their Quarters then in a Box juft by, in order to 
 be fet upon the Gates j which fpoiled his Stomach, 
 fo that he could not eat with his then unhappy 
 Companion. 
 
 The Names of the Lords, Piifoners, are well 
 known, viz. 
 
 James Radcliffe Earl of Berwentwater, Beheaded 
 on T rjuer-Hill-, February 24. 1 7 1 5- 1 6. 
 
 William fViddrington Lord Widdrington. 
 ■ William Maxwell Earl of Nithfdale^ made his 
 Efcape outof the Tb'K;(?r, Feb. 23. 17 15-16. drefs'd 
 in a Woman's Cloak and Hood, which fmce are 
 called Nithfdales. 
 
 [Thefe three were Papifts.] 
 • George Seaton Earl of Wintoun^ made his Efcape 
 alfo out of the Toie^^r, Aug. 4. 1716. 
 
 William GordonN\ko\x\\. Kenmure^ Beheaded with 
 Lord Derwentwaler. 
 
 William Nairn Lord Nairn. 
 
 I fliall here add a Lift of the reft in general; of 
 thofe who were taken thvit were of any Note which 
 I Ihould not do, it being fo often publiftied, but 
 that it ftiall be done in a different manner, adding 
 a fliort Account of fo many as came within my 
 I Knowledge, as to their Circumftances, the Pofta 
 they bore, and what Kingdom, County, and-Re^ 
 ligion they were of, and the Fate that followed 
 them. 
 
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 Mr. 'J'ho?}ias Forjierjun. of Etherjton in the County 
 of Northumberland^ Proteftant, Member of Parlia- 
 ment for the faid County, was made General : 
 Efcaped out of Newgate. I fhall here infert : On 
 Saturday, April j. iyi6, a Bill of Indictment was 
 found againft him ; he was to have been arraign'd, 
 in order to his Trial, on the 14th of April , but on 
 Wednefday Morning all were furpriz'd, to hear that 
 he had found Means to make his Efcape the Night 
 before. Upon Notice of this, a Proclamation was. 
 publifli*d for apprehending 'Thomas Forfier Efq-, with 
 a Defcription of his Perfon, as one of a Middle- 
 Stature, inclining to , be Fat, well-fliap'd, except 
 that he ftoops in the Shoulders, fair CompIexion*d, 
 his Mouth wide, his Nofe pretty large, his Eyes 
 Grey, fpeaks the Northern Dialed, with a Reward 
 of a Thoufand Pounds to any who fhould appre- 
 hend him. The Grand-Jury of Middlefesc having 
 enquir'd into the manner of his Efcape, thought fit 
 to prefent Mr. Pit Is Keeper of Newgate, for a very 
 high Negled and Mifdemeanor in his Office, who 
 was afterwards committed to the Cuftody of a Mef- 
 fenger, and then brought to his Trial, where he 
 made the manner of Mr. Forfterh Efcape appear : 
 (He was acquitted.) Which is as follows. Mr. 
 Forfter^ for fome time after his Commitment to 
 Newgate, was confin'd in a Chamber in the Prefs- 
 yard, but was removed into a flrong Room in Mr. 
 Pitts'?, Houfe, as likewife Mr. Anderton to another. 
 Mr. Forfier hearing fome-body upon the Stairs one 
 Night, opened his Door, (being allowed the Li- 
 berty to walk in the Prefs-yard) which was Mr, 
 Anderton, whom he invited to come and take a 
 Glafs, *till fuch time as they were locked up. Mr. 
 Pitts entred the Room, and found them over a 
 Flafk of Wine ; when it was fomething above half 
 gone, Mr. Forfier went up (as Mr. Pitts thought) 
 tq the NeceiTary-houfe ; upon which his Heart mif- 
 
 gave 
 
[ ] 
 
 gave him, and therefore Mr. Pitts went up after 
 Mr. Forfter ; but, to his great Surprize, found he 
 was not there, and going down, he found the fall 
 of the Latch deadned by a piece of Lift, and a 
 Peg in the Kitchen-door, by which his Servant was 
 confined for Mr. Forfter*^ Man being below Stairs, 
 afked for fome Small-beer. Whilft the Servant was 
 drawing him fome, he fix'd the Peg, and fecured 
 him. Mr. For/ler left his Night- Gown upon the 
 Steps. Mr. Pitts called out for his Man, but he 
 could not get out ; but finding the Peg, he pulled 
 it out. Upon which he called aloud, / am undone ! 
 Forfter is gone ! then calling for the Key, there was 
 another, a falfe one, in the other fide of the Door, 
 and the Door double-lock*d. Thus Mr. Forflery 
 and his Man 'Thomas Lee^ found Means to efcape, 
 leaving their Keeper a Prifoner. 
 
 Mr. Edward Howard Brother to the Duke of 
 Norfolk, try*d and acquitted ; a Papift. 
 
 Mr. Charles Radcliffe Brother to the late Earl of 
 Derwentwater, try'd and found Guilty, and after- 
 wards efcaped out of Newgate, December 1 1 . 1 7 1 6. 
 He lay under Condemnation. 
 
 Charles Widdrington Efq-, Brother to the Lord 
 Widdrington of Northumberland, Papift, pleaded 
 Guilty. Since removed into the Cuftody of a Mef- 
 fenger, in order for a Parjdon. 
 
 Per. Widdrington Efq-, third Brother to this Lord, 
 and Aid de Camp to General Forfter, Papift : Re- 
 moved out of Newgate into the Cuftody of a Mef- 
 fenger, in order for a Pardon. 
 
 Walter Tancred Brother to Sir Thomas Tancred of 
 Torkjhire, Papift, pleaded Guilty. He was Com- 
 panion to the Lord Widdrington in ail his Country 
 Diverfions. 
 
 John Thornton of Neiherwitton in Northumber- 
 land ; has a good Eftate there, pleaded Guilty 5 
 a Papift. 
 
 H 4 John 
 
[ no] 
 
 John Clavering, a Papift, of Norlhumherland. jthh 
 Gentleman, by the Intereft of my Lord Chan- 
 cellor's Lady who is his Kinfy/oman, had a Noli 
 ^rofequi. 
 
 John Clavering Brother to IVilmm Chvering^ both 
 Papiils, in 'Northumberland, 
 
 Nicholas V/ogan Captain, an Irijhman^ who for 
 l;iis generous Ufage to Major Pr?fion whom he made 
 a Priibner, is in a fair way of being pardon'd, be- 
 ing ROW removed from Newgate into the Cullody 
 of a MefTenger : He ftood his Trial, and was 
 brought in Guilty of High-Treafon. He is a Papift. 
 
 Charles Wogan an Irijhman^ behav'd very well aC 
 Frefton ; Mr. Forjler called him his Aid de Camp : 
 He made his Efcape out of Newgate. He was a 
 Papift. 
 
 John Talbot of Cartington in Northumberland, a 
 brave young Gentleman ; his Father made himfclf 
 famous for his Courage at the Siege of Buda, but 
 was killed : This Gentleman made His Efcape from 
 Chefter. 
 
 Robert 'Talbot an Irijhman and Papift, formerly 
 an Officer in the French Service he was accounted 
 a very good Soldier : He was found Guilty of 
 High-Treafon. 
 
 Roger Salkeld of Cumberland, a Papift, fecond 
 Son to Sir Richard Salkeld of IVhitehall in the faid 
 County : He made his Efcape from Chefier. 
 
 George Collingwood of Northumberland, a Papift, 
 of a valuable Eftate : He was ordered for London^ 
 but was feiz'd with the Gout at JVigan, and from 
 thence was carried to Liverpool, and there found 
 Guilty, and afterwards Executed there the 25th of 
 February. He was a very pious Gentleman, and 
 well beloved In his Country. 
 
 John Hall: This Gentleman has been very un- 
 lucky the whole time of his Life ; he was bprn to 
 a handfome Eftate in Norih-Tine^ but his Indifcre- 
 
 tion 
 
[Ill] 
 
 tion'and .Forwardnefs reduced it to a low Ebb. 
 
 He married a Gentlewoman of Newcaftle, againft 
 the Confent of her Father Alderman Hutchinfon. 
 His Misfortunes, or unfettled Humour, made him 
 lliift from his own Seat to feveral other Places, as 
 Hexam and the Borders of Scotland, where he farmed 
 an Eftate, and cultivated the fame with a -great deal 
 of good Management being flcill'd In Hufbandry, 
 he had reap'd a very good Crop of all manner of 
 Grain from this Farm, and had them well gathered 
 together into Barns and Stack-yards ; but an unex- 
 peded Fire broke out, of which no Account can be 
 given how, in the middle of the Night, and with 
 Violence not to be conquer'd, confumed the Houfe 
 he lived in, all the Stables and Cow-houfes, Barns, 
 and Stacks of Corn, with the Oxen, Cows and 
 Horfes, himfelf and Family narrowly efcaping. He 
 return'd fome time after to his own Eftate, whither 
 hard Fortune had purlued him ; for having the 
 Profped of a plentiful Increafe of Corn which he 
 had got cut down, and near ready to get together, 
 in the Night there fell fuch a Flood of Rain as 
 carried all his Crop along with the over-flowing 
 Stream. Thefe two Misfortunes were look'd upon 
 ,as Judgments upon him, for being concerned , if not 
 accefifory, to the Death of two Gentlemen, which, 
 was thus : At Newcajlle upon .lyne there happened 
 a Quarrel betwixt Mr. Septimus Forfier Member of 
 Parliament for the County of Northumberland, and 
 one Mr. Fenwick : Mr. Hall was made privy to 
 the Quarrel, and acquainted with their Refolution 
 to fight ; which he might have prevented : But 
 Mr. Fenwick efpying Mr. Forfler'm the Street, with- 
 out being hinder'd by Mr. Hall, went with hafte to 
 the other, and both drawing their Swords, Mr. 
 Forfter, who was generally efteem'd, was run through 
 the Body, and inftandy died: The other was appre- 
 hended, and prefendy brought to his Trial, the 
 
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 Judges being then in Town, found guilty of Wilful 
 Murder, and executed where he committed the 
 Fad. Mr. Hall has been blamed for this by a great 
 many People : If he was any way accefTory, it 
 feems the two mentioned ftrange Fates that attended 
 thefe worthy Gentlemens Deaths, fliewed a purfuing 
 Judgment. When. Mr. Fenwkk was try'd, he ap- 
 pear*d as an Evidence for him ; but it was little 
 regarded by the Jury, and he met with a fevere Re- 
 primand from the Judge. By what Intereft, fome 
 Years after this, he came to be in the Commiffion 
 of the Peace, and an Officer of the Train'd-bands, 
 I fhall not hint ; but, to fhew the Indifcretion of 
 the Man, I muft inform you, that when he was fit- 
 ing upon the Bench at the Quarter- Seflions held for 
 the County at Jlnwick, all on a fudden he left hia 
 Brethren the Juftices in fuch Precipitation, that he 
 left his Hat, but got it again, and with hafte went 
 to the Rebels, defiring Mr. Forjler to go and feize 
 on the Juftices, and the County Clerk and his Books j 
 which was refufed. He was never much efteemed 
 by the commanding Rebels, being known to be of a 
 lierce and paflionate Temper, which got him the 
 Name of Mad Jack Hall of Qiterbourn. Thus you 
 iee that Fate never left him till Ihe purfued him to 
 his untimely Death, where he denied his Faith, and 
 made a ftrange Exit. He has left Children born to 
 him by his virtuous good Wife of very good Pa* 
 rentage, and no fmall Fortune. 
 ' John Hunter a Farmer at Callylee in 'Northumher-^ 
 land^ reputed very rich ; he made his Efcape, 
 Edward Ord. 
 
 William Pay-Mafter General and Quarter^ 
 
 Mafter General, a Torkjhire Man, fecond Son to a 
 Gentleman of that County, of a plentiful Eftate. He 
 has had all the Advantages of a generous Education, 
 which he has improved by his good and agreeable 
 Converfation and Learning; for he made feveral 
 
 Copies 
 
C"3] 
 
 Copies of Verfes after he was a Prifoner, which 
 gain'cl Applaufe from good Judges of Poetry : 
 They fhew the Man, tho* Old, and under Sen- 
 tence of Death, not to defpond and it is hoped 
 he will receive his Majefty's Pardon. He is a 
 Papift. 
 
 William Shaftoe of Bavington^ formerly a Juftice 
 of Peace for the County of Northumberland ; has ^ 
 plentiful Eftate : There he was brought in to the 
 Rebellion through the Inftigation of his Lady, and 
 Mr. John Shaftoe who was lliot at Prejion. He 
 was once a Papift, but returned to the Church of 
 England. He is a Gentleman of an eafy Temper, 
 and fo too eafily prevail*d with to join in the Re- 
 bellion. I fhall add a Story of him, when in New^ 
 ^ate with Mr. John Hall, who was afterward Exe- 
 cuted, which has fomething diverting in it. He 
 fays ferioufly to Mr. Hall, Coufin Jack, I am thinks 
 ing on what is told us, ^hat God will vifit the Sins 
 of the Fathers unto the third and fourth Genera- 
 tion. I am of Opinion that it is fo with us ; for your 
 Grandfather and mine got moft of their Eftates as Se- 
 quejirators, and now we muft lofe them again for be-' 
 ing Rebels. 
 
 John Shaftoe his Son, a Papift : He was but late- 
 ly come from beyond Sea. He is a moft violent 
 Bigot to his Faith ; was formerly Page to the Duke 
 of Wolfefnbottle. 
 
 Edward Shaftoe, an old Grey-headed Gentleman, 
 Father to Jehn Shaftoe Ihot at Pre/ion as an Half-pay 
 Officer. This old Man became an Evidence for 
 the King at Liverpool and London. 
 
 John Shaftoe Q?i-\^x.dLm, fhot, as mentioned before: 
 He was made early acquainted with the Rebellion, 
 and would have faved his Life by Impeaching o- 
 thers, but was too far from the Court to have his 
 Mind known : This would have been of good Ser- 
 vice, He died very Penitent. 
 
 Edward 
 
[ ] 
 
 Edward Swinhourn and Jafnes Swinhourn, both of 
 them Papifts, and Brothers to Sir William of Caph- 
 eaton ; both found Guilty. The former a very 
 handfome Gentleman, and of good Parts ; dy'd in 
 Newgate. The other, thro' long Confinement, or, 
 as fome alledge, an hereditary Diftemper, which 
 fome af that Family have been fubjed to, became 
 Penfive and Melancholy. 
 
 George Gihfon of Stonccroft^ Northumberland^ a 
 Papift : A Gendeman well belov'd in his Country. 
 Dy'd in Newgate. 
 
 Edward Byras of Northu?nherland, belonged to 
 Lord fViddringion^s Troop, made his Efcap on the 
 Road to London. 
 
 Richard Stokoe^ formerly in the Scots Grey Regi- 
 ment of Dragoons, was made a Quarter-Mailer in 
 the Earl of Derwentwaterh Troop. He lived in 
 Northumberland \ a Proteftant. He was taken out 
 of the Fleets and put into the Cuftody of one of 
 the King's MelTengers, in order' to become an Evi- 
 dence, but made his Efcape. 
 
 Richard Chorley of Chorley in Lancajhire, a Pa- 
 pift ': A Gentleman of fingular Piety and Parts, 
 was order'd for London \ but falling fick at Wigan^ 
 was left behind, and was try'd at Liverpool^ foun4 
 Guilty, and Executed at Prejion^ February 9. 
 1715-16. 
 
 Charles Chorley Son to Richard Chorley, was a 
 young Gendeman of very good Parts, was try'd ac 
 Liverpool, found Guilty ; but died in Goal. 
 
 Ralph Standijh of Standijh, a Papill in Lancajhire, 
 a Gentleman of very good Repute ; having a 
 plentiful Fortune, marry'd into the Duke of Nor- 
 folk\ Family : He was found Guilty of High-Trea- 
 fon at Weftminjler : fince removed into the Cuftody 
 of a MelTenger, in order for a Pardon. 
 ■ Sir Francis Anderton of Loftock, a Papift of Lan- 
 sajhire : He has an Eftate of 2000/. pr Jnmm. 
 
[ "5 ] 
 
 He was Indlfted as a Baronet ; but he pleaded that 
 falfe, becaiife his Elder Brother, a Popifli Prieft be- 
 yond Sea, was alive. He was afterwards found 
 Guilty, and received Sentence. This Gentleman is 
 of pleafant and diverting Converfation : He is re- 
 ported to fay. He loft a good Eftate for being 
 with the Rebels but One Day. Taken out of 
 Newgate into the Cuftody of a MefTenger, in order 
 for a Pardon. 
 
 Dr. Walker, alias Alcock^ Phyfician, fkill'd in that 
 
 ■ Pradice. A little before the Rebellion broke out, 
 
 ■ on a Rejoicing-Day, he made an Entertainment for 
 his Friends at his Chamber in Alnwick-, but be- 
 coming fomewhat overtaken with Liquor, inftead 
 of Loyal Words, he fpoke Tome that amounted to 
 Treafon. He was afterwards call'd to anfwer for 
 his Expreffions, but he put in Bail for his Appear- 
 ance tho' he did not think' convenient to ftay dll 
 the Affizes, but abfcondcd, and joined the Rebels. 
 Being of a frank and comical Difpofitioni he told 
 his Rebel Friends, 'That his Bail fioidd not fuffer ; 
 for he would write' to the Judge^ that he was now at 
 Hexam, ready to pay his Fine, He made his Efcape 
 from Prefion. . ' 
 
 Richard ^awrdey Qi ^ownley, a Papift in Lanca- 
 Jhire he marry'd Lord JViddrington's Sifter. This 
 Gentleman's Servants were found Guilty of High- 
 Treafon, for being in the Rebellion with their Ma- 
 fter, and fome of them afterwards Executed in 
 Lancajhire-, but he was Acquitted by the ji4ry at 
 xht Marjhalfea. After which, endeavouring\to go 
 beyond Sea, he was retaken into Cuftody, but fooii 
 difcharged. 
 
 John Dalton a Papift of LaneaJIoire, of a good 
 Eftate, v^as try'd at the Mar/halfea,- and found 
 Guilty. Since removed into the Cuftody of a Mef- 
 fenger, in order for his Pardon. 
 
 John Leyhoiirn a Papift, Lancajloire. 
 
 Gahrid 
 
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 Cahnel Hejket Father, and C«//&^^r/ Hdjket Son4 
 both Papifts, Lancajhire. 
 
 Thomas Walton of ^«J<fr, Lancajhire^ a Pa- 
 
 Edward nidejly oi the i^?^^^, a Papift, Z^;?r^. 
 jhire -^z^ acquitted by the Jury at the Marfhalfea, 
 tho It was proved he had a Troop, and entred 
 Rrefton at the Head of it with his Sword drawn 
 But his Sword had a Silver Handle. 
 
 Thomas Errington of Beaufront, a Papift, Nor- 
 thumberland: At his Trial pleaded Guilty ; and is 
 fmce removed from Newgate into the Cuftody of a 
 Meff^nger, in order for an Enlargement. 
 
 Philip Hudfon of Sandow, a Papift, Northum- 
 berland ; by Marriage, Uncle to the Lord JVid^ 
 drington. 
 
 James Talbot an Irijh Papift, made his Efcapc 
 from Newgate ; but a Reward of 500 Pounds be- 
 ing fet forth, he was retaken in London, 
 
 Alexander Deafines. 
 ^ Lyonel Walden of Wejlminfler^ an Oxford Student 5 
 ;oined in the Rebellion with his Uncle Mr. Robert 
 Cotton. 
 
 John Majierfon. 
 
 George Sanderfon of Highlee, a Vd^^i^ Northum- 
 verland, 
 
 George Budden an Upholfterer of London, Prote- 
 ftant ; made his Efcape from Newgate. 
 
 William Charleton^ Son to Mr. Charleton of the 
 Bower in Northumberland^ lately pardon'd by Qyeen 
 Anne for murdering Mr. Widdrington. His Bro- 
 ther Edward Charleton is a Dodor of Phyfick, and 
 lately turned Papift, having marry'd one of that 
 Church. 
 
 Robert Cotton, a Gentleman of very good For- 
 tune : He is a Nonjuror. This Gentleman is of 
 good Repute for his Life and Converfation ; is 
 agreeable to all that have the Advantage of being 
 
 acquainted 
 
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 acquainted with him ; he is very much given to 
 Hofpitality •, and has a tender Regard to every un- 
 fortunate Perfon's Condition ; and, like a good Chri- 
 ilian, thinlcs his plentiful Fortune put only into his 
 Hands, that he might be ferviceable in his Gene- 
 Tation. 
 
 John Cotton his Son, both Proteftants. He was 
 liberally educated under the watchful Care of an af- 
 fectionate Parent, who gave him all the Advantages 
 to accomplilh a Gentleman which he improved 
 fo, as to be capable of living either at Court as a 
 Gentleman , with the Learned as a Scholar , or 
 with his Country Neighbours as one of them ; to 
 give him his due, he is of a Soul that is not lofty 
 and afpiring, and yet not bafe or mean, and, 
 which ftill adds, gives all that due Obedience and 
 profound Refped that is juftly owing to a kind 
 father. 
 
 Richard Gafcoine an Irijh Papift, executed at 33?- 
 ' hurn^ May 25. This Gentleman was born in Ireland^ 
 and defcended from a good Family, that had been 
 very ferviceable to the Crown in Oliver's Rebellion. 
 He was bred a Roman j according to his Principles 
 was zealous for the Chevalier^ and a declared Ene- 
 my to the Revolution, His Grandfather was kill'd in 
 the Service of King Charles I. and his Father in the 
 Service of the unfortunate James II. at the 
 
 Siege of Limerick. He was Heir to an Eftate of 
 about 200 /. per Ann, which he converted into Mo- 
 ney. He came to London^ and being a tall handfome 
 Man , of an engaging Converfation , foon got Ac- 
 quaintance in Town, and with them indulged him- 
 felf in all youthful Follies and Vices, which reduced 
 . him to mean Circumftances ; but the Cards and 
 Dice, his great Companions, in a little time made 
 him Reparation, for he became a great Proficient 
 that way ; fo being relnftated in Fortuned Favour, 
 which, together with his good natural Parts, civil 
 
 Behaviour, 
 
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 Behaviour, and political Principles, foon brought 
 him acquainted with the befl Quality among the 
 Tories J by whom he was intruded with the principal 
 Management at the Bath ; from whence he fled as 
 foon as he heard that his Majefty's Meflfengers were 
 in queft of him, and fo fteer'd towards the North 
 to find out the Rebels, whom he joined at Preflon, 
 and with thofe of Note was brought up to London^ 
 and confin'd to Newgate ; whilft there he gave the 
 greateft Demonftration of a true Penitent, and gave 
 himfelf folely up to his Devotion, and dy'd with 
 the greateft Unconcernednefs of any of the unfortu- 
 nate Rebels. 
 
 John. Hunter of Northumherland ^ executed at Li- 
 verpool, a Proteftant ; he was fliot thro' the Leg at 
 Prejlon. 
 
 William Hardwick. 
 
 Richard Butler oi Racliffe , Lane a/hire, a Papift,, 
 found guilty, and dy'd in Newgate. 
 
 Robert Patten, one of the Chaplains, Minifter of 
 Allandale, Northumberland ; he fav'd his Life by be- 
 ing an Evidence for the King. 
 
 IVilliam Crajier o^ Cr after, Northumberland, came 
 with Mr. Forfter, and two others., into the Rebel- 
 lion •, thefe being all that Gentleman broiight into 
 the fame Fate with himfelf. 
 
 'Tho7nas Lijle of Northutnberland; Proteftant, very 
 young. , V jy, 
 
 Thomas Forfter, a Relation of Mr. Forfter'''%-i:.\^ 
 was try'd and found guilty at Liverppol. .v: ., 
 
 IVilliam Raine of Newcaftle upon, Tyne^ a^Qiiar- 
 ter-Mafter. : 
 
 Thomas Riddle, Son to Mr. Middle of Swinboum- 
 Caft.le, Northumberland, a Papift, pleaded guilty'; 
 he was, a little before the Rebellion, come from the 
 College beyond Sea. 
 
 Henry Widdrington, Quarter-Mafter. ■ - : , • 
 
 Richard Ord, with two Brothers, of JVeetwrnd; 
 one dy'd. William 
 
C ^19 3 
 
 tVilliam Sanderfon of Highke ^ Norihu??Werland, a 
 Papift, made his Efcape from Chejler. This Gen- 
 tleman has many valuable and endearing Accom- 
 pjifliments. 
 
 John 'ttowle, an Irijh Papift, 
 
 Edward Mackay. 
 
 Henry Oxhurgh, an IriJh Papift, and >call'd Colo- 
 nel, executed at T^yhurn. He was born in Ireland 
 to a plentiful Eftate, had ferved in the late King 
 Jmnes*^ Army for a confiderable Time, was of a 
 good, mild, and merciful Difpofition, very thought- 
 ful, and a mighty zealous Man in his Religion, 
 quiet in his Converfation, and more of the Priefb in 
 his Appearance than the Soldier : He dy'd very pe- 
 nitent. There came a Letter from Ireland to one in 
 the Secretary's Office, to acquaint General Stanhope, 
 Secretary of State, with this Gentleman's Charader, 
 and Inclinations to the Pretender j which made him 
 appear as irreconcilable to the Proteftant IntereU. 
 
 William Dobfon. 
 
 John Beaumont, a Papift, and Lieutenant, made 
 his Efcape in Lanca/hire. 
 
 John Crofts of fVooler, Northumberland, Adjutant. 
 
 William Calderwood , Quarter- Mafter- General to 
 the Scots, formerly an Officer in Douglafs's Regi- 
 ment on the Dutch Eftablifhment, being in Scot- 
 land when the Rebellion began, was prevail'd with 
 by Lord Kenmure to join the Rebels. 
 
 Englijh Followers, or Servants. 
 
 Robert Brufe, Corn. Stewart ^ James Robfon, 
 
 Vol. Errington, Luke Blacket, William Hardy '., 
 
 Edward Tinklar, 'Thomas Dixon, James Mills, 
 
 John Atkinfon, Oliver Hamilton, John Brady, 
 
 John Militfon, William Anjley, Robert Brown, 
 
 John Patrick, Robert Stubs, JamesWilkinfon, 
 
 I J. Bywater, 
 
J. Byivater^ 
 Jonnage Aron^ 
 Henry Majfon, 
 William Smell, 
 John Holt, 
 Andr. 1'hompfon, 
 James Shaw, 
 John Buftham, 
 Nicholas Doyle, 
 Thomas Holling, 
 Edward Bullock, 
 John Omfield, 
 Thomas Moore^ 
 John -Rowland, 
 Nicholas Wilfon, 
 John Thornton, 
 William Young, 
 Henry Wilfon, 
 Cuthbert Hajket, 
 Thomas Bell, 
 yir.HilyardGtn- 
 tleman to Lord 
 Widdrington, 
 
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 Henry Rowley, 
 Ralph Lorrain, 
 Garret N angle, 
 William Purdy, 
 Thomas Lee, 
 Mr. Wejby, Gen- 
 tleman to the 
 Earl of Der- 
 wentwater, 
 John Todd, 
 William Stewart, 
 Roger Balj'on, , 
 John Wilfon, 
 Thomas Smith, 
 John Thornton, 
 Wil. Dix/on, 
 Leonard Ord, 
 William Scot, 
 Thomas Fareburn, 
 James Richmond, 
 James Afington, 
 Albert Hackfel, 
 John TaJker, 
 
 John Clarke, 
 Mich. Moffes, 
 Wil. Farnworthj 
 John Farnworth, 
 William Wilfon, 
 William Tajh^ 
 Henry Gardiner^ 
 John Steele, 
 Ra. Todd, 
 Henry Toddy 
 John Todd, 
 Charles May, 
 Henry AJhley, 
 William Ratcliff, 
 William Wilfon, 
 Tim. Flanakan, 
 Charles Bartes, 
 Ro. Finkle, 
 James Wilfon, 
 William Todd, 
 William Read, 
 R. Wilfon. 
 
 A L I S T of the Scots Officers. 
 
 M'intoJb*s Battalion confifted of thirteen Companies, 
 fifty Men in each Company before the Defertion 
 at Langhohn. 
 
 Fergufon Lieutenant- Laughlan M'intopj fenior. 
 
 Colonel of Invercall , Capt. 
 
 pardon'd by the Prince. Farquhar M'gilroy Capt. 
 JohnMHntoJhM^]or,'Qxo- Angus Mbean Capt. 
 
 ther to the Brigadier, Robert Shaw Capt. 
 
 efcap'd. Vuncomb Mintofh Capt. 
 
 William 
 
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 tVllUam MHntoJh Capt. 
 Angus MHntoJh Capt. 
 haughlan M''into/ibjunior^ 
 Capt. 
 
 Francis Farquharfon of 
 Wbithoufe^ acquitted. 
 
 Laughlan M-cledn Capt. 
 
 William M''gilroy Lieut. 
 
 John Farquharfon of Kirk- 
 toun^ acquitted. 
 
 John M'intojh Lieut. 
 
 Farquhar M'-gilroy Lieut. 
 
 John M'-hean Lieut. 
 
 Angus Shaw Lieut. 
 
 Benj. M'intoJJj Lieut. 
 
 James MHfitoJh Lieut. 
 
 William Maquin Lj/eUt* 
 John Mintojh Li<?ut. 
 Doncan MHntoJ^hieut, 
 John Abercromby Lieut, 
 . and Aid de Camp. 
 — Skeen Lieut, and 
 
 Aid de Camp. 
 Dauid Stuart Lieut. 
 Will. MHntoJh Lieut. 
 Jo. MHntoJh Aid de Cong. 
 Daniel Grant Adjutant. 
 Dav. M' quean Pay- Ma* 
 
 fter. 
 
 William Shaw Quarter- 
 Mafter. 
 
 Strathmore\ Regiment : A great Part of them werd 
 prevented from croffing the Forth by the King's 
 Ships : but thefe did ; 
 
 William Duglajs Capt. 
 William Miller Capt. 
 John Screnger Capt. 
 Ja?nes Balfewer Capt. 
 William Lyon Lieut. 
 Alexander Murray Lieut. 
 Alexander ^Orrack Lieut. 
 John Burnes Lieut. 
 
 Patrick Duglafs Enfign. 
 Hugh Ken Enfign. 
 Alex. Magiven Enfign. 
 Andrew Ramfey Enfign* 
 Henry Ogilvey Enfign. 
 Will. Henderfon Quarter- 
 Mafter. 
 
 Logic Drmmnond's Regiment : Better Part hereof 
 were prevented from crofling the Forth^ and fome 
 of them left in Leith. 
 
 David Drummond Capt. 
 John Carnagy Capt. 
 Alex. M'^grudder Capt. 
 Jajncs Drummond Lieut. 
 
 Alexander Drummond. 
 Archibald MHaughlan. 
 William Grudder, 
 
 I 2 
 
 Lord 
 
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 Lord Nakneh Regiment : Several were ftopt from 
 croffing the Forth, 
 
 Lord Nairne Colonel. 
 John Stuart Lieut. Col. 
 
 * — Blair Major. 
 
 Alex. Robert/on Capt. 
 James Stuart Capt. 
 James Rohertfon Capt. 
 
 John Stuart Capt. 
 Robert Stuart Capt. 
 Arch. Butler, the Lady's 
 
 Darling, tho' inangy in 
 
 the Rebellion. 
 
 M^r's Battalion : Several left on the other fide the 
 
 Forth, 
 
 Nathanael Forbes Major. 
 John James Capt. 
 Donald Fergtifon Capt. 
 John Gordon Capt. 
 
 John Cattanack Lieut. 
 Henry Lamfden Lieut. 
 Robert Gordon Lieut. 
 
 Lord Charles Murray'^ Regiment. 
 
 Lord Murray Colonel. 
 Matter of 'Nairn Lieute- 
 nant-Colonel. 
 James Stuart Major. 
 James Mineries Capt. 
 Alex. Mineries Lieut. 
 Adam Reid Lieut. 
 John Stuart, 
 John Ratfon. 
 Alexander Stuart, 
 
 Alex. Mineries Capt. 
 Bon. Rohertfon Capt. 
 John Rohertfon Capt. 
 Patrick Rohertfon Capt. 
 John M'kevan Lieut. 
 Dun. Campbell Lieut. 
 John Robfon, 
 James Raton, 
 John Stuart, 
 
 EnglijJo 
 
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 Engli[h Noblemen and Gentlemen \ 
 
 taken Prifoners — — . 75 
 Their Servants, or Followers, 8^ 
 Private Men in the Church — — 305 
 
 Total Englijh 463 
 
 ScoU Noblemen, Officers, and Gen- 7 
 
 tlemen, taken Prifoners y ' 
 Their Vaflals, ^c, ^ . • 862 
 
 Total Scots 1005 
 
 Re-taken — ^— — — ^ 21 
 In all 1489 
 
 A great many found Means to efcape. 
 
 I 3 THE 
 
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 THE 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REBELLION 
 
 IN 
 
 SCOTLAND. 
 
 PART IL 
 
 TH E Earl of Mar upon the Death of 
 Queen Anne, whofe Secretary of State 
 he was, as it is bgliev'd, had no ReM- 
 Hous Defigns then in his Head j nor, 
 could he have had his feifiOi Views aniwer*d, would he 
 perhaps ever have ernbark*d as he did as may feem 
 by a Letter he fent to His Majefty King George 
 with a tender of his Duty, and exprefling himfelf 
 in the moft paflionate Terms, as a Perfon full of 
 Loyalty and Affedlion to his Perfon and Govern- 
 ment, ready to fcrve his Intereli, and defend his 
 Sacceflion the Copy of which it is very neceflary 
 to put in the Front of what offers concerning himi 
 and is as follows : 
 
 I 4 SIR, 
 
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 SIR, 
 
 HAving the Happinefs to be your Majefty's 
 Subje<5t, and alfo the Honour of being one 
 of your Servants, as one of your Secretaries of 
 State, I beg leave to kifs your Majefty's Hand, 
 and congratulate your happy Acceffion to the 
 Throne ; which I would have done mylelf the 
 Honour of doing fooner, had I not hop'd -to 
 have had the Honour of doing it perfonal]y-e*er 
 now. 
 
 ' 1 am afraid I may have had the Misfortune of be- 
 ing mifreprefented toyour Majefty ; and my Reafon 
 for thinking fo, is, becaufe I was, 1 believe, the 
 only one of the late Queen's Servants, whom your 
 Minifters here did not vifit ; which I mentioned 
 to Mr. Harle)\ and the Earl of Clarendon^ when 
 -they went from hence to wait on your Majefty ; 
 and your Minifters carrying fo to me, was the 
 Occafion of my receiving fuch Orders as deprived 
 me of the Honour and Satisfadtion of waiting on 
 them, and being known to them. 
 
 * I fuppofe I had been mifreprefented to them by 
 fome here, upon Account of Party, or to ingra- 
 tiate themfelves by afperfmg others, as our Parties 
 here too often occafion ; but I hope your Majefty 
 will be fo juft as not to give Credit to fuch Mif- 
 reprefentations. 
 
 ' The Part I afted in the bringing about and 
 making of the Union, when the Succefllon to the 
 Crown was fettled for Scotland on your Majefty's 
 Family, where I had the honour to ferve as Se- 
 cretary of State for that Kingdom, doth, I hope, 
 put my Sincerity and Faithfulnefs to your Majefty 
 out of Difpute. 
 
 * My Fam ily hath had the honour, for a great Trad 
 of Years, to be faithful Servants to the Crown, 
 and have had the Care of the King's Children 
 
 ' (when 
 
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 * (when Kings of Scotland) intruded to them. A 
 ' Predeceflbr of mine was honour'd with the Care 
 
 * of your Majefty's Grandmother when young; 
 ' and fhe was pleafed afterwards to exprefs fome 
 ' Concern for our Family in Letters which I ftill 
 
 * have under her own Hand. 
 
 * I have had the honour to ferve her late Majefty 
 ' in one Capacity or other, ever fince her Acceflion 
 ' to the Crown. I was happy in a good Miftrefs, 
 
 * and Ihe was pleafed to have fome Confidence in 
 ' me, and Regard for my Services : And fmce 
 ' your Majefty 's happy Acceflion to the Crown, 
 ' I hope you will find that I have not been wanting 
 ' in my Duty, in being inftrumental in keeping 
 
 * Things quiet and peaceable in the Country to 
 
 * which I belong, and have fome Intereft in. 
 
 ' Your Majefty ftiall ever- find me as faithful 
 ' and dutiful a Subje6t and Servant as ever any of 
 
 * my Family have been to the Crown, or, as I have 
 ' been to my late Miftrefs the Queen. And I beg 
 ' your Majefty may be fo good, not to believe any 
 ' Mifreprefentations of me, which nothing but Party 
 ' Hatred, and my Zeal for the Intereft of the Crown 
 
 * doth occafioa i and I hope I may prefume to lay 
 
 * Claim to your Royal Favour and Proteftion. 
 
 * As your Acceflion to the Crown hath been quiet 
 
 * and peaceable, may your Majefty*s Reign be long 
 
 * and profperous : And tliat your People may foon 
 ' have the Happinefs and Satisfaftion of your Prefencc 
 
 * among them, is the earneft and fervent Wifhes of 
 
 * him, who is with the humbieft Duty and Refped, 
 
 SIR, 
 Tour Majefifs mojl faithful, 
 
 moji dutiful, and mofl obedient 
 
 Suhje5l and Servant, 
 
 MAR. 
 Now 
 
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 Now altho', befides this, he had, upon feme Rea- 
 fons beft known to himfelf, prevaiFd with himfelf, 
 perhaps againft Principle, to take the Oaths to his 
 prefent Majefty, he took another Liberty afterwards 
 more wicked and equally harden'd, {viz.) to forget 
 and caft off the Obligation of thofe Oaths, and re- 
 folve npon Rebellion againft that very Prince he 
 had fworn to. In order to this, he concerted Mea- 
 fures with the Jacobites and Papifts to form a Re^ 
 hellion, and by Force of Arms to make way for 
 the Pretender^ as well to bring hirn in, as to efla- 
 blifh him upon the Imperial Throne of thefe King- 
 doms: In which Concert, he for his part took 
 upon him to draw the chief of the Clans in the 
 Highlands of Scotland to Arms, and with them to 
 enter into open Rebellion. Accordingly, about the 
 Month of Jugujl, 1 715. he fet out for Scotland^ 
 where he made, for a Pretence, a great Hunting. 
 This proclaiming a Hunting, is a Cuftom among 
 the Lords and Chiefs of Families in the Highlands; 
 and on which Occafions they invite their Neighbour- 
 ing Gentlemen and Vaffals to a general Rendez- 
 vous, to hunt or chafe the Deer upon the Moun- 
 tains, of which they have there great Plenty. The 
 Ufage on thefe Occafions is, that all the People 
 round the Country, being well arm'd, alTemble up- 
 on the Day appointed and after the Diverfion is 
 over, the Perfons of Note are invited to an Enter- 
 tainment ; which the Earl of Mar obferved, and 
 having got his Friends together, he made his In- 
 tention known to them in a publick Speech full of 
 Invedives againft the Proteftant Succeffion in ge- 
 neral, and againft King George in particular. It 
 is true, that at fir ft he gained little or.no Credit 
 amongft them, they fufpe<5ling fome piece of Policy 
 in him to enfnare them : But fonte were weak 
 enough to fuck in the Poifon, and particularly fome 
 of thofe who were with him at his Houfe, called 
 
 Rrae- 
 
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 Brae- Mar. Thefe liftening to him, embrac'd his 
 Projett, and, as is reported, engaged by Oath to 
 ftand by him, and one another, and to bring over 
 their Friends and Dependants to do the like. 
 
 Previous to this, it will be neceflary to give a full 
 Account of the general Humour of the Scots, and 
 their Inclinations to fix the Pretender upon the Throne 
 of Scotland^ which the Union fo univerfally difliked 
 both by the Prefbyterians and Epifcopal Party in ge- 
 neral ; but the Prefbyterians in a great meafure had 
 heightned them to fuch a Refentment,that the defign- 
 ing Party in the Pretender's Intereft made it the main 
 Bait to catch the unthinking People, who imagin'd 
 themfelves enflav'd to £;zg-/iy^ Bondage by the Union. 
 How far this was cultivated, is plainly laid down 
 by the ingenious Author of the Memoirs of the 
 Affairs in Scotland, of which 1 lliall give a fhorc 
 hint, to fhew how artfully the Pretender's Interefl: 
 was advanced in that Kingdom : There was one 
 Colonel Hook fent from France, who landed in the 
 North of Scotland about March 1 707. He con- 
 verfed with the Countefs of Errol, Sifter to the 
 Duke of Perth, who told him who were proper 
 Perfons for him to converfe with to promote his 
 Matter's Intereft. He then came to the Shires of 
 Perth znd Jngus, and avowed himfelf an Ambaf- 
 fador. 
 
 After he had found the People's Pulfes, he pro- 
 duced a Letter from the Pretender, and another 
 from the French King, empowering him to treat 
 with the People of Scotland, for eftablifhing the 
 Chevalier St. George upon the Throne, and reco- 
 vering the Nation's Sovereignty and ancient Privi- 
 leges : He likewife produced leveral Queries from 
 Monfieur de Torci, relating to the Number of Men 
 that could be raifed in Scotland, the Conveniency of 
 fubfifting Troops, befides the Number of Men, 
 Sum of Money, and other "War-like Matters to be 
 
[ ] 
 
 fent from France % thefe Matters being' adjufl-ed, an 
 Anfwer to Monfieur de l^orci'^ Qiieftions was com- 
 piled, with a full Account of the Pofture of Affairs, 
 particularly the People's Inclinations, and Forward-, 
 nefs of the very Prelbyterians ; and fo figned Papers 
 which were lodged in the hands of Colonel Hook^ 
 to be tranfported to France^ fubfcribed by fixteen 
 Peers. This gave Encouragement for the Court of 
 France to fit out a Fleet to tranfport the Chevalier 
 St. George to Scotland^ which was done accordingly, 
 but without any Refult, but returning in hafte home ; 
 yet this early Engagement to the Pretender^ tho* 
 then crofTed, was ftill maintained till the Rebellion 
 broke out \ tho' fome that were then very forward, 
 afted now in Difguife, as a certain Duke in the 
 North has done j yet his VafTals encouraged by his 
 Son, made themfelves a very great part of thofe in 
 Rebellion, 
 
 The Highlanders in Scotland are, of all Men in 
 the World, the foonefl wrought upon to follow 
 their Leaders or Chiefs into the Field, having a 
 wonderful Veneration for their Lords and Chief- 
 tains, as they are called there : Nor do thefe Peo- 
 ple ever confider the Validity of the engaging Caufe, 
 but blindly follow their Chiefs into what Mifchief 
 they pleafe, and that with the greateft Precipitation 
 imaginable. 
 
 They are fo entire at the Devotion of their Chiefs, 
 that formerly, when one Clan fell out with another, 
 they formed Bodies, and invaded each other's Terri- 
 tories, fpoiling and plundering each other's Lands 5 
 and publick Rencounters foJlow'd not eafily to be 
 appeafed, the Grudges for many Generations, of 
 which there are ftill fome remaining. 
 
 The Earl of Mar^ to glofs his Aftions with a 
 Teeming Reflexion as of Sorrow for what was paft^ 
 told them, that tho' he had been very inftrumental 
 in forwarding the Union of the T\yo Kingdoms in 
 
 the 
 
[ ] 
 
 the late Reign of Queen Anne^ yet now his Eyes 
 were open, and he could fee his Error, and would 
 therefore do what lay in his Power to make them 
 again a Free People, and that they fhould enjoy 
 their ancient Liberties, which were by that curfed 
 Union^ as he cali'd it, deliver'd up into the Hands 
 of the Englijh \ whofe Power to enflave them far- 
 ther was too great, and their Defigns to do it daily 
 vifible, by the Meafures that were taken, efpeciaily 
 by the Prince of Hanover ; who ever fince he had 
 afcended the Throne, regarded not the Welfare of 
 his People, nor their Religion, but folely left it to 
 a Set of Men, who, while they pufli'd on his par- 
 ticular Intereft to fecure his Government, made fuch 
 Alterations in Church and State as they thought fit ; 
 and that they had already begun to encroach upon 
 the Liberties of both ; which, he aflured them, had 
 already given Occafion to fome to confuk their own 
 Safety, and who were aftually refolved vigoroufly 
 to defend their Liberties and Properties againft the 
 faid new Courtiers, and their Innovations, and to 
 eftablifh the Perfon called the Chevalier St. George, 
 who, he faid, had the only undoubted Right of the 
 Crown, upon the Throne of thefe Realms ; which 
 Perfon, he told them, had promifed to hear their 
 Grievances, and would redrefs their Wrongs. Far- 
 ther he added. That Thoufands were in League and 
 Covenant with him, and with one another, to Rife 
 and Depofe King George, and eftablifh the faid 
 Chevalier ; and that the Duke of Ormond and the 
 Lord Bolingbrook were gone over to France to en- 
 gage the Regent of France to be aiding and affift- 
 ing with Men and Money, and that they would not 
 fail, with a good Force, to land, together with the 
 Duke of Berwick to command them, in the Weft 
 of England. 
 
 This, and much more he faid to them with a 
 popular infinuatiiig Air, which prefently took with 
 
 the 
 
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 the unthinking People in the Highlands, who be-* 
 ing alfo perfuaded by fome of their Leading Men, 
 eafily gave Credit to what he faid ; when having 
 before obtained the Pretender's Commiflion to act as 
 Lieutenant- General, immediately took upon him to 
 exercife the Authority of a Milixary Officer ; and 
 accordingly upon the 9th of September, 171 5. fet 
 up the Pretender's Standard at a Town called Kirk- 
 Michael, and there proclaimed him King of Scotland, ■ 
 England, France, &c. Having continued here four 
 or five Days, he, with this fmall Beginning, for 
 he had not then above 60 Men with him, marched 
 to Moulin, thence to Logaret, increafing daily, and 
 being then near 1 000 Men •, thence he marched to 
 Dunkeld, and was by that time increafed to 2000. 
 With thefe he fet forwards to Perth, having ordered 
 that Town to be feized, as it was by Mr. John Hay^ 
 Brother to the Earl of Kinnoul. This was done on 
 the 1 6th of September, with a Party of about 200 
 Horfe : The Earl of Rothes being at the fame 
 time marching with a Body of 500 Men of King 
 George's Friends to have done the fame. He 
 ftaid at this Town fome time, expedling the Clans 
 to join him, and fent out Parties to feveral Quar- 
 ters, to bring in what Ammunition and Arms they 
 could find, and of which they really brought in a 
 great many : Several Pieces of Cannon were alfo 
 brought hither to him from Dunotter-C^Me, and 
 from Dundee : He likewife having Intelligence of 
 a Ship's loading of Arms which lay at Brunt-ljland, 
 bound for the North to the Earl of Sutherland, he 
 detached a Party of 800 Men, who went and feized 
 the Veffel, and found therein 306 compleat Stands 
 of Arms, defign'd, as before is faid, for the Earl 
 of Sutherland, _ who was juft then gone to his own 
 Country, to raife his Tenants and VaiHils for the 
 King's Service, and, if pofTible, to hinder the 
 Northern Clans frotn joining the Earl of Mar. 
 
[ '33 ] 
 
 By this time however the Clans began to flir : 
 And firll of all, the Laird of Mackinto/hy Chief 
 of the Name of Mackinto/h, and who are a confi- 
 derable and numerous Clan, by the Perfuafion of 
 his Kinfman the Brigadier of that Name, command- 
 ed his Vaffals to attend him to the Pretender's 
 Standard then at Perth. And here it is obfervable, 
 that tho' thefe Men were always noted to be on the 
 other Side, and were always for the Revolution yet 
 without examining the Caufe, feveral of them obey'd 
 his Orders, and blindly engaged. The Brigadier 
 placed himfelf at their Head, formed them into a 
 Regiment, and regulated them very well, being no 
 lefs^han 500 ftout Men. Thus they marched with 
 their Chief to Perth, where they found the Earl 
 of Mar with his Forces. 
 
 They were no fooner advanced to that Town, 
 but he fingled them out, and the Brigadier at the 
 Head of them, for that defperate Attempt of paffing 
 the Firth of Edinburgh, and landing in Lothian, (of 
 which I have fpoken at large.; Accordingly they 
 march'd to the Sea-Coaft of Fife, and there, with 
 other five Regiments, viz. Mar's own. Lord ^trath- 
 jnore's. Lord Nairn's, Lord Charles Murrafs, and 
 Lord Drummond's ; making in all 2500 Men ; 
 having feized all the Boats they could find upon 
 that Coaft, they all embark'd. His Majefty's Ships 
 then in the Firth made up to them, as well as the 
 Circumftances would permit, but could not hinder 
 1 500 from croffing, and getting fairly afhore , tho* 
 they fired hard upon them ; (of all which a full Ac- 
 count is already given in the Englijb Part of the 
 Story.) 
 
 I therefore go back to the Earl of Mar's Pro- 
 ceeding : The Account of the taking the Ship with 
 Arms, gave fome Reputation to his Condud. The 
 Manner was thus •, the Arms that were taken, were 
 ordered from Edinburgh Caftle for the Earl of Sw- 
 
 therland. 
 
[ 13+ ] 
 
 iherlaml, and were fhipped off at Letib ; but the 
 M^er of the Ship called at Brunt-IJland to fee his 
 Wife and Family, the Earl of Mar having notice, 
 detach'd from Perth, OMer 2. in the Evening, 
 400 Horfe, with as many Foot behind them, who 
 arrived at Brunt-IJland about Midnight ; and havino- 
 prefs'd all the Boats in the River, boarded the Ve? 
 fel, and feiz'd the Arms. They alfo found about 
 100 Arms in the Town, and 20 or 30 in another 
 Ship ; all which they took and carried off, and fo 
 returned to Perth undifturb'd : For the Duke of 
 Jrgyle had no notice of them till it was too late 
 on the contrary, the Duke had notice that the Earl 
 of Mar defigned to be at Aloway, his own Houfe, 
 four Miles from Stirling^ with a ftrong Detachment* 
 Upon which Advice, he order'd out the Picquets 
 of Horfe and Foot, and had all the Troops ready 
 to march to fuftain them, if there had been occa- 
 fion ; but none of the Rebels appearing, the Pic- 
 quets returned to the Camp. For indeed this was a 
 falfe Alarm, defign'd by the Earl of Mar on pur- 
 pofe to amufe the Duke. The Succefs the Rebels 
 found at Brunt-IJland mightily encouraged them 
 and their Friends : Alfo in every Piace after, they 
 not forgetting to range about the Towns and Coaft 
 of Fife in queft of Arms, and in part made them- 
 felves amends for their being difappoined in thofs 
 they expeded from France 5 which, by the Care of 
 Sir George Bing, were about this time difcovered, 
 and by the earned Application of the Earl of Stair ^ 
 were ftopt at Havre-de-Grace, 
 
 The fame Day that the Earl of Mar went from 
 Bunkeld to Perth, Mr. James Murray, fecond Son 
 to the Vifcount of Stormount, arrived incognito at 
 Edinburgh from France, by way of England, and 
 crofllng the Firth at Neivhaven above Leith, got 
 undifcover'd into Fife, and fo to Perth. His Ar- 
 rival gave another Occafion of great Rejoicings a- 
 
 mong 
 
[ »35 ] 
 
 mong the Rebels for he brought large Promlfes-. 
 from the Pretender, and from the Court of St. Ger^ 
 main's, and took to himfelf the Character of Secre- 
 tary of State to the Pretender. About this time 
 alfo, a ftrong Party of the Mac- Donald's, Mac- 
 Clean's, and Cameron's in Rebellion, attempted to 
 furprize the Garifon of Inverlochy, and fucceeded 
 fo far as to take two Redoubts at fome Diftance, in 
 one of which were an Officer and twenty Men, and 
 another a Serjeant with five : But the main Garifon 
 being upon their Guard) the Rebels marched off to 
 Argylefjire. 
 
 Before I proceed any further in this Part, the 
 Order of Things calls me back to give an Account 
 of a Defign to furprize the Caftle of Edinburgh. It 
 was on the 9th of September that the Attempt was 
 made the Lord Drummond was the Perfon chiefly 
 concern'd, but it was communicated to feveral o- 
 thers, and there were no lefs than Ninety choice 
 Men pick'd out for the Enterprize, all Gentlemen. 
 They had corrupted one Ainejly a Serjeant, who v/as 
 afterwards hang'd for it ; a Corporal, and two Cen- 
 tinels, within the Caftle : Thefc were- to be ready 
 to affift at a certain Place upon the Wall near the 
 Sally- Port ; where, having contived a Scaling-Lad- 
 der made of Ropes and with Pulleys, which being 
 faftened to the Top of the Wall by the Confpira- 
 tors, the Centinel was to draw up with a fmall Rope 
 provided pn Purpofe. This Engine was fo con- 
 trived^ that it could draw up feveral Men a-breaft : 
 all the Joints or Lengths of this Ladder not coming 
 at once, it proved too fhort in Length for any to 
 get over the Wall. While this was doing, the Of- 
 ticers of the Garifon got Intelligence of the Defign, 
 and having got their Men together filently, they 
 difcover'd the Ladder, unloofed it at the Top of 
 the Wall, and let it fall, and immediately ordered 
 the Centinel to difcharge his Piece. Upon this, 
 
 the 
 
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 the Rounds alfo fired upon the Gentlemen at the 
 Foot of the Ladder, who immediately difpers'd 
 themfelves, four only of their Number being taken. 
 This Projed's failing, is attributed to the Gentle- 
 man's Negled in not bringing all the Lengths of 
 the Ladder at once, and the Centinel's fixing of it 
 at a Place fome Diftance from that firft refolv'd on : 
 For Lieutenant Lindfey going the Rounds, as above, 
 found that the Ladder was aftually drawn up, and 
 fixed on the Top of the Wall ; upon which, he or- 
 dered the next Centinel to fire, (as above.) The 
 Corifpirators finding the Plot was difcover'd, fled, as 
 is faid ; but a Party of the Town^ Guard, which, at 
 the Requeft of the Lord Juftice Clerk^ the Provoft, 
 had been fent out to Patrole with fome refolute Vo- 
 luntiers, coming up, found one Mac-Lean, former- 
 ly an Officer, fprauling on the Ground, and bruifed 
 with a Fall from the Wall ; whom they fecur'd, 
 with Mr. Lejly^ Mr. Ratnfey, and Mr. Bowwell j 
 the laft two, Writers ; the firft, formerly Page to 
 the Dutchefs of Gordon. They likewife found the 
 Ladder, and one Dozen of Fire-Locks and Car- 
 bines. Each Perfon concern'd was to have icq/. 
 Sterling, and a Commiffion in the Army. The 
 Number of Soldiers engag'd in this Confpiracy 
 were, a Serjeant who was to have a Lieutenant's 
 Place ; the Corporal an Enfign's ; and one of the 
 Soldiers had eight Guineas, and the other four. 
 The Lord Drummond was to be Governor of the 
 Caftle, as being Contriver of the Defign. If this 
 Defign had fucceeded, the Confpirators were to fire 
 three Rounds in the Caftle, which was to be a Signal 
 for their Friends. 
 
 But to return to the Earl of Mar^ who having 
 poffelTed Perth, and being greatly encouraged by 
 fome Proceedings, he ordered the Pretender to be 
 proclaimed there ; which was done by Colonel Bal- 
 four, and at feveral other Places, as at Aberdeen \ 
 
 by 
 
 i 
 
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 by the Earl of Marifchal at Dundee % by one created 
 Vifcount of Dundee by the Pretender, at Montrofe j 
 by the Earl of Southejk, at Fortefs ; by Mr. Cum- 
 ming, at Jlter. 
 
 By this time the Earl of Mar alfo had , taken up- 
 on him the Title of Lieutenant- General of the Pre- 
 fender's Forcts, and ordered the following Declara- 
 tion to be publifhed ; and alfo a Letter to the Bai- 
 liff of Kildrummy, as follows : 
 
 "The Earl of M AR'^ Declaration. 
 
 <■ U R Rightful and Natural King James t\\t 
 ' \J Eighth, by the Grace of God, who is now 
 ' coming to relieve us from our Oppreffions, having 
 . ' been pleas'd to entruft us with the Diredlion of his 
 
 * Affairs, and the Command of his Forces in this 
 « his ancient Kingdom of Scotland : And fome of 
 ' his faithful Subjeds and Servants met at Jboyne, 
 ' viz. the Lord Huntley, the Lord 1'ullibardine, the 
 ' Earl Marifchal, the Earl of Southejk, Glingary 
 « from the Clans, Glenderule from the Earl of Broad- 
 ' albine, and Gentlemen of Anglefiire, Mr. Patrick 
 
 • ' Lyon oi Auchterhoufe, the Laird of ^z^/^/^^ir, Lieu- 
 « tenant- General George Hamilton, Major- General 
 
 - < Gordon, and myfelf, having taken into Confide- 
 ' ration his Majefty's laft and late Orders to us, 
 « find, that as this is now the Time that he ordered 
 « us to appear openly in Arms for him, fo it feems 
 ' to us abfolutely neceffary for his Majefty's Service, 
 ' and the relieving our Native Country from all its 
 ' Hardfhips, that all his faithful and loving Subjeas, 
 ' and Lovers of their Country, Ihould with all 
 
 * pofTible Speed put tliemfelves into Arms. 
 
 ' Thefe are therefore, in his Majefty's Name and 
 ' i^uthority, and by Virtue of the Power afbrefaid, 
 
 * and by the King's fpecial Order to me thereunto, 
 to require and impower you forthwith to raife 
 
 K 2 * your 
 
* are immediately to march them to join me and 
 ' fome other of the King's Forces at the Invor of 
 
 * Brae-mar^ on Monday next, in order to proceed 
 ** on our March to attend the King's Standard, 
 
 * with his other Forces. 
 
 ' The King intending that his Forces fhall be paid 
 ' from the Time of their fetting out, he expeds, 
 ' as he pofitively orders, that they behave them- 
 
 * felves civilly, and commit no Plundering, nor 
 ' other Diforders, upon the higheft Penalties and 
 
 * his Difpleafure, which is expedled you'll fee ob- 
 
 * ferved. 
 
 ' Now is the Time for all good Men to fliew 
 ' their Zeal for his Majefty's Service, whofe Caufe 
 ' is fo deeply concerned, and the Relief of our na- 
 ' tive Country from Oppreflion and a foreign Yoke, 
 ' too heavy for us and our Pofterity to bear and 
 
 * to endeavour the reftoring not only our rightful 
 ' and native King, but alfo our Country to its an- 
 ' cient, free, and independent Conftitution, under 
 ' him, whofe Anceftors have reigned over us for fo 
 ' many Generations. 
 
 ' In fo honourable, good, and juft a Caufe, we 
 
 * cannot doubt of the Affiftance, Direction, and 
 ' Bleffing of Almighty God, who has fo often re- 
 ' fcued the Royal Family of Stuart, and our Coun- 
 ' try from finking under Oppreflion. 
 
 * Your pundlual Obfervance of thefe Orders is 
 ' expefted : For the doing of all which, this fhall 
 ' be to you, and all you employ in the Execution 
 ' of them, a fufficient Warrant. 
 
 To the Bailiff and 
 the rell of the 
 Gentlemen of 
 the Lordfliip of 
 Kildrummy. 
 
 Given at Brae-Mar, the 
 ^th of Sept. 1715. 
 
 MAR. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Earl of M A Letter to his 
 Bailiff of Kildrummy. 
 
 Invercauld, Sept. 9, at Nigljt, 171 5. 
 Jocke^ 
 
 6 xrE was in the right not to come with the 
 J[ 100 Men ye fent up to Night, when I ex-j 
 ' peded four times the Number. It is a pretty 
 ' Thing, when all the Highlands of Scotland are 
 ' now nfing upon their King and Country's Ac- 
 ' count, as I haVe Accounts from them fmce they 
 ' were with me, and the Gentlemen of our neigh- 
 ' bouring Lowlands expefting us down to join them, 
 ' that my IMen Ihould be only refradory.^ Is not 
 « this the Thing we are now about, which they 
 ' have been wilhing this Twenty-fix Years ? And 
 ' now when it is come, and the King and Country's 
 ' Caufe at Stake, will they for ever fit ftill, and 
 ' fee all perilh ? 
 
 ' I have us'd gentle Means too long, and fo 1 
 ' fhall be forc'd to put other Orders 1 have in Exc- 
 ' cution : I have fent you enclofed, an Order for 
 ' the Lordfhip of Kildrummy, which you are im- 
 ' mediately to intimate to all my VafTals if they 
 ' oive ready Obedience, it will make fome Amends 
 ^ and if not, ye may tell them from me, that it 
 ' will not be in my Power to fave them (were I 
 ^ willing) from being treated as Enemies, by thofe 
 ' who are ready foon to join me and they may 
 ^ depend on it, that I will be the firft to propofe 
 ' and order their being fo. Particularly, let my 
 ' own' Tenants in Kildrum?ny know, that if they 
 ' come not forth with their beft Arms, that 1 will 
 ' fend a Party immediately to burn what they fhall 
 ^ mifs taking from them : And they may believe 
 
 K 3 ' this 
 
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 this not only a Threat, but, by all that's facred, 
 rii put it in Execution, let my Lofs be what it 
 will, that it may be Example to others. You 
 are to tell the Gentlemen that I'll exped: them in 
 their beft Accoutrements, on Horfeback, and no 
 Excufe to be accepted of. Go about this with all 
 Diligence, and come yourfelf, and let me know 
 your having done fo. All this is not only as 
 you will be anfwerable to me, but to your King 
 and Country. 
 
 2'our ajfured Friend 
 
 Sic Suhfcribitur. 
 
 '^ni Servant, 
 
 of Kildrufnmy. 
 
 MAR. 
 
 Upon the News of the Earl of Marh being thus 
 in Arms, and of the Progrefs he made. Orders were 
 difpatched immediately to Edinburgh, to fecure fuch 
 fufpefted Perfons as were thought to be capable of 
 Mifchief, whofe Names are as follow : 
 
 The Marquis of Huntley, 
 The Earl of Seaforth. 
 The Earl of Wintoiin. 
 The Earl of Carnwath, 
 The Earl of Southejk. 
 The Earl of Nithfdale. 
 The Earl of Linlithgow. 
 The Earl of Mar. 
 The Earl of Hume. 
 The Earl of TVigtoun, 
 The Earl of Kinnoul. 
 The Earl of Panmure. 
 The Earl of Marifchal. 
 The Earl of BroadalUn, 
 
 The Lord Vifcount of 
 
 Kenmure. 
 The Lord Vifcount of 
 
 Stormount. 
 The Lord Vifcount of 
 
 Kilfyth. 
 The Lord Vifcount of 
 
 Kingfton. 
 The Lord Vifcount of 
 
 Strathallerton. 
 The Lord Ogilvie. 
 The Lord Rollo. 
 The Lord Drummond, 
 The Lord Nairn, 
 
 The 
 
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 The Lord Glenorghay. 
 
 Sir James Campbell of Juchircbrecb, 
 
 Sir Duncan Campbell of Locknell. 
 
 Sir Donald Mac-Donald. 
 
 Sir Patrick Murray of AucUertyre. 
 
 Sir Ho^/:? Paterfon of Bannockburn. 
 
 Sir Alexander Erejkine^ Lord Ljc'w. 
 
 Sir Macklean. 
 
 Lieutcnant-General G^-^r^f Hamilton, 
 
 Mafter of Stormount, 
 
 Matter of Nairn. 
 
 Mafter Alexander Mackenzie of Frazerdak, 
 
 James Sterling of Keir. 
 
 Robert Stuart of Appin. 
 
 John Campbell of Aoirahalder. 
 
 miliam Murray^ Younger, of AucUertyre, 
 
 Alexander Robinfon of Strowan, 
 
 Laird of Mackinnan. 
 
 William Drummond, Servant to Lord Drummond. 
 Mr. Seaton of ^Tow^-^. 
 Lieutenant Allen Cameron. 
 Robert Roy, alias Mac-Gregor. 
 Mr. Stewart of yfr^. 
 
 Mafter ir^^a'j Stewart, Brother to the Earl 
 
 Murray. 
 John Cameron of LochielL 
 Laird of Clanronald. 
 Laird of Glenghairy, 
 Laird of Keppach. 
 Mr. Fullerton of Greenhall. 
 Mackintojh, Younger, of Borlam. 
 James Malcolm, 
 
 Mr. /^ijrry ikfa«/^. Brother to the Earl of Panmur9, 
 
 Wackinjhaw of Barafield. 
 
 Colin Campbell of Glenderule, 
 
 Graham of Bucklivy. 
 
 George Hume of Whitfield. 
 
 Mafter Drummond, Brother to the Lord Dmw- 
 
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 Lyon of AiiUerhoufe, Mafter Balfour. 
 Colonel Balfour. Bothune of Balfour. 
 
 At the fame time Orders were fent to Major- Ge-. 
 tieral Wightman^ .who was then Commander in Chief 
 in Scotland^ and was upon the Spot, forthwith to 
 march with all the regular Troops that could be 
 fpared, to form a Camp in the Park of Stirling^ to 
 fecure the important Pafs of Stirling-Bridge over 
 the Forth^ and to quarter the Half-pay Officers in 
 fuch a Manner all over the Country, as that they 
 might be in Readinefs to Encourage, Exercife, and 
 Command the Militia on any Emergence. Orders 
 were likewife given to all Officers in the Sea- Port 
 Towns, to have a watchful Eye over all Ships which 
 came into the faid Ports, or appear'd upon the 
 Coafl, leaft they fhould land the Pretender, or any 
 others fufpefted Perfons, or bring the Rebels any 
 Supply of Arms or Ammunition. But notwith- 
 ftanding thefe Orders, and that all poffibie Care was 
 taken in the Cafe, there was a fmall Ship came to 
 Arhroth, _ a little Port in the North of Scotland^ 
 loaden with Arms and Ammunition, and which. had 
 fome Gentlemen on Board from France which Ship 
 was there unloaded by the Highlanders. A few 
 Days after, another Ship arrived with feveral Offi- 
 cers, but no Stores of Arms, ^.c. The faid Officers 
 went direaiy for Ferth to the Earl of Mzr, and 
 gave him an Account that the Pretender would be 
 loon in Perfon amongft them ; which News the 
 Earl of Mar caufed to be immediately publifh'd in 
 his Army, to encourage the Men. And now his 
 Porces being confiderably increafed, he refolved to 
 crofs the Forth, if poffibie, and advance towards 
 Edinhurgh. He defign'd this Paflage five or fix 
 Miles above Stirling, and to make a fwift March, 
 that he might not be prevented by the King's 
 Forces, who wer? yet but very weak. The Pay 
 
 he 
 
[ 143 ] 
 
 he appointed was the i8th of O^foher but upon 
 Intelligence receiv'd that his Plot was difcover'd, 
 and a Detachment order'd to wait upon his March, 
 he put it off; and tho' part of his Army was ad- 
 vanc'd fome Miles, he return'd back to Perth. 
 
 Some few Days before this, the Earl pf Mar, 
 refolving to make ufe of the Advantages he had, 
 by poffeffing fo large an Extent of the Country, 
 thought of raifing fome Money, and to that End 
 iffued out the following Proclamation for an Afleff- 
 nient. 
 
 ' T^Urfuant and conform to an Order from the 
 ' Right Honourable John Earl of Mar^ Com- 
 ^ mander in Chief of his Majefty's Forces in Scot- 
 ' land^ dated at the Camp at Perth the 4th of O^fo- 
 ' her, 1 715. Thefe are commanding and requiring 
 ' every Heretor, Fewer, or Woodfetter now at- 
 ' tending the King's Standard, or that may be ex- 
 ' cus'd, or their Faftors and Doers in their Ab- 
 ' fence, and likewife all Life - Renters ; do im- 
 ' mediately proportion and raife, among their Te- 
 ^ nants and Pofleflbrs of their refpedive Eftates, and 
 ' Eife-Rent Lands, the Sum of Twenty Shillings 
 ' Sterling on each Hundred Pounds of Scots, of 
 ^ valued Rent: And fuch Heretors who do not 
 ■ immediately, nor fhall, betwixt the 12th of O^io- 
 ' ber Inftant, attend the King's Standard, if not 
 ' excufed by the faid noble Earl, immediately pro- 
 ^ portion and raife out of their refpeftive Eftates, 
 ' the Sum of Forty Shillings Sterling on each Hun- 
 ' dred Pounds Scots of valued Rent ; which feveral 
 ' Proportions, according to their refpedive Cafes 
 ' aforefaid, are, by the faid Order, ordain'd to be 
 * paid by every Heretor, Fewer, Woodfetter, and 
 
 ' Life-Renter, to Cplle^|:or, againft the 12th 
 
 f Day of this inftant OMer, at — r- 
 
 Upon 
 
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 Upon this the Duke of Argyle, to prevent as much 
 as poffible the Effed of it, made the following 
 Counter- Order. 
 
 By John Duke of Argyle, General and Commander 
 in Chief of His Majeftfs Forces in Scotland. 
 
 « TTCTHereas I am certainly informed, That the 
 « VV Earl of iW^r, and the other Rebels, have, 
 
 * in Profecution of their Treaionable Pradices, ad- 
 
 * ventured to impofe a Cefs upon fome Parts of the 
 
 * Shires of Fife, Clackmanan, Kinrofs, and Perth ; 
 
 * and whereas the paying any Money to the Rebels, 
 < or complying with any of their Orders or De- 
 
 * mands, will infer High-Treafon againft fuch as 
 ' do the fame, as being Aiders, Comforters, and 
 
 * Abettors of the Rebels : Therefore, and that all 
 
 * well-affeded People may know and prevent their 
 
 * Danger in this Matter, I hereby, in His Ma- 
 
 * jefty's Name and Authority, ftriftly prohibit and 
 
 * difcharge all His Majefty's good Subjeds, in the 
 
 * Countries above -mentioned, or any other-where 
 
 * within Scotland, to give or furnifh the Rebels with 
 « Money, Provifions, or any other Aid or Aflift- 
 
 * ance or Comfort whatfoever, direftly or indi- 
 
 * redly, under the higheft Pains and Punifhments 
 
 * of the Law. And this I appoint to be intimated 
 « at each Parifh- Church-Door after divine Service, 
 ^ and before Diffolution of the Congregation, the 
 ' Sabbath immediately after this, or a Copy hereof 
 
 * comes to your Hand. 
 
 Given at Stirling the 25th 
 of Odober, 1715. 
 
 Siztfd 
 
 ARGYLE, 
 
 And 
 
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 And another Order for Recruiting His Majefty'* . 
 Forces, as follows : 
 
 By John Duke of Argyle, General and Commander 
 in Chief of fits Majejlfs Forces in Scotland. 
 
 WHEREAS our gracious Sovereign King 
 George has been pleafed, for the better^ 
 ' fuppreffing the prefent Rebellion, to order and"^ 
 
 * appoint two Companies to be added to each Re- 
 
 * giment of Foot now in His Majefty's Service in 
 
 * Scotland^ and to appoint each Company to be aug- 
 
 * mented to the Number of Fifty private Centinels, 
 ' And fince it muft be evident to all well-afFeded 
 ' People, that the ftrengthening and augmenting 
 ' the Regular Troops, is the moft effecftual way for 
 ' fuppreffing the Rebellion, and that the fame will 
 ' bring no Charge nor Burthen upon the Country ; 
 ' and that the Harveft is over, whereby many Feo- 
 
 * pie that were that way employ 'd, are now at Li- 
 
 * berty. And in regard the Officers of the feveral 
 ' Regiments are fo employ'd in His Majefty's Ser- 
 
 * vice, that they cannot conveniently attend the 
 ' Recruiting in this Country : I hereby intreat and 
 ' require all well-affefted Noblemen, Gentlemen, 
 
 * Juftices of the Peace, Magiftrates, Minifters of 
 ' the Gofpel, or other well-afFeded Subjeds, to 
 ' contribute their beft Endeavours to perfuade and 
 
 * encourage all the able-bodied and well-affeded 
 ' Men, in their refpeflive Parochins in Town and 
 ' Country, within Scotland, to in lilt themfelves in 
 ' the Regular Forces. And I, in his Majefty's 
 ' Name, do promife, that the Endeavours of fuch 
 
 * as fhall be ufeful in this Matter, fhall be looked 
 
 * upon as good Service, and intitle them to His 
 
 * Majefty's Favour and Proteftion. And for the 
 
 * Encouragement of fuch as lhall inlift themfelves 
 
 volun- 
 
[ ] 
 
 * voluntarily in Compliance herewith, I, in His 
 
 * Majefty's Name, promife, that each Voluntier lb 
 
 * inlifting and incorporating himfelf in any of His 
 
 * Majefty's Regiments of Foot now in Scotland, 
 
 * lhall not only receive His Majefty's Bounty-Mo- 
 ' ney of Forty Shillings Sterling in Hand, but 
 
 * fhall, at the end of three Months, after the pre- 
 ' fent Rebellion is fiipprefs'd, draw and receive his 
 
 * Pafs, difcharging him from the Service, if he 
 
 * require the fame ; each iVlan who lhall fo defire 
 ' to be difcharged, always giving two Months Ad- 
 ^ vertifement before drawing his Difcharge, to the 
 
 * commanding Officer of the Regiment for the 
 
 * Time, to the effed he may provide another Man 
 
 * in his room. And I appoint the Sheriffs and 
 
 * Stewards of the feveral Sheriffdoms and Steward- 
 
 * tries, and the Magiftrates of Royal Boroughs, 
 
 * forthwith to difpatch Copies hereof to the Mini- 
 fters of the feveral Parochins within their Jurif- 
 
 * diftion, as they fhall be anfwerable at their Peril. 
 
 * And I appoint the fame to be intimate at each 
 Paroch-Church from the Pulpit, after divine Ser- 
 
 * vice, and before DifTolution of the Congregation, 
 
 * on the Sabbath immediately after this, or a Copy 
 ' hereof comes to the refpedlive Minifters Hands ; 
 ' and do recommend to the feveral Miniflers, 
 ' earneftly to exhort the People to their Duty in 
 
 * this Matter, for the Service of their King and 
 
 * Country. 
 
 Given at the Camp at Stirling, the 27th 
 <7/^Od;ober, 17 15. 
 
 Signed 
 
 ARGYLE. 
 
 A few Days after, the Earl of publifh*d the 
 following Counter-Order to that Order. 
 
 By 
 
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 By John Earl of Mar, General and Commander in 
 Chief of His Majeflfs Forces in Scotland. 
 
 WHereas by the Laws of God, the Right of 
 Blood, and the ancient Conftitution of 
 ' thefe Kingdoms, our Sovereign Lord James- the 
 ' Eighth, by the Grace of God, of Scotland, Eng- 
 
 * landy France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the 
 ' Faith, &c. has the only undoubted Title to ' the 
 
 * Crown of thefe Realms : And whereas his Ma*- 
 
 * jefty's Reftoration is the only way left to retrieve 
 ' the unhappy Confequences of; the Union, dif^ 
 ' burthen the People of the heavy Taxes and Mort- 
 ' gages they now groan under, and to prevent our 
 ' Pofterity from being involved in endlefs Miferies-: 
 
 * And whereas, many of his Majefty*s loyal Sub- 
 
 * je6ts of all Ranks have dutifully alTembled then>- 
 ' felves to the Royal Standard, in order to. reftppe 
 ' our rightful Sovereign to his Crown, and thefe 
 ' Kingdoms to their ancient and independent State, 
 ' And I having feen an Order publifh'd by the 
 ' Commander in Chief of the pretended King*s 
 
 * Forces in this Kingdom, fetting forth. That the 
 
 * Forces under his Command were to be augmented, 
 ' and inviting all able-bodied Men to inlifl thmfdves 
 ' in that Service, and requiring all Noblemen, Gen- 
 
 * tlemen, Jujlices of the Peace, Magijiraies, Mini- 
 ' fters of the Gofpel, and others, to contribute their 
 
 * hefi Endeavours to perfuade and encourage Men 
 
 * thereunto : Thefe are therefore in His Majefty's 
 
 * Name, prohibiting and difcharging all Noblemen, 
 ' Gentlemen, Juftices of the Peace, Magiftrates, 
 
 * Minifters of the Gofpel, and all other Subjeds 
 ' whatfoever, to publilTh, execute, or obey the faid 
 ' Order, and that under the higheft Pain.' 
 
 ' And whereas I have promis*d, in His M&je- 
 
 * fty*s Name, Protection to all Minifters who be- 
 
 ' have 
 
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 have themfelves dutifully, and do not acknow- 
 ledge the Eleftor of Brunfwick as King, by pray- 
 ing for him as fuch in their Churches and Congre- 
 gations, notwithftanding whereof feveral of them 
 continue in that Abufe : For preventing whereof, 
 and that they may not, by fo doing, involve and 
 miflead innocent and ignorant People into Trai- 
 terous and Seditious Pradices : Thefe are there- 
 fore exprefsly prohibiting all Minifters, as well in 
 Churches as in Meeting-Houfes, to acknowledge 
 the Eledor of Brunfwick as King, and that upon 
 their higheft Peril : And all Officers Civil and 
 Military are hereby ordered to fhut up the 
 Church-Doors, where the Minifters aft in Con- 
 tempt hereof, and to apprehend their Perfons, 
 and bring them Prifoners to the King's Camp, 
 wherever it lhall be for the Time. And I do by 
 thefe Prefents promife Protedtion to all fuch 
 Minifters as do behave themfelves dutifully to- 
 < wards his Majefty and I appoint the Sheriffs 
 
 * and Stewards of the feveral Sheriffdoms and Stew- 
 « ardries, and the Magiftrates of Royal Boroughs, 
 ' forthwith to difpatch Copies thereof to the Mini- 
 
 * fters of the feveral Parodies within their Jurif- 
 
 * didtions, as they fhall be anfwerable upon their 
 ' Peril : And I alfo appoint the fame to be inti- 
 
 * mate at each Parifh- Church, by the Minifler, 
 ' Precentor, or Reader, before divine Service, im- 
 ' mediately after the Minifter enters the Pulpit, 
 ' on the Sabbath next after a Copy hereof comes to 
 ' their Hands. 
 
 Given at the Ca^np at Perth, ih^ ift 
 of November, 17 15. 
 
 Perth, Printed by Mr. Robert 
 Freebairn, 1715- 
 
 •And 
 
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 And thus for a while the two Generals fought 
 with Pen, Ink, and Paper only : But we fhall now 
 come to feveral Adions of another Nature. 
 
 O^ober the 20th, a certain Account was brought to 
 Edinburgh^ that a Body of the Weftern Highland 
 Clans, confifting of 2300 Men commanded by Gene- 
 ral Gordon^ came before Inverrary the chief Town in 
 Argylejhire, and having that Night view'd the Place, 
 march'd back to a Mill about half a Mile from the 
 Town, and were foon after reinforced by 300 of the 
 Earl of Broadalbm^s Men. The next Day they 
 View'd the Town a fecond time, and again return'd 
 to their former Quarters. On the 2 2d they drew 
 up a third time, and fent Detachments to cut Faf- 
 cines, as if they defigned to attack the Town : But 
 finding that the Earl of Ilay^ who commanded xhe 
 Town, was ready to receive them, they thought 
 fit once more to retreat to their Quarters, and on 
 the 24th left the Place, and marched thro* Cknarchy 
 in their way to join the. Earl oi Mar. 
 
 The preferving the Town of Inverrary .was a 
 confiderable Piece of Service ; for had the JR-ebels 
 been Maftefs of that important Pafs, they might 
 have pour*d in their Men, either towards Glafgow^ 
 or into the Shire of Aire^ and muft have been fought 
 with, perhaps, to Difadvantage, as things then 
 flood, or they would have joined the Rebels in the 
 North of England at their pleafure. 
 
 The Earl of Ilay^ who performed this, is Brother 
 to the Duke of Argyle \ he is a Gentleman of . known 
 -Bravery, witnefs not only his indefatigable Care to 
 fettle the Weftern Highlands, and the Prefervatioti 
 <of this Place, but his Condudb and Courage at the 
 '^m\<i o{ Bumhlahu where he was wounded, add to 
 the Greatnefs of his Soul, ready to undei^o *the 
 .greateft Hardfhips to ferve his King, and to ^ce 
 - • • the 
 
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 the grcatcft Dangers that oppofe his Country. I 
 had the Honour to be educated under the fame Tu- 
 tor with him at the College of Glajgow, but have 
 gone wide in my Principles from thofe equally in- 
 fufed into us. 
 
 OMer the 23d, the Duke of Jrgyle had notice 
 that a Party of the Rebels, confifting of 200 Foot 
 and 100 Horfe, were marching by Cajlle-Campbell 
 towards Dumferling. Upon this Intelligence, his 
 Grace immediately fent off a Detachment of Dra- 
 goons, under the Command of Colonel Cathcart, who 
 came up with the Rebels the 24th, at five o' Clock 
 in the Morning ; and after having killed and wound ^ 
 ed feveral of them, took feventeen Prifoners ; amongft 
 them the following Gentlemen : 
 
 Mr. Murray^ Brother to the Laird of Aherkenny* 
 
 Mr. Ha'j, Son to Arhoth. 
 
 Mr. Patrick Gordon, Ahertour\ eldeft Son. 
 
 Alexander Forhes, Son to Bufiie. 
 
 William Roherfon, Brother to 'DonJhills» 
 
 Mr. Kenloch, a Phyfician. 
 
 Alexander Smith. 
 
 Mr. Alexander Gordon. 
 
 Francis Gordon of Craig. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton of Gihfiown in Strahogie : And, 
 
 George Gordon of the Miln of Kincardine. ■ 
 
 The fame Evening Colonel Cathcart returned to 
 the Camp at Stirling with his Prifoners. A few 
 Days after, a Detachment fent by the Earl of Hay 
 into Lorn to intercept about 400 of the Earl of 
 Broadalbinh Men, who were in Motion to join the 
 Rebels, being come up with, and having furround- 
 ed them, obliged them to feparate and return to 
 their feveral Habitations. 
 
 By this time the Earl of Mar being joined by the 
 Earl of Seaforthy Sir Donald M'donald, and others, 
 
 with 
 
with their refpedlve CJans to the Number of 8000 
 Men, were preparing to march from Perth ^ to join 
 General Gordon with the Weftern CJans at Auchterar- 
 der, in order to attempt the crofling the Forth, 
 which was indeed his main Defign. This was the 
 i2th of November. Upon Inreliigence of this Marchj 
 for the Rebels adv^nc'd from Perth with their whole 
 Army, the Duke of Argyle fent for a Train of 
 Field- Artillery from Edinburgh ; and having re- 
 ceiv'd all the Reinforcements he expedbed from 
 Ireland^ his Grace refolv'd not to fulfer them to 
 reach the Bank of Forth^ but to fight them where- 
 ever he could come up with theni. Accordingly 
 he pafs'd the Forth at 6'/;r'i«^- Bridge with his whole 
 Army, and advanced towards Dumblain. 
 
 This occafion'd a general Engagement, or Battle, 
 Fought near Dumblain^ at a Place called Sheriff-Moovy 
 on Sunday, November 13. And for the Reader's bet- 
 ter Information, 1 fliall prefent him with an Account 
 of that A6lion, as it is related by both Parties ; that 
 fo, feeing each Party claims the Vi£lory, he may 
 judge whofe it was by the Conclufion. The Ac- 
 counts are thus the firft is that of Colonel Harrifon, 
 being fent Exprefs to His Majefty by the Duke of 
 Argyle, and who arrived at St. James's Saturday the 
 19th. The fecond Account is that of Major- Gene- 
 ral JVightman. The third Account is the Earl of 
 Mar'*s Letter to Colonel Balfour Governor of Perth, 
 And the fourth Account is the Earl of Mar*s, printed 
 one. .- 
 
 Colonel Harrifon'j Account of the Y\&.orf, 
 
 TH E Duke of Argyle being informed on the 
 1 2th, that the Rebels had come to Auchte- 
 rarder with their Baggage, Artillery, and a fuffici- 
 ent quantity of Bread for a March of many Days, 
 found he was obliged either, to engage them on the 
 Grounds near Dujnblain, or to decamp and wait 
 
 L their 
 
tjicir coming to the Head of Forth. He chole the 
 firft on many Accounts, and amongft others, that 
 the Grounds near Dumhlain were much more advan- 
 tageous for his Horfe, than thofe at the Head of 
 the River ; and befides this, by the Froft then be- 
 ginning, the Forth might become paflable in feveral 
 places, which the fmall Number of his Troops did 
 not enable him to guard fufficiently. He likewife 
 received Advice, that the 12th at Night the Rebels 
 defigned to encamp at Dumhlain ; upon which, judg- 
 ing it of Importance to prevent them by poflefllng 
 that Place, he marched the 12th in the Forenoon, 
 and encamped with his Left at Dumhlain, and his 
 Right towards the Sheriff- Moor the Enemy that 
 Night ftopped within two Miles of Dumhlain, 
 Next Morning his Grace being inform'd by his ad- 
 vanc'd Guard that the Rebels were Forming, he 
 rode to a rifing Ground, where he viewed the Ene- 
 my diftinclly, and found as they pointed their 
 March, they defigned ftrait upon our Flank. The 
 Moor to our Right was the preceding Night un- 
 paflable, and guarded us from being flanked on that 
 fide, but by the Froft was become paflfable. His 
 Grace therefore ordered his Troops to ftretch to the 
 Right in the following Order ; three Squadrons of 
 Dragoons upon Right and Left in the Front Line, and 
 fix Battalions of Foot in the Center. The fecond Line 
 was compos'd of two Battalions in the Center, one 
 Squadron on the Right, and another on their Left, 
 and one Squadron of Dragoons behind each Wing 
 of Horfe in the firft Line. As the Right of our 
 Army came over-againft the Left of the Rebels, 
 which they had put to a Morafs, his Grace finding 
 they were not quite formed, gave Orders imme- 
 diately to fall on, and charged both their Horfe and 
 Foot. They received us very brifkly j but after 
 fome Refiftance, were broke through, and were 
 purfued above two Miles by five Squadrons of Dra- 
 goons, the Squadron of Voluntiers, and five Batta- 
 lions 
 
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 Hons of Foot. When we came near the River Jllan^ 
 by the vaft Number of Rebels we drove before us, 
 we concluded it an entire Rout, and refolved to 
 purfue as long as we had Day- light. The purfuing 
 to the River Allan had taken up a long time, by 
 reafon of the frequent Attempts they had made to 
 Form in different Places, which obliged us as often 
 to attack and break them. When they were in part 
 paffed, and others paffing the Allan^ Major- General 
 Wightman^ who commanded the five Battalions of 
 Foot, fent to acquaint the Duke of Argyle that 
 he could not difcover what was become of our 
 Troops on the Left, and that a confiderable Body 
 of the Rebels Horfe and Foot ftood behind us. 
 Upon that his Grace halted, formed his Troops in 
 Order, and marched towards the Hill on which the 
 Rebels had pofted themfelves. Thereafter his Grace 
 extended his Right towards DumUain^ to give his 
 Left an Opportunity of joining him. There we 
 continued until it was late, and not finding our Left 
 come up, his Grace marched flowly towards the 
 Ground on which he had form«d in the Morning. 
 So foon as it was dark, thefRebels, who conti- 
 nued undifperfed on the Top of the Hill, moved to 
 Ardoch. About an Hour after, our Troops which 
 had been feparated from the Duke of Argyle, joined 
 his Grace. Our Dragoons on the Left, in the Be- 
 ginning of the Adion, charged fome of their Horfe 
 on the Right, and carried off a Standard ; but at the 
 fame time the Rebels prefTed fo hard on our Battalions 
 on the Left, that they were diforder*d, and obliged 
 to fall in amongft the Horfe. The Rebels by this 
 means cut off the Communication betwixt our Left 
 and the other Body *, and they being informed a 
 Body of the Rebels were endeavouring to get to 
 Slirling, the Troops of our Left retired beyond 
 Dumblain^ to poffels themfelves of the Paffes lead- 
 ing, there. We have as yet no certain Account of 
 L 2 the 
 
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 the Numbers killed, but it*s reckoned they may be 
 abour. 8oq, amongft whom there are feveral Perfons 
 of Diftinftion. The Quality of Prifoners is not yet 
 fully known, only that the Vifcount of Strathallan^ 
 two Colonels, two Lieutenant-Colonels, one Major, 
 nine Captains, befides Subakerns, are brought to 
 Stirling. We have likewife carried off fourteen 
 Colours and Standards, four Pieces of Cannon, 
 Tombrells, with Ammunition, and all their Bread- 
 Waggons. This Vidory was not obtained without 
 the Lofs of fome brave Men on our Side ; the Earl 
 of Forfar'?^ Wounds are fo many that his Life is de- 
 fpair'd of. The Earl of Hay, who came half an 
 Hour before the Aftion, received two Wounds, the 
 one in his Arm, and the other in his Side but the 
 Bullet being cut out of his Side, it is hoped he is 
 paffc Danger. General Evans received a Cut in the 
 Head. Colonel Hawley was fhot through the Body ; 
 but there is hopes of his Recovery. Colonel Law- 
 rence is taken. Colonel Hammers, and Captain 
 Armjlrong, Aid de Camp to the Duke of Argyle, are 
 killed. The Courage of the King's Troops were 
 never keener than on this Occafion ; who, though 
 the Rebels were three times the Number, yet attack- 
 ed and purfued them with all the Refolution imagi- 
 nable. The Condu6t and Bravery of the Generals and 
 inferior Officers contributed much to this Succefs : 
 But above all, the great Example of his Grace the 
 Duke of Argyle, whofe Prefence not only gave Spi- 
 rit to the A(5lion, but gained Succefs as often as he 
 led on. The Troop of Horfe Voluntiers, which con- 
 fifted of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Diftindion, 
 fliewed their Quality by the Gallantry of their Be- 
 haviour i in a particular manner the Duke of Rox- 
 hurghy the Lords Rothes, Haddingtoun, Lauderdale, 
 Loudown, Belbaven, and Sir John Shaw. 
 
 A LIST 
 
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 A L ISH of the Officers and Soldiers killed, 
 wounded, or miffing, in the Battle oj SherifF- 
 Moor, of the droops under the Duke of 
 Argyle. 
 
 Of Portmore'j Regiment : 
 
 CAPTAIN Roherfon, and a Quarter- Mafter 
 wounded : Two Dragoons killed, and four 
 wounded. 
 
 Of Evans'j Regiment : 
 
 Captain Faner his Thigh-bone broke: Colonel 
 Hawley fliot through the Shoulder : A Cornet, and 
 a few private Men kill'd. 
 
 Of Lord Forfar's Regiment : 
 
 Himfelf Ihot in the Knee, and cut in the Head 
 with lo or 12 Strokes from their Broad-Swords 
 after Quarter: Enfign Branch, and eight private 
 Men kiird. 
 
 Of Wightman'i Regiment : 
 
 Enfign Mark wounded : Two Grenadiers, and 
 two or three Men kill'd. 
 
 Of Shannon'; Regiment : 
 
 Captain Jrnot kill'd, and five or fix Men kill'd 
 and wounded. Thefe, with a Squadron of Stair's 
 Dragoons, were the Troops that compofed the 
 Right, and beat the Rebels, 
 
 On the Left, 
 
 Of Morrifon'i Regiment : 
 
 Lieutenant -Colonel Hamar, two Captains, four 
 Lieutenants, and three Enfigns miffing, with a 
 good many private Men. 
 
 L3 Of 
 
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 Of Montague'j Regiment : 
 
 Lieutenant - Colonel Laurence, Captain Umhel! , 
 Captain Bernard , mifling ; and a good many pri-^ 
 vate Men kill*d. 
 
 Of Clay ton' J Regiment : 
 Captain Barlow kill'd. 
 
 Of the Fuzileers. 
 Captain Chiefly , Lieutenant Hay and Lieutenant 
 Michelfon miffing, and faid to be taken, and Cap- 
 tain Urqhart wounded. 
 
 Of Egerton'j Regiment : 
 Captain Vanoer wounded, and a few private Men 
 kill'd. 
 
 A particular L I S T of the Names of the Gentlemen 
 Prifoners, brought to the Cafile <?/ Stirling the \^th. 
 of November. 
 
 LORD Strathallan, 
 Barrowfield, 
 Logie Drummond. ■ 
 Mr. Murray of Auchlertyre. 
 Mr. 1'homas Drummond, Brother to the Vifcount of 
 
 Strathallan. 
 Mr. Drummond of Drumquhany, 
 Captain William Creighton. 
 
 Mr. John Rofs, Son to the Archbifliop of St.4«- 
 
 drew's. 
 Mr. Nairn of Baldwale. 
 Mr. William Hay. 
 John Gordon, Captain. 
 William Forbes, Lieutenant. 
 Archibald Fothringhame, Lieutenant. 
 
 Alexander 
 
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 Alexander GaYrioch, Enfign. 
 Jn. Carnagie^ Surgeon. 
 Nicol. Donalfofi, Enfign. 
 
 Alex. St etc art of Innerfiawie^ Fore Iter to the Duke 
 of Athol. 
 
 Neil M'GlaJJhn, Chamberlain to the Duke of AM. 
 James Steuart, Lieutenant. 
 TVilliam Adamfon, Lieutenant. 
 John Robert/on, Lieutenant. 
 James Gordon^ Surgeon. 
 
 David Gardin, Captain of Panmure's Regiment. 
 Kenneth Mackenzie , Nephew to Sir Alexander MaC' 
 
 kenzie of CoulL 
 Charles Gardin of Eittiftern. 
 John M-Leany Adjutant to Colonel Mackenzie* t 
 
 Regiment, 
 
 Colin Mackenzie of Kildin^ Captain of Fairhurnt's 
 Regiment. 
 
 Mr. John Rattray. Mr. Donald M^pherfin^ 
 
 Peter SJeuart. John Morgan. 
 
 George faylor. Donald Robert/on. 
 
 Duncan MHntoJb. Robert Menzies. 
 
 James Peddie. 
 John Forbes. 
 Alexander Steuart. 
 Donald Mitchel. 
 Fr/^ncis Finlay. 
 James Lyon. 
 Auchterlony. 
 Lewis Cramond. 
 William Steuart. 
 George Mear. 
 He5tor MHean. 
 Alexander Mill. 
 John M^intojh. 
 Robert MHntoJh. 
 Hugh Colder. 
 James Inms. 
 
 Patrick Campbell. 
 Hugh M^raw. 
 Donald M'-raw. 
 Chrijiopher M^rae. 
 John Lejley. 
 James Edgar. 
 James Mill. 
 John Gordon. 
 Donald M^murrie. 
 Murdoch M'pherfon. 
 Alexander Cameron. 
 
 L 4 
 
 Mr. Donald 
 
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 Donald M'nauchtie. Robert Miller. 
 
 Ewan MHachlan. Adam Grinfell. 
 
 Ewan M'-donald. Angus Steuart. 
 
 Donald Rohertfon. John Robert f on. 
 
 James Keoch. John Cattinach. 
 
 'Thomas Robert/on. John Richie , Mer- 
 
 Alexander Morifon. chant in Edinburgh. 
 
 Andrew Jamifon. 
 
 Captain Charles Chalmers., late of the Foot 
 Guards, one of the Earl of Mar's Majors. 
 
 \ Major- General Wightman'j Account of the Battle. 
 
 Stirling, Nov. 14, 1715, at n at Night. 
 
 LAST Friday I arriv'd from Edinburgh^ where 
 I had finifli'd all the Works and Barricadoes 
 that I had Orders to do for the Security of that 
 Town j and as foon as I came, to his Grace the 
 Duke of Argyle, he told me he was glad to fee me, 
 and that as he intended to make. a March towards 
 the Enemy the next Morning, he had fent an Ex- 
 prefs to Edinburgh for me. Accordingly on Satur- 
 day tht 1 2 th inftant, our whole Army march'd over 
 the Bridge Stirling towards the Enemy, who lay 
 at a Place czX]?d.Ardoch, about feven Miles from this 
 Place, and in the Evening our Army came within 
 abo.ut three Miles of the Enemy's Camp. We lay 
 all that Night on our Arms, and the next Morn- 
 ing being Sunday^ by break of Day I w^nt with his 
 Grace where our advanc'd Guard was polled, , and 
 had a plain View of the Rebels Army, all drawn up 
 in Line of Battel, which confifted of 9000 and 100 
 Men. They feem*d to make a Motion towards us : 
 Upon which the Duke ordered me immediately 
 back, to put our Men in Order 5 and foon after his 
 Grace order'd them to march to the Top of a Hill 
 againft the Enemy : But before all, or not above 
 
 'half 
 
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 half our Army was form'd in Line of Battel , tho 
 Enemy attacked us. The Right of their Line, 
 which vaftly out-wing'd us, lay in a hollow Way, 
 which was not perceived by us, nor poffible for us 
 to know it, the Enemy having Pofleflion of the 
 Brow of the Hill ; but the Left of their Army was 
 very plain to our View. The Moment we got to 
 the Top of the Hill, not above half of our Men 
 were come up , or could form ; the Enemy , that 
 were within little more than Piftol-fhot, began the 
 Attack with all their Lefc upon our Right. I had 
 the Command of the Foot : The Enemy were 
 Highlanders, and, as it is their Cuftom, gave us 
 Fire ; and a great many came up to our Nofes 
 Sword in Hand ; but the Horfe on our Right, with 
 the conftant Fire of the Plattoons of Foot, foon put 
 the Left of their Army to the Rout, the Duke of 
 Argyle purfuing, as he thought, the Main of their 
 Army, which he drove before him above a Mile and 
 a half over a River. As I march'd after him as faft 
 as I could with a litde above three Regiments of 
 Foot, I heard great Firing on our Left, and fent my 
 Aid-de-Camp to fee the occafion of it, and found 
 that the Right of the Enemy's Army that lay in the 
 hollow Way, and was fuperior to that Part of their 
 Army which we had beaten, was fallen upon the 
 Left of our Line with all the Fury imaginable ; and 
 as our Men were not form'd, they cut off juft the 
 Half of our Foot, and our Squadrons on our Left. 
 The Duke, who purfued the Enemy very faft, was 
 not apprized of this ; and as he had ordered me to 
 march as faft as I could after him, I was oblig'd to 
 flacken my March, and fend to his Grace to inform 
 him of what had happen'd. I kept what Foot I had 
 in perfedl Order, not knowing but my Rear might 
 foon be attack'd by the Enemy that had beat our 
 Left, which prov'd to be the Flower of their Army. 
 At laft, when the Di^ke had pqt to Flight that Part 
 
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 of the Rebel- Army he was engag'd with, he came 
 back to me, and could not have imagin'd to fee fuch 
 an Army as was behind us , being three times our 
 Number but as I had kept that Part of our Foot 
 which firfl: engaged in very good Order, his 
 Grace join*d me with five Squadrons of Dragoons, 
 and we put the beft Face on the Matter to the 
 Right about , and fo march'd to the Enemy , who 
 had defeated all the Left of our Army. If they had 
 had either Courage or Condud they might have en- 
 tirely deftroy*d my Body of Foot ; but it pleafed 
 God to the contrary. I am apt to conjecture their 
 Spirits were not a little damp'd by having been 
 Witnefles fome Hours before of the firm behaviour 
 of my FoojE, and thought it hardly pofTibfle to break 
 us. We march*d in a Line of Battel till we canie 
 within half a Mile of the Enemy , and found thern 
 ranged at the Top of a Hill on very advantageous 
 Ground, and above 40Q0 in Number, We pofbed 
 ourfelves at the Bottom of the Hill, having the 
 Advantage of Ground, where their Horfe could 
 not well attack us, for we had the Convenience of 
 fome Earth-walls or Ditches about Breaft-high 5 
 and as Evening grew on, we inclined with our 
 Right towards the Town of Dumblain in all the 
 Order that was poffible. The Enemy behav'd like 
 civil Gentlemen, and let us do what we pleafed ; 
 fo that we paffed the Bridge of Dumblain, polled 
 ourfelves very fecurely, and lay on our Arms all 
 Night. This Morning we went with a Body of 
 Dragoons to the Field of Battel , brought off the 
 Wounded Men, and came to this Town in the Eve- 
 ning. General Weblfs late Regiment, now Morri- 
 fon% is one of the unfortunate Regiments that were 
 not form'd, and fuffer'd moft. Major Hamar is 
 killed, with young Hillary, and many other Offi- 
 cers. General Evans and I had the good Fortune 
 to be on the Right Wing with the Duke. General 
 
 Evatn, 
 
^vans had his Horfe fhot de^d under him, and 
 efcaped very narrowly, as well as myfelf, 
 
 P. S, Our whole Army did not confift: of above 
 a Thoufand Dragoons, and two Thoufand five 
 Hundred Foot i and but a little more than Half 
 of them engaged. However I muft do the Enemy 
 that Juftice to fay, / never faiv Regular Troops 
 more exactly drawjt up in Line of Battle^ and that 
 in a Moment ; and their Officers behaved with all the 
 Gallantry imaginable. All I can fay is, // will be 
 of the laji Danger to the Government, if we have not 
 Force to defiroy them foon. The Lofs on both Sides 
 I leave for another Time, when wc have a more 
 exad Account. 
 
 The Earl of Mar'i Letter to Colonel Balfour, Gover- 
 nor of Perth. 
 
 Jrdochy Nov. 13. 1715. 
 
 * T Thought you would be anxious to know the 
 ' X. Fate of this Day. We attacked the Enemy 
 
 * on the End of the Sheriff- Moor at Twelve of the 
 
 * Clock this Day, on our Right and Centre car- 
 
 * ried the Day entirely ; purfued them down to a 
 ' little Hill on the South of Dumblain ; and there I 
 ' got moft of our Horfe, and a pretty good Num- 
 ' ber of our Foot, and brought them again into 
 
 * fome Order. We knew not then what was be- 
 
 * come of our Left, fo we return'd to the Field of 
 ' Batde. We difcern'd a Body of the Enemy on 
 
 * the North of us, confifting moftly of the Grey 
 
 * Dragoons, and fome of the Black. We alfo dif- 
 ' cover'd a Body of their Foot farther North upon 
 ' the Field, where we were in the Morning ; and 
 
 * Eaft of that, a Body, as we thought, of our own 
 ' Foot, and 1 ftill believe it was fo. I form*d 
 
 * the Horfe and Foot with me in a Line on 
 
 « the 
 
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 * the North Side of the Hill where we had engaged, 
 ' and kept our Front towards the Enemy to the 
 = North of us, who feem'd at firft, as if they in- 
 ' tended to march towards us ; but upon our form- 
 ' ing, and marching towards them, they halted, 
 
 * and march'd back to DumUain. Our Baggage 
 ' and Train- Horfes had all run away in the begin- 
 
 * ning of the Aftion : But we got fome Horfes, 
 ' and brought off moft of the Train to this Place, 
 
 * where we quarter to Night about Ardoch, whither 
 ' we march'd in very good Order : And had our 
 ^ Left and Second Line behav'd as our Right, 
 ' and the reft of the firft Line did, our Viftory 
 
 * had been compleat : But another Day is coming 
 
 * for that, and I hope e'er long too, 
 
 * I fend you a Lift of the Officers Names who 
 
 * are Prifoners here, befides thofe who are dange- 
 
 * roufly wounded, and could not come along, whofe 
 
 * Words of Honour were taken. Two of thefe are 
 
 * the Earl of Forfar, who I*m afraid will die, and 
 ' Captain Urquhart of Buris-Tard, who is very ill 
 ' wounded. We have alfo a good Number of 
 ' private Men Prifoners ; but the Number I do not 
 ' exaftly know. 
 
 * We have loft, to our Regret, the Earl of 
 
 * Strathmore, and the Captain of Clan-Ranald. Some 
 are miffing ; but their Fate we are not fure of 
 
 ' The Earl of Panmure, Brummond of Logie^ 
 
 * and Lieutenant-Colonel Maclean, are wounded. 
 
 * This is all that I have to fay now, .but that I am. 
 
 Tours, Sec, 
 
 MAR. 
 
 P. S. We have taken a great many of the Ene- 
 my's Arms. 
 
 Mon- 
 
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 Montague'i Regiment : 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Lawrence, 
 Captain John Edwards, -.^ 
 
 Clayton'i : 
 Captain William Barlow, 
 Lieutenant Edward Gib/on, 
 Captain Michael Moret. 
 
 Lord Mark Ker'i : 
 Captain Walter Cheijly. 
 
 Earl Orrery'j : 
 
 * Lieutenant Thomas Mitcbil/on, Hay^ and Richard 
 
 He new ay. 
 
 Brigadier yionihn^ s : 
 Enfign Juftin Holdman^ fmce dead Ghnkendy, 
 and a good Number of private Men and Arms. 
 
 'The following Letter was written three Days after the 
 Battle, by the Governor of Brunt-Ifland. 
 
 Nov. 1 6. 1 7 15. 
 
 * rTpH I S Morning we had the following Parti- 
 
 * JL culars by Letters from the Governor of 
 ' Perth, and Mr. Mark Wood, Dean of Guild there, 
 ' viz. That one Hundred and ten private Men 
 ' were brought Prifoners to Perth Yefterday, with 
 ' ten Officers. The Enemy loft on the Spot above 
 ' eight Hundred Men ; and of ours, there is not above 
 
 * fixty private Men killed, but feveral of our Offi- 
 ' cers are taken. We have got forty good Horfes, 
 ' and one Thoufand five Hundred Stand of the 
 ' Enemy's Arms. Upon Receipt of this News the 
 ' Governor acquainted the Magift rates, whereupon 
 
 ' they 
 
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 ' they went to Churchy and thahk*d God for the 
 ' Vidory. 
 
 An Account of the Ejigagemeni on the Sheriff- Moof 
 near Dumblain, Novem. 13. 17 15. betwixt the 
 K}ng*s Army, commanded by the Earl of Mar, and 
 the Duke of B<— «-k*j commanded by Argyle. 
 
 THere being various and different Reports in- 
 duftrioufly fpread abroad, to cover the Vido- 
 ry obtained by the King's Army over the Enemy ; 
 the beft way to fet it ia a clear Light, is to narrate 
 the true Matter of Faft, and leave it to the World 
 to judge impartially thereof. 
 
 Thurfday, Nov. 10. The Earl of Af^zr reviewed 
 the Army at Auchterarder* 
 Friday 11. Refted. 
 
 Saturday 12. The Earl of Mar order*d Lieu- 
 tenant-General Gordon, and Brigadier Ogilvie, with 
 three Squadrons of the Marquis of Huntley, and 
 the Mafter of Sinclair's five Squadrons of Horfe, 
 and all the Clans, to march and take Poffeflion of 
 Dumblain, which was order'd to be done two Days 
 before, but was delay'd by fome Interruptions ; and 
 all the reft of the Army was order'd at the fame time, 
 to parade upon the Moor of Tullibardine very early, 
 and to march after General Gordon. The Earl of 
 Mar went to Drummond-Cajlle to meet with my 
 Lord Broadalbin, and ordered General Hamilton to 
 march the Army. Upon the March, General 
 Hamilton had Intelligence of a Body of the Ene- 
 my's having taken Poffeflion of Dumblain, which 
 Account he lent immediately to the Earl of Mar, 
 A little after. General Hamilton had another Exprels 
 from General Gordon, who was then about two Miles 
 to the Weflward of Ardoch, that he had Intelligence 
 of a great Body of the Enemy's being in Dumblain ; 
 upon which General Hamilton drew up the Army, 
 
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 ib as the Ground at the Roman Camp near Ardoch 
 would allow. A very little after, the Earl of Mar 
 came up to the Army, and not hearing any more 
 from Lieutenant General Gordon, who was marched 
 on, judg'd it to be only fome fmall Party of the 
 Enemy to difturb our March, ordered the Guards 
 to be poflied, and the Army to their Quarters, with 
 Orders to aflemble upon the Parade, any time of 
 the Night or Day, upon the firing of three Cannon. 
 A litde after the Army was difmifs'd, the Earl, of 
 Mar had an Account from Leiutenant - General 
 Gordon^ that he had certain Intelligence of the Duke 
 of Argyle*^ being at Dumhlain with his whole Army. 
 Upon which the General was order'd to halt, till 
 the Earl Ihould come up to him, and ordered the 
 three Guns to be fired ; upon which the Army 
 form*d immediately, and march'd up to Lieutenant^ 
 General Gordon at Kinbuck, where the whole Army- 
 lay under Arms, with Guards advanced from each 
 Squadron and Battalion till break of Day. 
 
 Sunday the 13th, The Earl of Mar gives Orders 
 for the whole Army to form on the Moor, to the 
 Left of the Road that leads to Dumblain, fronting 
 to Dumblain ; the General Perfons were ordered to 
 their Polls. The Stirling Squadron with the King's 
 Standard, and two Squadrons of the Marquis of 
 Huntlefs, form'd the Right of the firfl Line of 
 Horfe. All the Clans form'd the Right of the firft 
 Line of Foot ; the Perthjhire and Fife/hire Squa- 
 drons form'd the Left of the firfl: Line of" Horfe ; 
 the Earl Marjhal\ Squadron on the Right of the 
 fecond Line, three Battalions of the Marquis of 
 SeafortB's Foot, two Battalions of my Lord Huntlef^^ 
 the Earl of Pamnure^^, the Marquis of 1'ulUbardine's^ 
 the Battalions of Drummofid, commanded by the Vif* 
 count of Strathallan and Logie Almond, the Battalion 
 of St rowan, and the Angus Squadron of Horfe 
 form'd the fecoiid Line. When the Army was 
 
 forming. 
 
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 forming, we difcover'd fome fmall Number of the 
 Enemy on the Height of the Weft End of the 
 Sheriff-Muir, which looks into Dumhlain ; from 
 which Place they had a full View of our Army. 
 The Earl of Mar cali'd a Council of War, con- 
 fifting of all the Noblemen, Gentlemen, General Of- 
 ficers, and Heads of the Clans, which was held in 
 the Front of the Horfe on the Left, where it was 
 voted to fight the Enemy, Nemine Contradicente. 
 Upon which, the Earl of Mar order'd the Earl 
 Marjhal, Major-General of the Horfe, with his 
 own Squadron, and Sir Donald Mac-Donald's Bat- 
 talion, to march up to the Height where we faw 
 the Enemy, and diQodge them, and fend an Ac- 
 count of their Motions and Difpofitions. No fooner 
 the Earl Marfhal begun his March, but the Ene- 
 my difappear'd, and the Earl of Mar order'd the 
 Army to march up after them. By the other Gene- 
 rals Orders, the Lines march'd oft' the Right, di- 
 vided in the Center, and march'd up the Hill in 
 four Lines. After marching about a Quarter of a 
 Mile, the Earl of Marifchal fent back an Account 
 that they difcover'd the Enemy forming their Line 
 very near him, to the South of the Top of the Hill ; 
 upon which the Army, particularly the Horfe, was 
 order'd to march up very quickly, and form to the 
 Enemy ; but by the breaking of their Lines in 
 marching off, they fell in fome Confufion in the 
 forming, and fome of the fecond Line jumbled into 
 the firft, on or near the Left, and fome of the 
 Horfe form'd near the Center, which feems to have 
 been the Occafton that the Enemy's few Squadrons 
 on the Right were not routed as the reft. 
 
 The Earl of Mar plac'd himfelf at the Head of 
 the Clans, and finding the Enemy only forming their 
 Line, thought fit to attack them in that Pofture ; 
 he fent Colonel IVilltam Clepham, Adjutant- General 
 to the Marquis of Drummond^ Lieutenant- General 
 
 of 
 
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 ©f the Horfe on the Right, and to Lieutenant- Ge- 
 neral Gordon on the Right of the Right of the Foot, 
 and Major David Erjkine^ one of his Aids-de-Camp, 
 to the Left, with Orders to march up and attack 
 immediately : And upon their Return, pulHng off* 
 his Hat, wav'd it with a Huzza, and advanced to 
 the Front of the Enemy *s form'd Battalions ; upon 
 which, all the Line to the Right, being of the 
 Clans, led on by Sir ]3onald Mac-Donald's Brothers, 
 Glengary, Captain of Chn- Ranald, Sir John Mac- 
 lean, Glenco Campbell of Glenlyon, Colonel of Broad- 
 alhin\, and Brigadier Ogthy of Boyne, with Colonel 
 Cordm of Glenhack, at the Head of Huntlefs Bat- 
 talions, made a moft furious Attack, fo that in feven 
 or eight Minutes, we could neither perceive the Form 
 of a Squardon, or Battalion of the Enemy before us. 
 We drove the main Body and Left of the Enemy, 
 in this manner, for about half a Mile, killing and 
 taking Prifoners all that we could overtake. The 
 Earl of Mar endeavoured to ftop our Foot, and 
 put them in fome Order to follow the Enemy, 
 which we faw making off in fome fmall Bodies, 
 from a little Hill below, towards DupiUain, v^here 
 the Earl of Mar refolved to follow them to com- 
 pleat the Vidory : When an Account was brought 
 him that our Left, and moft of our fecond Line 
 had given way, and the Enemy was purfuing them 
 down the back of the Hill, and had taken our Ar- 
 tillery immediately the Earl " of Mar gave Orders 
 for the Horfe to wheel, and having put the Foot 
 in Order, as faft as could be, march'd back with 
 them. When he was again near the Top of the 
 Hill, two Squadrons of the Enemy's Grey Dragoons 
 were perceived marching towards us. When they 
 came near the Top of the Hill, and faw us ad- 
 vancing in order to attack them, they made much 
 fafter down the Hill than the;^ came up, and joined 
 at the Foot of the Flill to a fmall Squadron or two 
 
 M of 
 
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 of the Black Dragoons, and a fmall Battalion of 
 Foot, which we judged had march'd about the Weft 
 End of the Hill, and join'd them. At firft they 
 again feem'd to form on the Low Ground, and ad- 
 vanced towards us ; but when they faw us marching 
 down the Hill upon them, they filed very fpeedily to 
 Dumblain. The Earl of Mar remain'd poffefs'd of the 
 Field of Battle, and our own Artillery, and ftood 
 upon the Ground till Sun-fet ; and then, confidering 
 that the Army had no Cover or Vidluals the Night 
 before, and none to be had nearer than Braco, Ar- 
 doch, and Adjacents, whereby his Eordfhip exped- 
 ed the Left to rally, and the Battalions of the Lord 
 George Murray^ Innernyhe, Mac-Pherfon, and Mac- 
 Gregor, to join him, refolved to draw off the Ar- 
 tillery, and march the Army to that Place, where 
 were fome Provifions ; there were two Carriages of 
 the Guns broke, which we left on the Road. But 
 thefe Battalions did not join us till the next Day 
 Afternoon, before which the Enemy was returned 
 to Stirling. 
 
 We toolc the Earl of Forfar, who was dangeroufly 
 wounded. Colonel Lawrence, and ten or twelve 
 Captains and Subalterns, and about 200 Serjeants 
 and private Men, and the Laird of Glenkindy, one 
 of the Voluntiers, four Colours, feveral Drums, 
 ^nd about 14 or 1500 Stands of Arms. We com- 
 pute that there lay kill'd in the Field of Battle 
 about 7 or 800 of the Enemy ; and this is certain, 
 that there lay dead upon the Field of Battle above 
 fifteen of the Enemy to one of ours : Befides the 
 Number of the Wounded muft be very great. 
 
 The Prifoners taken by us were very civilly us'd, 
 and none of them ftript. Some are allow'd to re- 
 turn to Stirling upon their Parole, and the Officers 
 have the Liberty of the Town of Perth. The few 
 Prifoners taken by the Enemy on our Left, were 
 moft of them ftript and wounded, after taken. The 
 
 Earl 
 
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 Earl of Panmure being firft of the Prifoners wounded 
 after taken ; they having refus'd his Parole, he 
 was left in a Village, and by the hafty Retreat of 
 the Enemy, upon the Approach of our Army, was 
 refcu'd by his Brother and his Servants, and car^ 
 ried off". 
 
 Monday 14. The Earl of Mar drew out the 
 Army early in the Morning, on the fame Field at 
 \Ardoch they were on the Day before. About Eleven 
 O'Clock we perceived fome Squadrons of the Ene- 
 my on the Top of the Hill, near the Field of Bat- 
 tle, which march'd over the Top of the Hill, and 
 a little after we had an Account of their marching 
 to Stirling. Upon which the Earl of Mar march'd 
 back with his Army, who continued about Auch'- 
 terarder. 
 
 'Tuefday 15. Refted. 
 
 PVednefday 16. The Earl of Mar left General 
 Hamilton with the Horfe, to Canton about Duplin^ 
 and Lieutenant- General Gordon with the Clans, and 
 the reft of the Foot about Forgan and Adjacents, 
 and went into Perth himfelf to order Provifions for 
 the Army ; the want of which, m as the Reafon of 
 his returning to Perth. 
 
 Thiirfday 17. The Earl of Mar order*d General 
 Hamilton to march with the Florfe, and fome of the 
 Foot to Perth^ and Lieu tenant- General Gordon with 
 the Clans, to Canton about that Place. 
 
 After writing the former Narrative, we have 
 Account from Stirling., that the Enemy loft 1200 
 Men, and after Enquiry we can*t find above 60 of 
 our Men in all kilPd, among whom were the Earl 
 of Strathmore^ the Captain of Clan Ranald, both 
 much lamented. Auchterhoufe is miffing. Very few 
 of our Men are wounded. 
 
 ferth^, Printed by Mr. Robert 
 Freebalrn^ i/ij- 
 
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 It was reported that one Drummond an Officer in 
 Argyle\ Army went to 'Perth under the Notion of 
 a Deferter, and communicated his Mind to my Lord 
 Drummondy who made him his Aid-de-Camp and 
 that at the Battle of Dumblain he was attending the 
 Earl of Mar to receive his Orders. When the Earl 
 of Mar thought that his right Wing was like to de- 
 feat Argyle^s Left, he difpatch'd the faid Mr. Drum- 
 mond to General Hainilton (who commanded the 
 Left of the Earl of Mar's Army) with Orders to 
 attack the Enemy brif[<ily, for he was like to have 
 the beft on the Right ; but that Mr. Drummondy 
 inftead of delivering the faid Order, gave the dired 
 contrary Orders to General Hamilton, and told him. 
 That the Earl of Mar was worfted on the Right, 
 and defired him to retire with all hafte with as good 
 Order as poflible. Upon which General Hamilton 
 gave Order to halt, which was obeyed then the 
 Right of the Duke of Argyle\ Army approaching 
 them, the moft part of them gave way without 
 firing a Gun and thofe that flood, were for the 
 moft part Gentlemen and Officers, who were fe- 
 verely galled by the Duke of Argyle and his Right 
 Wing i fo that many of them were killed on the 
 Spot, and others taken Prifoners : And that Mr. 
 'Drummondy after he gave the aforefaid Orders to 
 General Hamilton^ deferted to the Duke of ArgyUs 
 Side. But this I do not affirm for a Truth. 
 
 There was another Thing very obfervable in that 
 Day's Service, viz. That one Robert Roy Mac-Gri- 
 gor, alias Campbell, a noted Gentleman in former 
 Times for Bravery, Refolution, and Courage, was 
 with his Men and Followers within a very litde 
 Diftance from the Earl, of Mar's Army, and when 
 he was defired by a Gentleman of his own to go 
 and afiift his Friends, he anfwer*d. If they could not 
 do it without me, they Jhould not do it with me : That 
 is, If they could not conquer their Enemies with- 
 out 
 
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 out him, he Ihould not affift them in the doing 
 of it. 
 
 This Engagement being over, News was brought 
 that the Earl of Sutherland with Three or Four 
 Thoufand Men, of whom One Thoufand are his' 
 own. Five Hundred of the Rofs's^ Five Hundred 
 of the Frazer^s, under the Command of the Lord 
 Lovet their Chief, Three Hundred Mackafs, Three 
 Hundred Forbe/s, and Three Hundred Monroe's, 
 march'd diredtly towards Invernefs, before which 
 Place they came the loth of November, and fum- 
 moned the Governor Sir John Mackenzie, who, 
 with about Three Hundred of his Name, held it 
 for the Earl of Seafortb, and refufed to furrender, 
 retiring to the Caftle out of which he retreated, 
 and upon the 12th they took Poffeffion of the Town 
 and Caftle. This Town was of no fmall Intereft 
 to the King's Forces for it is commodioufly feated, 
 where formerly OUver Cromwell built a ftrong Fort : 
 This Place can Mufter above Five Hundred ftout 
 Men upon any Occafion. 
 
 The Fadl in general was true, tho' the Perfons were 
 wrong named in the Account, the E. of Sutherland not 
 being in the Adion, or any of his Men. However, I 
 fay, the Town was taken, and the Lofs of this Im- 
 portant Place was no fmall Afflidion to the Earl of 
 Mar and his Party, who, with his remaining Forces, 
 after his Difappointment at Sheriff-Moor, retired 
 to Perth, and the Duke of Argyle to Stirling, where 
 both continued quiet the remaining Part of Novem- 
 ber, and all the next Month ; during which time 
 6000 Butch Foot, lately landed from Holland, were 
 in feveral Detachments marching with the utmoft 
 Expedition, and by long Marches, to reinforce the 
 Duke of Argyle's Army. Befides thefe Forces, the 
 General ordered a Set of General Officers to be fent 
 to him, for the directing the Troops, which indeed 
 M 3 were 
 
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 were much wanted. Thefe were Lieutenant- General 
 Cadogan, Generals fFhethajn, Wightman, Evans^ 
 Stanwix^ Grant. Major- General arrived 
 there alfo from h'- eland. 
 
 The 2 2d of this Month tht ' Pretender landed 
 within a few Miles of Aberdeen ; from thence he 
 marched to Scoon*^ two Miles from P^rth^ where 
 he iffued out feveral Proclamations ; one for a ge- 
 neral Thankfgiving for his fafe Arrival, another 
 for praying for him in the Churches, a third for the 
 Currency of all Foreign Coins, a fourth for fum- 
 moning a Meeting of the Convention of States, a 
 fifth for Arming all fenfible Men from Sixteen to 
 Sixty, and ordering them to repair to his Royal 
 Standard. He likewife fent this Declaration to be 
 publilhed by all Minifters in their Parifh Churches, 
 which thofe in the North of Scotland did accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 His Majeftys moft Gracious Declaration, 
 James R. 
 
 J Ames the 8th, by the Grace of God, of Scotland, 
 Englatid^ France and Ireland, King, Defender 
 of the Faith ; to all our loving Subjefts of what 
 Degree or Quality foever, Greeting. 
 
 As We are firmly refolved never to lofe an Op- 
 portunity of afferting our undoubted Title to the 
 Imperial Crown of thefe Realms, and of endeavour- 
 ing to get the PolTeffion of that Right which is de^ 
 volved upon us by the Law of God and Man ; fo 
 We muft in Julfice to the Sentiments of our own 
 Hearts declare, That nothing in the World can 
 give us fo great Satisfaftion, as to owe to the En- 
 deavours of our loyal Subjedts, both our own and 
 
 * The Place where the Kings of are ufually Crown'd. 
 
 Here the old Marble Chair, now in Wejimivfiery ftood. 
 
 their 
 
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 their Reftoration to that happy Settlement, which 
 can alone deliver this Church and Nation from the 
 Calamities which they at prefent lye under, and 
 thofe future Miferies which may be the Confe- 
 quences of the prefent Ufurpation ; during the Life 
 of our dear Sifter, of glorious Memory, the Hap- 
 pinefs which our People enjoy'd, foftned in fome 
 degree the Hardfliip of our own Fate ; and we 
 muft confefs, that when we reflefted on the Good- 
 nefs of her Nature, and her Inclination to Juftice, 
 we could not but perfuade ourfelf, that llie intended 
 to eftablilh and perpetuate the Peace which fhe had 
 given to thefe Kingdoms, by deftroying for ever all 
 Competitions to the Succeflion of the Crown, and 
 by fecuring to Us, at laft, the Enjoyment of that 
 Inheritance, out of which we had been fo long kept ; 
 which her Confcience muft inform her was our due, 
 and which her Principles muft bend her to defue 
 that we might obtain. 
 
 But fmce the time it pleafed Almighty God to 
 put a Period to her Life, and not to Ibffer Us to 
 throw our felf, as we then fully purpofed to have 
 done upon our People, we have not been able to 
 look upon the prefent Condition of our Kingdoms, 
 or to confider their future Profpedl, without all the 
 Horror and Indignation which ought to fill the 
 Breaft of every Scotchman. 
 
 We have beheld a Foreign Family, Aliens to 
 our Country, diftant in Blood, and Strangers even 
 to our Language, afcend the Throne. 
 
 We have feen the Reins of Government put into 
 the Hands of a Fadion •, and that Authority which 
 was defigned for the Protedlion of all, exercifed by 
 a few of the worft, to the OpprefTion of the beft 
 and greateft Number of our Subjefts. Our Sifter 
 has not been left to reft in her Grave, her Name 
 has been fcurrrloufly abufed, her Glory, as far as in 
 thefe People lay, infolently defaced, and her fairh- 
 
 M 4 ful 
 
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 ful Servants inhumanly perfecuted ; a Parliament 
 has been procured by the moft unwarrantable Influ- 
 ences, and by the grofleil: Corruptions, to ferve the 
 vileft Ends ; and they who ought to be the Guar- 
 dians of the Liberties of the People, are become the 
 Inftances of Tyranny, whilft the principal Powers 
 engag'd in the late Wars, enjoy the Bleflings of 
 Peace, and are attentive to difcharge their Debts 
 and eafc the People. Great-Britain in the midft of 
 Peace, feels all the load of War : New Debts are 
 contradled, new Armies are raised at Home, Butch 
 Forces are brought intothefe Kingdoms, and by taking 
 Poffeflion of the Dutchy of Bremen^ in violation of 
 the Publick Faith, a Door is opened by the Ufurper, 
 to let in an Inundation of Foreigners from Abroad, 
 and to reduce thefe Nations to the ftate of a Pro- 
 vince to one of the moft inconfiderable Provinces 
 of the Empire. 
 
 There are fome few of the many real Evils into 
 which thefe Kingdoms have been betray'd, under 
 pretence of being refcued and fecured from Dangers 
 purely imaginary ; and thefe are fuch ConfequenceS 
 of abandoning the old Conftitution, as we perfuade 
 ourfelves very many of thofe who promoted the pre- 
 fent unjuft and illegal Settlement, never intended. 
 
 We obferve, with the utmoft Satisfadion, That 
 the generality of our Subjeds are awakened with a juft 
 Senfe of their Danger, and that they fhew themfelves 
 difpos'd to take fuch Meafures as may effeftually 
 refcue them from that Bondage, which has, by the 
 Artifice of a few defigning Men, and by the Con- 
 currence of many unhappy Caufes, been brought 
 upon them. 
 
 We adore the Wifdom of the Divine Providence, 
 which has opened a Way to our Reftoration, by 
 the Succefs of thofe very Meafures that were laid to 
 difappoint us for ever ; and we moft earneftly con- 
 jure all our loving Subjeds, not to fuffer that Spirit 
 
 to 
 
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 to faint or die away, which has been fo miraculoufly 
 raifed in all parts of the Kingdom ; but to purfue, 
 with all the vigour and hopes of Succefs, which 
 fo juft and righteous a Caufe ought to infpire, 
 thofe Methods which the Finger of God feems to 
 point out to them. 
 
 We are come to take our part in all Dangers and 
 Difficulties to which any of our Subjedts, from the 
 greateft down to the meaneft, may be expofed on 
 this important Occafion ; to relieve our Subjedls of 
 Scotland from the Hardfhips they groan under on 
 account of the late unhappy Union ; and to reftore 
 the Kingdom to its ancient, free and independent 
 State. 
 
 We have before our Eyes the Example of our 
 Royal Grandfather, who fell a Sacrifice to Rebel- 
 lion ; and of our Royal Uncle, who by a train of 
 Miracles efcaped the Rage of the barbarous and 
 Blood-thirfty Rebels, and lived to exercife his Cle- 
 mency towards thofe who had waged War againft 
 his Father and himfelf ; who had driven him to feek 
 fhelter in Foreign Lands, and who had even fet a 
 Price upon his Head. 
 
 We fee the fame Inftances of Cruelty renewed 
 againft us, by Men of the fame Principles, without 
 any other Reafon than the Confcioufnefs of their own 
 Guilt, and the implacable Malice of their own 
 Hearts •, for in the account of fuch Men it is a 
 Crime fufficient to be born their King : But God 
 forbid, that we fhould tread in thofe Steps, or that 
 the Caufe of a lawful Prince, and an injured Peo- 
 ple, fliould be carried on like that of Ufurpation 
 and Tyranny, and owe its Support to Aflaflins. 
 We fliall Copy after the Patterns above-mention'd, 
 and be ready with the former of our Royal Ance- 
 ftors, to Seal the Caufe of our Country, if fuch be the 
 Will of Heaven, with our Blood ; but we hope for 
 better Things. We hope with the latter to fee our 
 
[ ] 
 
 juft ;Rights, and tliofe of the Church and People of 
 Scotland^ once more fettled in a free and independent 
 SiCdts Parliament, on their Ancient Foundation ; to 
 fuch a Parliament which We will immediately call, 
 lhall we entirely refer both our and their Inferefts, 
 being fenfible that thefe Interefts, rightly underftood, 
 are always the fariie. L.et the Civil as well as Reli- 
 gious Rights of all our Subjefts receive their Con- 
 firmation in fuch a Parliament ; let Confciences truly 
 tender be indulged ; let Property of every kind be 
 better than ever fecured ; let an A<5t of general Grace 
 and Amnefty extinguilh the Fears even of the moft 
 Guilty, if pofTible ; let the very Remembrance of 
 all that has preceded this happy Moment, be utterly 
 blotted out, that our Subjedls may be united to us, 
 and to each other, in the flrideft Bonds of Affedion 
 as well as Intereft. 
 
 And that nothing may be omitted which is in our 
 Power to contribute to this defirable End, We do 
 by thefe Prefents abfolutely and effedbually, for Us, 
 our Heirs and Succeffors, pardon, remit, and dif- 
 charge all Crimes of High-Treafon, Mifprifion of 
 Treafon, and all other Crimes .and Offences what- 
 foever, done or committed againft Us, or Our 
 Royal Father of BlefTed Memory, by any of Our 
 Subjedls of what degree or quality foever who fliall 
 at or after our Landing, and before they engage in 
 any Aftion againft Us^ or Our Forces, from that 
 time lay hold on Mercy, and return to that Duty 
 and Allegiance which they owe to Us their only 
 Rightful and Lawful Sovereign. 
 
 By the joint Endeavours of Us and Our Parlia- 
 me-nts, urged by thefe Motives, and diredled by 
 jthefe Views, We may hope to fee the Peace and 
 flourilhing Eftates of this Kingdom, in a Ihort 
 time, reftored : And We fhall be equally forward to 
 concert with Our Parliament, fuch further Meafures 
 as may be thought neceflary for leaving the fame to 
 ■future Generations. And 
 
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 And We hereby require all Sheriffs of Shires, 
 Stewarts of Stewartries, or their Deputies, and Ma- 
 giftrates of Burghs, to publilh this Our Declaration, , 
 immediately after it lhall come to their Hands, 
 in the ufual Places and Manner, under the Pain of 
 being proceeded againft for Failure thereof, and 
 forfeiting the Benefit of Our General Pardon. 
 
 Given under Our Sign Manual, and Privy 
 Signet, at Our Court of Commercy, the 25th 
 Day of O^oher^ in the Fifteenth Year of Our 
 Reign. 
 
 He was here AddrefTed by the Epifcopal Clergy 
 in the Diocefe of Aberdeen, and from the Magiftrates 
 of the faid City, which, with his Anfwers arie as,' 
 follow : 
 
 It is to he ohferved^ 'that only 'Two Prejhylerian 
 Minifters in all Scotland complied to Pray for the 
 Pretender, and were afterwards turned out by the 
 General Affembly \ and only Two Epifcopal Miniflers 
 Prayed for His Majefty King George. 
 
 To the King's moft Excellent Majefly. 
 
 The Humble Addrefs of the Epifcopal Clergy of the 
 Diocefe of Aberdeen, prefented to His Majefty by 
 the Reverend Doctors James and George Gardens, 
 Dr. Burnet, Mr. Dunbreck, Mr. Blair, and 
 Mr. Maitland, at FetterofTe, the 2gth of Decem- 
 ber, 1 7 15. Introduced by His Grace the Duke of 
 Mar, and the Right Honourable the Earl Marjhal 
 of Scotland. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 \^ E Your Majefty^s moft faithfiil and dutiful 
 ^ ^ Subjefts the Epifcopal Clergy of the Diocefe 
 of Aberdeen, do, from our Hearts, render Thanks 
 to Almighty God for your Majefly 's fafe and 
 
 happy 
 
[ ] 
 
 happy Arrival into this your Ancient Kingdom of 
 Scotlan^y where your Royal Prefence was fo much 
 longed for, and fo neceffary to animate your Loyal 
 Subjefts, our noble and generous Patriots, to go on 
 ■with that invincible Courage and Refolution which 
 they have hitherto fo fuccefsfully exerted, for the 
 Recovery of the Rights of their King and Country, 
 and to excite many others of your good Subjefts to 
 join them, who only wanted this great Encourage- 
 ment. 
 
 We hope, and pray that God may open the Eyes 
 of fuch of your Subjefts, as malicious and felf-de- 
 figning Men have induftrioufly blinded with Preju- 
 dices againft your Majefty, as if the Recovery of 
 your juft Rights would ruin our Religion, Liberties, 
 and Property, which by the overturning of thefe 
 Rights have been highly encroached upon ; and we 
 are perfuaded, that your Majefty*s Juftice and 
 Goodnefs will fettle and fecure thofe juft Privileges, 
 to the Conyidion of your moft malicious Enemies. 
 
 Almighty God has been pleafed to train up 
 your Majefty from your Infancy in the School of 
 the Crofs, in which the Divine Grace infpires the 
 Mind with true Wifdom and Virtue, and guards it 
 againft thofe falfe Blandilhments by which Profpe- 
 rity corrupts the Heart : And as this School has 
 fent forth the moft illuftrious Princes, as Mofes, 
 Jofiph, and David ; fo we hope the fame infinitely 
 Wife and Qood God defigns to make your Majefty, 
 not only a Bleffing to your own Kingdoms, and ^ 
 true Father of them, but alfo a great Inftrument of 
 the general Peace and Good of Mankind. 
 
 Your Princely Virtues are fuch, that, in the 
 Efteem of the beft Jndges, you are worthy to weair 
 a Crown, tho' you had not been born to it ; which 
 makes us confident, that it will be your Majefty's 
 Care to make your Subjedts a happy People, and fo 
 to fecure them in their Religion, Liberties, and 
 
 Property, 
 
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 Property, as to leave no juft Ground of Diftruft, 
 and to unite us all in true Chriftianity, according to 
 the Gofpel of Jefus Chrift, and the Pradice of the 
 Primitive Chrittians. 
 
 We adore the Goodnefs of God, in preferving 
 your Majefty amidft the many Dangers to which 
 you have been expofed, notwithftanding the Heilifh. 
 Contrivances formed againfb you, for encouraging 
 AiTaflins to Murder your facred Perfon ; a Pradice 
 abhorred by the very Heathens. May the fame 
 merciful Providence continue ftill to proted your 
 Majefty, to profper your Arms, to turn the Hearts 
 of all the People towards you, to fubdue thofe who. 
 refift your juft Pretenfions, to eftablifli you on the. 
 Throne of your Anceftors, to grant you a long and 
 happy Reign, to blefs you with a Royal Progeny, 
 and at laft with an Immortal Crown of Glory. And 
 as it has been, ftill is, and (hall be our Care, to 
 inftil into the Minds of the People, true Principles 
 of Loyalty to your Majefty : So this is the earneft 
 Prayer of, 
 
 ( May it pleafe Tour Majefty ) 
 
 Tmr Majefty s moft faithful^ 
 
 Moft dutiful^ and 
 
 Moft humble. Suhje^s 
 
 And Servants. 
 
 To which Addrefs his (pretended) Majefty was 
 pleafed to give the following Anfwer. 
 
 I Am very fenfihle of the Zeal and Loydty you have 
 expreffedfor me, and /hall be glad to have Oppor- 
 tunities of giving you Marks of my Favour and Pro* 
 teflion, 
 
 The 
 
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 < Hbe Addrefs of the Magifi rates and Citizens of 
 Aberdeen to the Pretender. 
 
 'To the King^s moff eitcellent Majefiy, 
 
 WE your ever loyal and dutiful Subjcfls the 
 Magift rates. Town- Council, an4 other your 
 Majefty's loyal Subjedls Citizens of Aberdeen^ do 
 heartily congratulate your Arrival to this your na- 
 tive and hereditary Kingdom. Heaven very often 
 enhances our Bleffings by Difappointments ; and 
 your Majefty's fafe Arrival , after fuch a Train of 
 Difficulties and fo many Attempts, makes us not 
 doubt but that God is propitious to your juft Caufe. 
 
 As your Majefty's Arrival was feafonable, fo it 
 was furprizing ; we were happy , and we knew it 
 not; we had the Bleffing we wifti'd for, yet infen- 
 fible , till now , that your Majefty has been pleafcd 
 to let us know that we are the happieft, and, as fo 
 we fhall always endeavour to be, the moft loyal 
 of. 
 
 May it pleafe your Majefly^ ^c, 
 
 The Pretender'^ Anfwer. 
 
 IAm very fenfthle of the Duty and Zeal you exprefs 
 for me in this Addrefs ; and you may affure your- 
 felves of my Prote^ion. 
 
 In the mean time, to raife the Affeclions of the 
 People for the Pretender^ the Earl of Mar iftlied 
 out a circular Letter in Praife of the Pretender. 
 
 G lames, Jan. 5, 1716. 
 
 IMet the King at Fetteroffe on Tuefday fe'night, 
 where we ftaid till Friday^ from thence we came 
 to Briechin, then to Kinnard, and yefterday here. 
 The King defign'd to have gone to Dundee to Day, 
 
 but 
 
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 but there is fuch a Fall of Snow, that he is forced 
 to put it off till To-morrow, if it be prafticable 
 then and from thence he defigns to go to Scoon. 
 There was no Hafte in his being there fooner, for 
 nothing can be done this Seafon, elfe he had not 
 been fo long by the way. People every where as 
 we have come along are exceflively fond to fee hifn, 
 and exprefs that Duty they ought, without any 
 Compliments to him and to do him nothing but 
 Juftice, fet aiide his being a Prince, he is really the 
 fineft Gentleman I ever knew : He has a very good 
 Prefence, and refembles King Charles a great deal. 
 His Prefence however is not the bed of him : He 
 has fine Parts, and difpatches all his Bufinefs himfelf 
 with the greateft Exadnefs. I never faw any Body 
 write fo finely. He is affable to a great degree, 
 without lofing that Majefty he ought to have, and 
 has the fweeteft Temper in the World, lii a word, 
 he is every way fitted to make us a happy People, 
 were his Subje6ts worthy of him. To have him 
 peaceably fettled on his Throne, is what thefe King- 
 doms do not deferve ; but he deferves it fo much, 
 that I hope there*s a good Fate attending him. I am 
 fure there is nothing wanting to make the reft' of 
 his Subjefts as fond of him as we are, but their 
 knowing him as we do ; and it will be odd if his 
 Prefence among us, after his running fo many Ha- 
 zards to compafs it, do not turn the Hearts even 
 of the moft Obftinate. It is not fit to tell all the 
 Particulars, but I aiTure you he has left nothing un- 
 done that well could be to gain every Body, and I 
 hope God will touch their Hearts. 
 
 I have reafon to hope we fhal-i very quickly fee 
 a new Face of AfRiirs abroad in the King's Favour, 
 which is all I dare commit to Paper. 
 
 MA R, 
 
 Likewifc 
 
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 Like wife the Pretender iffued out the following. 
 Order for burning the Country. 
 
 James R. 
 
 WHereas it is abfolutely neceflary for our Ser- 
 vice and the Publick Safety that the Ene- 
 my fliould be as much incommoded as pofTible, 
 efpecially upon their March towards us, if they 
 ihould attempt any thing againft us or our Forces •, 
 and being this can by no Means be better efFefted 
 than by deftroying all the Corn and Forage which 
 may ferve to fupport them on their March, and 
 burning the Houfes and Villages which may be ne- 
 ceflary for quartering the Enemy, which neverche- 
 lefs it is our Meaning fliould only be done in cafe 
 of abfolute Neceflity ; concerning which we have 
 given our full Inftrudions to James Graham younger 
 of Braco : Thefe are therefore ordering and requi- 
 ring you, how foon this Order fliall be put into 
 your Hands by the faid James Graham^ forthwith, 
 with the Garifon under your Command, to burn 
 and deitroy the Village of Auchterarder^ and all the 
 Houfes, Corn, and Forage whatfoever within the 
 faid Town, fo as they may be render'd entirely ufe- 
 lefs to the Enemy. For doing whereof this fliall be 
 to you, and all you employ in the Execution here- 
 of, a fufficient Warrant. 
 
 Given at our Court at Scoon this 1 7th Day 
 of January, in the fifteenth Year of our 
 Reign, 17 15-16. 
 
 By his Majejifs Command, 
 
 To Colonel Patrick 
 Graham, or the 
 tommanding Offi- 
 cer far the Time 
 tf our Garifon for 
 Tullibardin. 
 
 MAR, 
 According 
 
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 Ac(:ording to this Order feyeral Towns, asAucb- 
 Strarder, Blackford^ Dumnn^, and Muthell^ and other 
 fmall Villages, were burnt to the Ground by 
 which the poor Inhabitants , being only the old in- 
 firm Men, the Women and Childten, the able-bo- 
 died being forced from their Homes, either into the 
 Rebellion, or to feek Shelter, which made a mofb 
 difmal and deplorable Sight, to behold thofe under 
 thefe unhappy Circumftances , expofed in the ex- 
 tremeft Seafon of the Year, and in one of the cold- 
 eft Winters that has been feen thefe many Ages, fo 
 great a Load of SnoW upon the Earth, that a fpee- 
 dy Difpatch or Death would have been more eligi- 
 ble to thefe poor naked Creatures than the uncon- 
 ceivable Pains that follow Cold, Hunger, and Na- 
 kednefs to the Old and Infirm befides the Tender- 
 nefs of the other Sex and fucking Infants. The 
 Chevalier pretends ^to alleviate his Guilt in this, as 
 the Earl of Mar hints in his Memorial, by the 
 Rule of War, more to incommode his Enemies than 
 injure his Friends ; who he pretends to relieve and 
 redrefs, by leaving what Money he could fpare, to 
 be diftributed among the poor Sufferers by his Grace 
 the Duke of Argyle. 
 
 During thefe Things the Government was not 
 idle, the Dutch Troops began to arrive, and the 
 General Officers above-named made the neceifary " 
 Preparations at Stirling , to be in a Readinefs to 
 march towards Perth to attack the Pretender''^ For- 
 ces at all Hazards. At the fame time the agreeable 
 News was publifh'd in the Army, that the Earl of 
 Seaforth defign'd to return to his Duty and Loyalty 
 to King George : Which, tho' it appear*d after- 
 wards to be otherwife, yet at that Time it put no 
 little Damp upon the Spirits of the Rebels. The 
 chief Obftacle that now retarded the KingV Forces 
 from marching, was not fo much owing to the 
 Rigor of the Seafon, and the Fall of the Snow, 
 
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 though that was extraordinary, as the want of 
 Artillery, occafion'd by contrary Winds, which 
 detain'd fome Ships at the Buoy of the Nore, 
 laden with a Train and Stores from the Tower of 
 London. But his Grace the Duke of Argyle bethought 
 himfelf of the Garifon of Berwick, and fent thither 
 1 500 Draught Horfes and 500 Men, to bring from 
 thence a fmall Train of Artillery confifting of ten 
 Pieces of Cannon and four Mortars, with their Car- 
 riages of Ammunition, ^c. which, together with 
 fourteen Pieces of Cannon and two Mortars, the 
 Duke had already with him, made a fufficient Train 
 for his Expedition, at leaft for the firft fetting out. 
 It is true, his Grace wanted a Company of Gunners 
 and Engineers for the Service, which luckily were 
 brought to him the 29th, by Colonel Borgard, who 
 the Day before arrived in the Frith with the Men of 
 War and Tranfports that had on Board the Artillery 
 and Stores fo long expefled from London. 
 
 At the fame time the Duke of Argyle ordered a 
 great many Pioneers to be fummon'd to attend the 
 March of the Army, and about 2000 Waggons to 
 be got ready, refolving to carry fourteen Days Pro- 
 vifion for the whole Army, as alfo a proportionable 
 Quantity of Forage for the Horfes. 
 
 On the 2ift of January, Colonel Guefi was de- 
 tach'd from Stirling with 200 Dragoons, to recon- 
 noitre the Roads leading to Perth, in order to begin 
 the March of the Army. 
 
 On Ttiefday the 24th of January, the Duke of 
 Argyle and General Cadogan went perfonally to view 
 the Roads leading to Perth which put the Rebels 
 into fuch a Confternation, that fome of their fmall 
 Garifons abandoned their Pofts in Fife, and retired 
 behind the River Em : But the Army was not yet 
 niarch'd. Upon their Return to 5//>//«^, the Duke 
 of Argyle ordered a Detachment xo take poft at Dum- 
 Uain, and another at Down, 
 
 January 
 
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 January 29ch, His Majefty*s Army, under th4 
 Command of the Duke of Argyle^ advancing from 
 Stirling to Dumblain, and the fame Morning a De- 
 tachment of Troops, with two Pieces of Cannon^ 
 approached the Caftle of Braco, which was imme- 
 diately abandoned by the Rebels. 
 
 January the 30th, a Detachment of 200 Dra- 
 goons and 400 Foot, with two Pieces of Cannon, 
 march'd to 'Tullibardine, and diflodg*d the Rebels 
 from thence, and took Poft there, to cover the 
 Country People that were employ'd in clearing the 
 Roads from the Snow. The Army this Night ad- 
 vanc'd to Ardoch and Auchterarder^ and lay all Nighc 
 in the open Air in the Snow, the Country being de- 
 ftroy*d by the Rebels. 
 
 On 7" uefday the lafl: of January they paft the Ri- 
 ver Ern without oppofition, and advanced to TuU 
 libardine, within eight Miles of Perth, About ten 
 a Clock that Morning the Rebels abandoned Perth^ 
 marching over the River ^ay upon the Ice, and 
 about Noon the Pretender and the Earl of Mar fol- 
 lowed. The Duke of Argyle received notice of their 
 Retreat about four in the Afternoon, whereupon he 
 immediately order*d a Detachment of 400 Dragoons 
 and 1000 Foot to march and take PoffefTion of the 
 Place, which they entred about Ten next Morning 
 without Oppofition. His Grace, with General Ca- 
 dogan^ and the Dragoons following the fame Day, 
 arrived there about one in the Morning the reft 
 of the Army marching flowly, by reafon of the bad 
 Weather and Ways, arrived in the Evening. They 
 took fome of the Rebels Prifoners here, who, being 
 drunk, had llay'd behind the reft. The Place being 
 thus poflfefsM, the Duke of Argyle with the utmol^ 
 Diligence purfued the flying Enemy the next Day, 
 being February the 2d, to Errol^ with fix Squadrons 
 of Dragoons, three Battalions, and eight hundred 
 detach'd Foot. 
 
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 The next Day they proceeded to Dundee, where 
 the reft of the Army came on the 4th. The Re- 
 bels retired from Dundee to Montr ofe^ keeping ftill 
 two Days March before the King's Army ; and his 
 Grace fent on the 3d a Detachment towards Aher- 
 Irotheck, within eight Miles of Montrofe^ and on the 
 4th in the Morning his Grace divided the Troops, 
 and firft order'd Major General Sabine with three 
 Battalions, 500 detached Foot, and fifty Dragoons 
 to march to Aherhrotheck, there being two Roads 
 to Montrofe, one by Brechin, the other by Aberhro- 
 theck ; and then detached the fame Day Colonel 
 Clayton with 300 Foot and fifty Dragoons, to 
 march by the way of Brechin, giving Orders, as 
 well to Major General Sabine, as to Colonel Clay- 
 ton, to fet the Country People to work to clear the 
 Roads. , 
 
 His Grace having divided the reft of his Army 
 into two Bodies, for marching with the greater Ex- 
 pedition, proceeded on the 5th in the Morning with 
 all the Cavalry by the upper Road towards Brechin, 
 ?s did the Lieutenant- General Cadogan with the In- 
 fantry towards Aberbrotheck, the whole Army being 
 to join the next Day near Montrofe. 
 
 An Account of the Pretender's Condu5l in this Eight, 
 and his getting off, you HI find as follows : 
 
 ON the 15th of February, about Noon, in his 
 March to Aberbrotheck, General Cadogan re- 
 ceived Intelligence, That the Day before, about Four 
 in the Afternoon, the Pretender receiv'd Advice at 
 Montrofe, that Part of the King's Army was advan- 
 cing towards Aberbrotheck whereupon he ordered 
 the Clans which had remained with him after his 
 Flight froni Perth, to be ready to March about 
 Eight at Night towards Aberdeen, where he affur'd 
 them a confidera:ble Force would foon come from 
 
 France, 
 
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 France. At the Hour appointed for their March, 
 the Pretender ordered his Horfes to be brought be- 
 fore the Door of the Houfe in which he lodged, and 
 the Guard which ufually attended him to Mount, as 
 if he defign'd to go on with the Clans to Aberdeen : 
 But at the fame time he flipped privately out on Foot, 
 accompanied only by one of his Domefticks, went 
 to the Earl of Mar's Lodgings, and from thence by 
 a By-way to the Water-fide, where a Boat waited, 
 and carried him and the Earl of Mar on Board a 
 French Ship of about 90 Tons, called the Maria 
 ^erefa of St. Malo. About a quarter of an Hour 
 after, two other Boats carried the Elarl of Melfort 
 and the Lord Drummond, with Lieutenant- General 
 Sheldon^ and ten other Gentlemen, on Board the 
 fame Ship, and then they hoifted Sail and put to 
 Sea. The Earls of Marifchal and Southejk, the 
 Lord Tmmouth^ Son to the Duke of Berwick^ Ge- 
 neral Gordon^ with many other Gentlemen and Of- 
 ficers of Diftindlion, were left behind to fhift for 
 themfelves : Upon which the Clans for the moft part 
 difperfed, and ran to the Mountains, and about a 
 Thoufand of them who continued in a Body, 
 march'd towards Aberdeen. 
 
 Upon the Receipt of this Intelligence, General 
 Cadogan haften'd his March towards Montrofe^ where 
 he arrived the fame Afternoon ; the fame Night the 
 Duke of Argyle came to Brechin^ within five Miles 
 of Montrofe with all the Dragoons Lieutenant- Ge- 
 neral Vanderbeck with the Foot lay at Aberbrotheck \ 
 on the 6th they all continued their March to Aber- 
 deen. The fame Day General Gordon^ who took 
 upon him the Command of the Remains of the 
 Rebel Forces, produced to them a Letter from the 
 Chevalier, in which he acquainted his Friends, That 
 the Difappointments he had met with, efpecially 
 from abroad, had obliged him to leave that Country ; 
 
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 That he had thanked them for their Services, and 
 advifed them to advife with General Gordon^ and 
 confult their own Security, either by keeping toge- 
 ther in a Body, or feparating. On the 7th of Fe- 
 bruary in the Morning, the Van of the Rebels 
 marched from Aberdeen, as did their Rear about 
 Two in the Afternoon j their main Body lay at 
 Mddrum, but near 200 of their Chiefs, with Irijh, 
 and other Officers, who came lately from France, 
 went towards Peterhead^ in order to embark there, 
 TheTDuke of Argyle followed the Rebels very clofe- 
 ly, for on the 8th of February his Grace arrived at 
 Aberdeen, with a Detachment of 50 Dragoons and 
 400 Foot, and the reft of the King*s Forces being 
 come the fame Day into the Neighbourhood, his 
 Grace detached Major General Evans, with 200 
 Dragoons, and 400 Foot, to intercept the Horfe of 
 the Rebels, if finding they could not get off at Pe- 
 terhead j but they got to Fraferburgh, a March be- 
 fore him, and were gone to Bamf; whereupon he 
 detached after them Colonel Campbel of Finab, with 
 40 Dragoons and 400 Foot ; at Fraferburgh the 
 Chevalier's Phyfician furrender'd. 
 
 February 10,. His Grace had Intelligence from 
 Colonel Grant, That he had taken Pofleflion of 
 Cattle Gordon, and that General Gordon and the main 
 Body of the Rebels were gone paft that Place, and 
 marched up Strath-Spey and Strath-Bon, which made 
 him believe they were returning home to feparate : 
 But the Day before he fcnt this Account to his 
 Grace, they rendezvoused at Badenock, to the Num- 
 ber of 40P Horfe, and 500 Foot ; after which, the 
 Horfe, for the Convenience of Forage, marched to 
 Lochahar, and the Foot to the Mountains, with ^ 
 Defign to wait till fuch time as they heard from the 
 Pretender, according to his Promife when he left 
 them: However 120 Gentlemen on Horfeback, 
 among whoni were the Lord Duffus, Sir George 
 
 Sinclair^ 
 
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 Sinclair, General Eclyn, Colonel Hay, Sir David 
 Ihrejpland, and others, took towards Burgb in Mur- 
 ray, where they embark'd in ten open Boats for 
 Caithnefs. General Eclyn, that ever brave and bold 
 Man, to prevent his Horfe being of fervice to the 
 Enemy, Ihot him through the Head, and a great 
 many followed his Example. They landed at Dun- 
 beth, and thence pafled in two Boats, fixty of them 
 into the Orkneys, where a Ship of Twenty Guns, 
 belonging to the Chevalier, was ready to take them 
 on Board ; the other to the Ifland of Arjkerry, where 
 they feized a Scotch Ship to carry them away, de- 
 figning for France, but the Wind proving contrary 
 they failed towards Gotlenburgh. About this time, 
 two Boats full of thefe unfortunate Gentlemen, were 
 caft away going to the Wefiern Ifles, twenty one be- 
 ing in one Boat, and twenty-fix in another. 
 
 Major- General Wightman had near taken the Mar- 
 quis of Huntley, at the Houfe of 'Tannachy bullocks : 
 This Marquis, now Duke of Gordon, is accounted 
 one of the moft inconftant Men of his Age, having 
 in this very Rebellion aded fo much the Trimmer, 
 that whenever Opportunity ferved, he fided with the 
 fifing Party : Thus when he heard nothing of the 
 Chevalier's Landing, he was inclinable to furrender 
 to Mercy, and made fuch Advances as any Man of 
 Honour would have fix'd to ; but the Pretender 
 Landing, and his Affairs, by his Prefence feeming 
 to put on a better Face, he deferted his Specula- 
 tions, and returned to the old Caufe. When For^ 
 tune put a fecond Frown upon the Caufe, he was 
 inclinable again to fubmit but Jealoufy made him 
 miftruft the leaft Hopes of abufed Clemency ; yet 
 the Goodnefs of His Majefty has extended itfelf in 
 fuch a Latitude to him, that he enjoys his Life, and 
 all ; which thinking People hope he will not abufe 
 again. 
 
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 Befides 
 
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 Befides thofe above-mention'd that endeavoured to 
 make their Efcapes, the Earls of Marifchal^ Linlith- 
 gow, and iiouthejk, the Marquis Tullibardine, Vif- 
 count Kilfyth, Lord ^inmouth, and others, found 
 means to fbift from place to place, till an Opportu- 
 nity offer'd in their Behalf, to (hew them a way after 
 their old Matter. 
 
 A great many more of the Rebels fubmitted, 
 others fled to the Weft em Ifles : A good Number 
 getting together in the IQe of Skye, others under 
 the Command of Brigadier Campbell in 5outh-Weft, 
 formed a Body, as if they refolved to oppofe the 
 King's Forces but upon the Approach of the Gre- 
 nadiers to attack them, they immediately run away : 
 But the Brigadier, an old experienced Soldier, not 
 ufed to turn his back, ftood upon his Guard till 
 the commanding Officer advanc'd, delivered his 
 Sword, and became Prifoner ; this Gentleman was 
 brought to Carlijle, ftood his Trial, pleaded Not 
 Guilty, but found means to make his Efcape. Thus 
 I have given an Account of the Rebellion in its 
 blazing Origin, and its Dawning and Setting but 
 I muft d^fire my Reader to read the * Journal writ- 
 ten by the Earl of Mar at Paris, and there you will 
 find fuch Reafons as he gives fqr his Matter's Re- 
 treat, and it's hop'd it will be the laft with him. 
 You will find an Account of the Strength of the 
 Highland Clan? added, which will never again be 
 at the Pretender's Service ; fince they were ready to 
 fight, and he unwilling to lead them or head themj 
 unlefs to the Sea-ttiore. 
 
 * Vide Appendix, 
 
 A L I s r 
 
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 A LI ST of the moji confiderable Chiefs in 
 Scotland, and the Number of Men they can 
 raife, with an Account of their Difpofition 
 for or againji the Government, 
 
 TH E Duke of Hamilton can raife looo Men, 
 alJ, with their Chief, difpos'd well for the 
 Government. 
 
 The Dutchefs of Buccleugh looo Men, all, with 
 their Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Duke of Gordon 3000 Men, with their Chief, 
 who is Neutral ; but moft of them with his Son the 
 Marquis of Huntley, who is againft the Government, 
 and in the Rebellion. 
 
 The Duke of Argyle 4000 Men, moft of them 
 with their Chief, for the Government. This great 
 Duke defcended from one of the moft ancient Fami- 
 lies in North- Britain, had the Honour to Command 
 His Majefty's Forces in Scotland during the late 
 Rebellion ; which he difcharged with the greateft 
 Care, under the greateft Difadvantage, being une- 
 qual in Number and Strength to his Enemies *, yet 
 his wife Condudl has made it appear that he is a great 
 Mafter in the Art of War : For his Behaviour and 
 Conduct, whilft a Commander in Spain and elfe- 
 where, though ftill unequally in Force and other 
 Proportions, he ftill deferved the juft Glory of a 
 Conqueror ; however he may ftand in Court Fa- 
 vour, nothing wjll oblige him to revolt from his 
 Loyalty. 
 
 The Duke of Douglafs 500 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Duke of Athol 6000 Men, few with their 
 Chief, who is for the Government •, and moft of 
 them with his Son the Marquis of Tullihardine, who 
 is againft it, and in the Rebellion, 
 
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 The Duke of Montrofe 2000 Men, few with their 
 Chief, who is for the Government ; but moft 
 againft it. v 
 
 The Duke of Roxburgh 500 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. This Noble Duke, 
 whofe Father was drowned at Sea, when coming 
 from London with the Duke of Tork, had his gene- 
 rous Education from a careful Parent, which he 
 improved to the general Satisfaftion of all Men ; 
 He is a Nobleman of good Senfe, with the Advan- 
 tage of fo much Reading and Learning, and other 
 neceffary Accomplilhments, with the agreeable 
 Looks of good Humour, that by all that are fo 
 happy as to be acquainted with him, he gains their 
 AfFeaion and Applaufe : His Courage and noble 
 Soul, animated in the Defence of his Invaded Coun- 
 try's Liberty and Religion, is a lading Standard of 
 his Sincerity,, to have both eftablifli'd upon the true 
 Ground-work of the Proteftant Succeflion : Witnefs 
 his good and gallant Behaviour at the Battle of 
 Sheriff- Moor y where he afted the part of an undaun- 
 ted Hero : His Sovereign's Confidence in his Fide- 
 lity, fixes him in a Poft of Credit beyond the com- 
 mon Compliment given to Courtiers. 
 
 The Marquis of Annandale 500 Men, all, with 
 their Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Errol 500 Men, few with their 
 Chief, who is Neutral ; but moft of them againft 
 the Government. 
 
 The Earl Marifchall 500 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 Jion. 
 
 The Earl of Sutherland 1000 Men, moft, with 
 their Chief, for the Government. This Noble 
 Lord, who had the Honour to Command His Ma- 
 jefty's Forces in the North, was the only Inftrument 
 of keeping that Country in Obedience to His Ma- 
 jefty ; He had gained Fromifes both from Seafortb 
 
 and 
 
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 and Huntky to fubmit, which was no fmall Hinde- 
 rarice to Mar*s Proceedings, though neither of theCe 
 Lords performed their Engagements. Had the 
 Arms defigned him from Edinhurgh-CzSkX^ arrived 
 fafe to him, he would have given a better Account 
 of the Rebels, than it was poffible for him to do, 
 being deftitute of all Warlike Provifions yet his 
 Care' and Vigilance, and the daily Advantages he 
 gained, notwithttanding his prefling Difficulties, 
 make his Courage, Care, and Zeal for his King, 
 and Prefervation of his Country, beyond Difpute. 
 
 I muft take notice, that though I give the Glo- 
 ry of taking Invernefs to another, it is only as a 
 Subaltern aSing according to the Command of a 
 fuperior Officer ; which when duly executed, is not 
 to be paffed over in Silence. 
 
 The Earl of Mar looo Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. 
 
 The Earl of Rothes 500 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Mortoun 300 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Gkncairn 300 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Eglingtoun 300 Men, moft, with 
 their Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Cajfih 500 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Cathnefs 300 Men, few, with their 
 Chief, who is Neutral j but moft of them againft 
 the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Murray 500 Men, few, with their 
 Chief, who was lately againft the Government, and 
 is now for it ; but moft againft it. 
 
 The Earl of Nithfdale 300 Men, with their Chief, 
 againft the Government, and in the Rebellion. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Earl of Wtntoun 300 Men, mod, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebellion. 
 
 The Earl of Linliihglow 300 Men, mod, with 
 their Chief, againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Earl of Hume 500 Men. He was confin*d 
 in the Caftle of Edinburgh ; but moft of his IVIen, 
 with his Brother, againft the Government, and in 
 the Rebellion. 
 
 The Earl of Perth 1 500 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, who lives Abroad, with his Son the Lord 
 Drummond, againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Earl of Wigtoun 300 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Strathmore 300 Men, in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Earl of Lauderdale 300 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Seaforth ^000 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. 
 
 The Countefs of Dumfries 200 Men, for the 
 Government. 
 
 The Earl of Southejk 300 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. 
 
 The Earl of Weems 300 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Airly 500 Men, few, with their 
 Chief, who is Neutral ; but moft, with his Son the 
 Lord Ogihie, againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Earl of Carnwath 300 Men, moft, with 
 their Chief, againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Earl of Penmure 500 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebellion. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Earl of Kilmarnock 300 Men, all, with 
 theii- Chief, for the Government. 
 
 The Earl of Dondonald 300 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. ; 
 
 The Earl of Broadalbine 2000 Men, molt, with 
 their Chief, againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Vifcount of Stormount 300 Men, all, with' 
 their Chief, againft the Government. 
 
 The Vifcount Kenmure 300 Men, moft, with 
 their Chief, againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 I he Lord Forbes 500 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, for the Government. 
 
 . The Lady Lovat 800 Men, moft, with theiis 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. 
 
 The Lord Rofs 500 Men, all, with their Chief, 
 for the Government. 
 
 The Lord Rae 500 Men, all, with their Chief, 
 for the Government. 
 
 The Lord Nairn 1000 Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebellion. 
 
 Here follow the C L A N S. 
 
 SI R Donald Mac-Donald- 1000 Men, all, with 
 their Chief, againft the Government, and in 
 the Rebellion. 
 
 The Laird of Clengary 500 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel-^ 
 lion. This Gentleman was inferior to none for 
 Bravery. 
 
 The, Captain of Clanranald 1000 Men, all, with 
 their Chief, againft* the Government, and in the 
 iR-ebellion. This Clan did ad the part of Men 
 that are refolute and brave, under the Command of 
 their Chiefj ' who, for his good Parts, and genteel 
 
 Accomplifh- 
 
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 Accompliflirhents, was look'd upon as the moft 
 gallant and generous young Gentleman among the 
 Clans ; mantaining a fplendid Equipage ; keeping 
 a juft Deference to People of all Sorts ; void of 
 Pride or Ill-humour : He performed the part of 
 one that knew the part of a compleat Soldier but 
 a fatal Bullet from the King's Forces, through the 
 Body, difabled him, but did not daunt him ; fo 
 finding a Neceflity of yielding to the Fate of his 
 Wound, he withdrew, and told he could do no 
 more ; only his Well-wiflies attended his King and 
 Country. He was lamented by both Parties that 
 knew him. 
 
 The Laird of Keppoch 300 Men, all, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. Colonel M^Donald^ commonly call'd Laird 
 of Keppoch^ brought 300 Men into the Rebellion 
 with him he has no Eftate or Fortune properly 
 his own, being Tenant at "Will to the Laird of 
 MHntoJh, of the Farms called Keppoch, Glenroy\ 
 and Glenfpean, called Brac-lochaher ; fo that thefe 
 300 Men, living upon Mackintofh*s Eftate, are 
 properly at his Command, whenever his Occafion 
 requires him to raife his Dependants or Vaflals ; 
 tho' in the late Rebellion, Keppoch, out of Emula- 
 tion to Mackintojh, and to raife his- own Character, 
 and to make a Figure^, he formed thefe Men into 
 2 diftind Battalion, under his own Denomination 
 and Command fo that the Reader is defired to 
 take Notice, That this was not juft in him, ac- 
 cording to Cuftom in Scotland, to withdraw him- 
 felf from his Mafter, being in the fame Intereft 
 with him ; yet Mackintoftfs good Nature pardon*d 
 this in him, as alfo in the M-Pherfom, &c. Kep- 
 poch*s Character is fuch in his Country, that he is 
 efteemed a Man of great Subtilty and Cunning, as 
 hereditary in him from his PredecelTors, who have 
 been conftantly in Fewds among themfelves, flied- 
 
 ding 
 
[ '97 ] 
 
 ding each others Blood in the moft barbarous Man- 
 ner ever heard of. His Pretenfions to ferve the Fa- 
 mily of Stewart have been very great ; but yet he 
 never made that known by any one fingle Afl of 
 Bravery : For when Occafion required him to fhew 
 his Courage, and to ad his Part, as at Gilley-cranky^ 
 Crofndale, and Sheriff-Moor^ he flill fhewed his 
 Face, but never drew his Sword, for his People are 
 expert at nothing more than Stealing and publick 
 Robberies j for at Perth they made a good Hand in 
 this way of Bufinefs among the Country People, 
 ajid others of their own Party. 
 
 The Laird of Mac-Intojh looo Men, all with 
 their Chief againfl the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. Moft of this Clan were in England^ and 
 others were pofted ojff Invernefs. 
 
 The Laird of Mac-Gregor 500 Men, moft with 
 their Chief againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. This Clan did nothing worth mention- 
 ing at Sheriff- Moor, 
 
 The Laird of Strowen Robertfon 500 Men, all 
 with their Chief againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Laird of Mac-Pherfon 500 Men, all with, 
 their Chief againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion, This Clan is part of the Mackintosh 
 Family. 
 
 Sir Evan Cameron looo Men, moft, with their 
 Chief, againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. This Knight is fo old and infirm, that he: 
 could not lead his Vaffals to the Field, but were 
 commanded by his Son, who returning home after 
 the Battle of Dimblain, feemingly concealed the 
 Action from the old Gentleman ; but he having 
 fome Intelligence thereof, enquired narrowly for a> 
 juft Account i he found by that, that his Vafials- 
 did not behave according to their former Bravery, 
 whixrh made him anfwer thus : Son, I can call to 
 
 mind 
 
[ 198 3 
 
 mind fmcc the Camerons were not fo numerous aS 
 they are at this Day, but I find by your Ac^ 
 count, that the older they grow the more Cow- 
 ardice for in Oliver*^ Days^ your Grandfather with 
 his Men could fight double their Number, as I 
 right well remember ; for it is reported, that when 
 Oliver had built a Fort, to carb the Highlanders at 
 Inverlochy, that the Camerons did annoy them 
 ftrangely, beating and purfuing them whenever they 
 came out into the Country, to the very Walls of 
 their Garifon. And it is recorded of this Sir Evan 
 Cameron of Locheal, that following his Enemy too 
 far, one of diverts Men vanquifli*d him, being 
 then young, and having thrown him upon the 
 Ground, refufed to grant him Quarter, and endea- 
 vouring to draw his Bajonet to ftab his Captive, 
 the vanquifli'd found an odd way to deliver himfelf ; 
 for with a fierce Spring he raifed his Body, till he 
 caught hold of his Conqueror by the Throat with 
 his Teeth, and pulled it out •, fo that the other im- 
 mediately died, and young Locheal return*d home. 
 He is a Gentleman, tho* old, of a found Judg- 
 ment, and yet very healthful and ftrong in Confti- 
 tution. 
 
 Sir John Mac- Lean i coo Men, moft with their 
 Chief againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. 
 
 The Laird of Grant looo Men, all with their 
 Chief for the Government. This Clan belongs to 
 a very loyal Gendeman, who himfelf is very gallant 
 and brave ; but his Followers at Sheriff-Moor did 
 not ad the part of Fighting, fo well as that Family 
 has done upon other Occafions. 
 
 The Taird of Appin 300 Men, all with their 
 Chief againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. Thefe Men did not behave fo well as was 
 expe(5led. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Laird of Mac-Leod looo Men, moft with 
 their Chief, who is a Minor and Neutral. 
 
 The Laird of Mac-Kenning 200 Men, all with 
 their Chief againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 The Laird of Glenco 100 Men, all with their 
 Chief againft the Government, and in the Rebel- 
 lion. 
 
 The Laird of Glenmonjlon 100 Men, all with 
 their Chief againft the Government, and in the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 Mac-Neil of Barra 120 Men. 
 • Chrifolme of Straglafs 100 Men, with their Chief, 
 in the Rebellion. 
 
 Note, That all the Chiefs in Scotland, m Chiefs 
 of Clans, properly fo fpeaking, whether Noble- 
 men or Genllefnen ; hut co7nmonly the laji only 
 are called the Clans, and particularly thofe ff 
 them who live in the North and Weft Highlands 
 and Ifles, 
 
 O 
 
 APPEN- 
 
I ] 
 
 APPEN D IX. 
 
 7he Earl of Mar's yournaly Printed 
 Paris, (as referrd to Page 190 J 
 
 SIR, 
 
 YOU feem furprIsM at the fudden Change 
 our Affairs here have taken, from what 
 you expelled by the Accounts you had 
 from fome of our Friends at Edinhurgh^ 
 before our leaving Perth ; and even after we were 
 gone from thence : I will therefore, for your Sa- 
 tisfadion, give you a true Account of that whole 
 Matter. 
 
 It is plain enough, that It was our BuHnefs to 
 reprefent our Affairs then to the Publick, to be in 
 jfuch a Pofture as might moft encourage our Friends 
 every where, and difcourage our Enemies, and flop 
 them from marching againft us until we were in a 
 better Condition to receive them ; which we had 
 reafon to exped foon to be, by our Friends joining 
 us, as they daily promis'd to do, and until we 
 fliould receive the Money, Arms, and Ammuni- 
 tion we were every Day expedling, as we had been 
 for a long Time. 
 
 But that Time being now over, I may freely 
 own to you, and ii*s fit you Ihould know? that a 
 O 2 Month 
 
C 202 3 
 
 Month before the Chevalier landed, the Refolution 
 was taken of abandoning Perth, as foon as the 
 Enemy fliould march againft it : And tho' this Re- 
 folution was known to a good Number in our Army, 
 yet the Secret was fo well kept, that it never came 
 to the Publick ; fo that the Enemy believing that 
 we would ftand our Ground, thought themfelves 
 obliged to delay their March for a long time, until 
 they had made great Preparations of Artillery, &c. 
 as if they had been going to befiege a fortified 
 Town : ' But in reality, our Condition was then 
 fuch, as obliged us to take that Refolution, having 
 neither a fufficient Number of Men, Ammuriition, 
 nor Arms. 
 
 Upon the Chevalier's, Arrival, we expefted that 
 our Friends would then have certainly joined us ; 
 both thofe who had formerly been with us and were 
 gone Home, and thofe who before had given, the^ 
 Chevalier not being come, as the only Reafon of 
 their not joining the Army ; and alfo that thofe, to 
 whom the reducing of Invernefs, the Lord Suther- 
 land, and thofe with him was committed, would 
 iiave vigoroufly performed that Service, and then 
 have joined us and we had no reafon to doubt, but 
 Money, Ammunition, and Arms would immedi- 
 ately be fent after the Chevalier. 
 
 But, to our great Misfortune, we were dif- 
 appointed in all thofe our Hopes, though never fa 
 well grounded in Appearance. 
 
 The Rigor of the Seafon, and the great Fall 
 of the Snow on the Hills, kept in fome Meafure 
 the reft of the Highlanders from joining us. Moft 
 of thofe who before h^d ejfcufed themfelves upon 
 the Chevalier*s not being come, kept ftill at home, 
 now that he was eome,"waiting perhaps to fee how 
 his Affairs were like to fucceed. Thofe employed 
 for reducing of Invernep, were fo far from afting 
 with Vigor, that they made, what they called it, a 
 
 / CeffatioA 
 
[ 203 ] 
 
 teffatlon of Arms with the Enemy. Some Gold 
 was fent to us in Lingo\ ; but the Ship in which iC 
 came was Stranded, and the Gold loll. Several 
 Ships came with Officers, hi\t neither Arms nor 
 Animunition in any of them : So that our Condi- 
 tion after the Chevalier'?, Arrival, was no ways bet- 
 tered, except by the new Life his PrcfenCe gave tO 
 the fmali Number we at that time had got together j 
 Even in that weak Condition, the Chevalier would 
 o-ladly have maintained Perth, or ventuiM a Battle ; 
 but when the Enemy with all their great Prepara- 
 tions, and an Army of above 8000 effedive regUlai^ 
 troops were adually in march, and advanced nea^ 
 to the Place, it was found impradicable to defend 
 the Town, and unadvifeable to enter into a Battle 
 with a fmall Number of Men^that were in it, for 
 a great many Reafons too long to be here mentioned. 
 But in fliort, we had not above 4000 both Horfe 
 and Foot and of thefe, for want of Arms, and foi* 
 other Reafons, not above 2500 to be rely*d upon 
 as good fighting Men. The Town is little better 
 than an open Village at any Time ; aiui at this, 
 the River on one fide, and a kind of FoflTe or Ditch 
 ou the other, were frozen up •, fc that it was eafy 
 to be entred on all Quarters. The long continued 
 Froil had kept the Mills from going •, fo that there 
 was not above two Days Provifions in the Town. 
 The Enemy being then in Pofieffion of the molt pare 
 of Fife, where the Coal-pits are, there were nd 
 Coals to be got i and Wood being fcarce in the 
 Country, there happened to be almoft no Fuel at 
 nil. Befides this, the Highlanders are not ufed to 
 defend Towns-, nor had they wherewithal to de- 
 fend this. 
 
 On the other hand, to have gone out to fight the 
 Enemy, when there was no advantageous Poll or 
 Pafs to be defended, had been expofing our Men to 
 vifible Deftruaion, the Enemy being provided with 
 
 O 3 every 
 
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 every thing, and thrice our Number of fighting 
 Men, might have furrounded us on all Sides, and 
 prevented all Poffibility of Retreat. AJl this put 
 us into an abfolute Neceflity of leaving Perth^ and 
 retiring Northwards, which we did in good Order, 
 and came in two Days to Montrofe and Briechin, 
 Neither of thefe Places are tenable, tho* we had 
 been provided, as we were not, with a fufficient 
 Number of Men, Ammunition, and Provifions. 
 But Montrofe being a good Harbour, where we ex- 
 pe6ted our Succours from abroad, we were unwil- 
 ling to quit it, fo long as we could remain fafe in 
 it. We thought indeed, that the Enemy would 
 have made a Halt at Perth, and not have marched 
 fo quickly after us, as we foon found they did, 
 they being within a few Miles of us before we had 
 certain Intelligence of it, tho' great Pains had been 
 taken to be informed of their Motions. The Earl 
 of Panmure^ not being recovered of the fevere 
 Wounds he had received at the Battle of Sheriff- 
 Moor, was not in a Condition to march along with 
 the Army, which otherwife he would have done ; 
 upon which the Chevalier advis'd him, as he pafs'd 
 Dundee, to endeavour to get off in the firft Ship 
 he could find and by Accident finding a litdc 
 Bark at Arhoth, went off in it for France. 
 
 Before this Time, feveral People had very feri- 
 oufly reprefented to the Chevalier, the deplorable 
 Circumftances in which his Affairs now were on all 
 Sides 5 that being over-power'd in Scotland, no Ap- 
 pearance of any Rifmg in England, nor any News 
 ef the Succours he expefted fi*om abroad ; he had 
 no Courfe at prefent to take, that was confiffent 
 with what he owed to his People in general, to 
 thofe who had taken Arms for him in particular, 
 and to himfelf upon their Account, but by retiring 
 beyond Sea, to preferve himfelf for a better Occa- 
 
 fioii 
 
[205 1 
 
 fion of averting his own Right, and reftoring thenl 
 to their ancient Liberties. r , • ^ 
 
 It was indeed hard to bring him to think of this % 
 but thofe about him found it now high time to prefs 
 the Matter more than ever, the Enemy being within 
 three Miles upon their March towards us. They 
 therefore again reprefentcd to him the Impoffibihty; 
 of making a Stand any where, till they fhould come 
 to the moft inacceffible Places of the Mountains^ 
 where in that Seafon of the Year, there being fq 
 much Snow on the Ground, there could be no 
 Subfiftance for any Body of Men together, and 
 where no Succour could come to them : That when 
 his n-nall Army was divided in leffer Bodies, they 
 could, not avoid being cut off by the Enemies 
 Troops, who would then be Mafter of all the Low 
 Countries, and efpecially by the Garifons they had 
 m Inverlochv and Invernefs, which they would rein- 
 force : That as long as they knew he was in the 
 Kingdom, they would purfue him, even with the 
 Hazard of their whole Army, his Perfon being the 
 chief Objea of their Purfuit, as his Deftrudiou 
 
 was the only thing tliat could fecure their U n i 
 
 whereas, if he were gone off, they would not pur- 
 fue with that Eagernefs, nor would they find their 
 Account in harafllng their Army in the Snow and 
 exceffive Cold of the Mountains, to purfue the 
 fcatter'd Remains of the Loyal Party, who might 
 Ibulk in the Hills, till Providence fhould open 
 Way for their Relief, or that they could obtain. 
 Terms from the Government. That his Perfon 
 being with them, would defeat even thefe fainj: 
 Hopes and that in ftiort, whilft he was in the 
 Kingdom, they could never exped any Terms of 
 Capitulation, but by abandoning him, or giving 
 him up ; which rather than ever confent to, they 
 would be all to the laft Man cut in Pieces. 
 
 Tho* 
 
[ 206 ] 
 
 Tho* the Chevalier was ftill extremely unwilling 
 to leave his Loyal People, who had facrific'd their 
 All with fo much Zeal and Alacrity for his Service ; 
 yet when he confider'd, that as Things .then fl-ood, 
 his Prefence, far from being a Help and Support 
 to them, would rather be an Occafion of haftening 
 their Ruin, he was fenfibly touched to find himfelf, 
 for their Sakes, under a Neceflity of leaving them ; 
 there was no anfwering their Reafons, nor any Time 
 to be lofti the Danger increafing every Moment. 
 He therefore at laft told them, that he was forry to 
 find himfelf obliged to confent to what they defired 
 of him ; and I dare fay, no Confent he ever gave, 
 was fo uneafy to him as this was. 
 
 In the mean time, frefh Alarms coming of the 
 Enemy's approaching, Orders were given for the 
 Army's marching towards Aberdeen, and the Refo- 
 lution was taken for his going off" in the Evening. 
 It happen'd very providentially, that there was juif 
 ready in the Harbour a fmall Ship, that had been 
 defigned to carry a Gentleman he was then to have 
 fent to a Foreign Court. This Ship was now pitch'd 
 upon to tranfport him ; fhe was but a fmall one, 
 and could carry but a few PafTengers ; and there- 
 fore to avoid Confufion, he himfelf thought fit to 
 name thofe who fhould attend him. The Earl of 
 M^rwho was the firft nam'd, made Difficulty, and 
 begg'd he might be left behind ; but the Chevalier 
 being pofitive for his going, and telling him, that 
 in a great meafure there wpre the fame Reafons for 
 his going as for his own that his Friends would 
 more eafily get Terms without him than with him ; 
 and that as Things now flood, he could be no 
 longer of any ufe to them in that Country, he fub- 
 mitted. 
 
 The Chevalier likewife ordered the Marquis of 
 Drummond to go along with him : This Lord was 
 then lame by a Fall from his Horfc, and not in a 
 
 Condi- 
 
[ ] 
 
 Condition to follow the Army, and was one of the 
 four with the Earl of Mar^ Lord Tullibardine, and 
 Lord Litbgow, againft whom there was then a Bill 
 of Attainder paffing. The Chevalier would have 
 willingly carried with him the other two Lords but 
 it, happen'd that they were both then at a Diftance ; 
 Lord 'J'ullikirdine at Briechin with a part of the Foot, 
 and Lord Lilhgow at Bervie with the Horfe. Lord 
 Marifchal, Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber, was al- 
 fo ordered to go, though he feem'd very defirous 
 to ftay and ffiare in the Fate of his Countrymen. 
 Lieutenant-General Sheldon, Vice- Chamberlain, had 
 the fame Orders as had alfo Colonel Clephan who 
 had left the Enemy. Lord Edward Drummond^ 
 who was alfo Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber, hap- 
 pen'd to be with Lord Tinmouth at five Miles di- 
 ftance, and fo could not go with the Chevalier, as 
 he intended they both fhould ; but he wrote to 
 them to follow in a fmall Ship that was then in 
 the Harbour but the Mafter of this Ship was 
 frighten'd, and went away without carrying any 
 Body. 
 
 T\\t Chevalier t\\tn order'd a Commifllon to be 
 drawn for Lieutenant-General Gordon to Command 
 in Chief, with all necefiary Powers inferted ; and 
 particularly one, to Treat and Capitulate with the 
 Enemy : He left alfo the faid General the Reafons 
 of his leaving this Kingdom, and all the Money 
 that was in the Paymafter's Hands, or that he had 
 himfelf, (fave a fmall Sum for defraying his owa 
 and Company's Charges) and left Orders for a Sum 
 of Money (if there fhould be any left after paying the 
 Army) to be given to the poor People who fuffer'd 
 by the Burning of Auchlerarder, and fome Villages 
 aoout it, which had been thought necclTary to be 
 done, to .prevent the Enemy's March, tho' very 
 much againft his Inclination; which made him delay 
 from time to tiine, .until the Enemy was ajftually 
 
 oa 
 
[ 208 ] 
 
 6n their March ; and the Chevalier left a Letter with 
 General Gordon for my Lord Argyle, to be deiiver'd 
 when the faid Money fhould be given, defiring that 
 it Ihould be diftributed accordingly. 
 
 About Nine o'Clock the Chevdier went on Board 
 the Ship, which was alpout a Mile at Sea Lord 
 Marifchal and Colonel Clephan came fome time after 
 to the Shore, but by an Accident found no Boat, 
 and fo could not go off ; tho* as the Boat-men, who 
 carried the Chevalier^ afllire us, he ftay'd for them 
 till near Eleven o'Clock, but coad flay no longer, 
 becaufe of the nine Men of War that were cruifing 
 thereabouts ; and it was great good Luck that the 
 Ship, having ftay'd fo long, got out of their Reach 
 before it was Day-light. 
 
 As foon as the Chevalier parted, we marched^ 
 and we are now a good way advmced towards the 
 Highlands, for there was no Stand could be made 
 at Aberdeen nor could we think of going to Inver- 
 nefs, that being ftill in the Enemy's Hands. Some 
 went to Peterhead^ and thought to have got off in 
 a Ship they found there but we hear they were 
 foon forc'd back'd by a Man of \V ar ; fo it's like 
 they may join us again, if they are not intercepted 
 by the Enemy. 
 
 1 muft here add one Thing, which however in- 
 credible it may appear, is, to our Coft, but too 
 true and that is. That from the Time the Earl 
 of Mar fet up the Chevalier's Standard to this Day, 
 we never received from Abroad th; leaft Supply of 
 Arms and Ammunition of any Kiad : Tho' it was 
 notorious in itfelf, and well known, both to Friends 
 and Enemies, that this was what fr3m the Beginning 
 we mainly wanted ; and as fuch, i: was infifted up- 
 on by the Earl of Mar, in all the Letters he writ, 
 and by all the Meffengers he fent to the other Side. 
 Several Ships came with Officers, and fome fmall 
 Sums of Money, after the Battle of Uaeriff-Moor and 
 
 three 
 
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 three or four Ships more came after the Chevalier'^ 
 Arrival but even when he was with us in Perfon, 
 no Powder was fent, nor a Sword nor Mufquet i 
 So that when we march'd from Perth, we had not 
 300 Weight of Powder for the whole Army nor 
 ftiould we have wanted Men, had we had Arms to 
 put in their Hands. How the main Point came to 
 be fo entirely neglected by thofe who had the 
 Managmcnt of the Chevnlier^s Affairs in their Hands 
 on the other Side, is yet a Myftery to us j and it 
 furprizes the more, that thofe who came lately ovef 
 alTure us, that both Arms and Ammunition might 
 have been gotten from private Hands, without 
 having the Obligation to any Foreign Prince. So 
 whether this unaccountable OmifTion proceeded from 
 mere Negligence, want of Money, or from a Jea- 
 loufy in fome, who were, perhaps, unwilling that 
 we fhould be the Inftruments of this great Work, 
 and that it fliould fucceed in our Hands, or for 
 fome other By-reafons, is what Time may dif- 
 cover. 
 
 Thus I have given you true Matter of Fa6t,' 
 and a fincere Account of our unfortunate Condition. 
 Whatever may now be our Fate, we have ftill one: 
 folid Ground of Comfort, that the Chevalier hath 
 . (as we hope) got fafe out of the Reach of his E-. 
 nemies ; for in the Safety of his Perfon is all ouf 
 Hopes of Relief*, and we look on him as the In- 
 ftrument referved by God, (and he now feems the 
 only one in the ordinary Courfe of Providence) 
 to refcue thefe Nations in due Time from their 
 Oppreffion, and the lawlefs Dominion of £ — — . 
 
 Now if we look back a little, and confider our 
 Affairs from the Beginning of this laft Attempt, 
 I believe it will be found that no Nation in our 
 Circumflances, and fo deilitute of all kind of Suc- 
 cour from Abroad, ever made fo brave a Struggle 
 for reftoi in g. their Prince and Country to their juft 
 
 Rights. 
 
[ 210 ] 
 
 Rights. And when it comes to be known to ths 
 World, (as fome tinie or other it may) what En- 
 couragements there were at Home and Abroad, rea- 
 fonably to make us exped: and hope for Succefs in 
 this great, good, and neceffary Work ; it will ap- 
 pear no chimerical, rafh, or ill-grounded Under- 
 taking ; and it's not proving Succefsful, plainly ap- 
 pears, by what has been already faid, and what fol- 
 lows, is not owing to the Chevalier y or his faithful 
 Friends on this Side, 
 
 When the Earl of Mar^ by the Chevalierh Com- 
 mand, came down to Scotland^ he found the Peo- 
 ple there more forward to take Arms, than his 
 Inftrudions allowed him to confent to ; and it was 
 not without Difficulty that we could allay their firft 
 Heat. But the Chevalier not going into England, 
 nor the Duke of Berwick coming to Scotland, as 
 was generally expedled, abated very much of that 
 Forwardnefs fo that when the Government fum- 
 mon*d thofe they fufpedled to appear and give Bail 
 for their good Behaviour, many of them feem'd in- 
 clin'd to comply. The Earl of Mar, in Purfuance 
 of his Inllrudtions, found it then high time for pre- 
 venting this Step, to appear openly ; and it was not 
 without Difficulty that he could perfuade fome to 
 join with him, they apprehending great Uncertainty 
 of Succefs in the Affair, by no Account being 
 come of the Chevalier, or the Duke of Berwick*i 
 Arrival, nor of Money, Arms, Ammunition, or 
 Officers, tho' others were all along very forward. 
 Upon the Refolution of taking Arms, he fent a 
 Gentleman to give the Chevalier an Account of it. 
 - It was near a Month after the Earl of Mar fet up 
 the Standard before he could produce a CommifTion ; 
 and it is no fmall Proof of the Peoples Zeal for their 
 pountry, that fo great a Number followed his Ad- 
 vice and obey'd his Orders before he could produce 
 one. It muft tho' be own'd, and it is the lefs to be 
 
 wonder'd 
 
[ 211 1 
 
 wonder'd at, that his Authority being thus preca- 
 rious , fome were not fo punctual in joining him, 
 and others perform'd not lb efFedlually the Service 
 they were fent upon which had they done, not only 
 Scotla?id, but even Part of England, had been redu- 
 ced to the Chevalier'^ Obedience before the Govern- 
 ment had been in a Condition to make head againfl: 
 us. But as it was, moftof thofe v/ho had promifed, 
 and fome who had not, join'd the Chevalier's Stan- 
 dard at Perth about the End of O^oher ; at which 
 Time the Earl of Mar fent two Gentlemen to give 
 the Chevalier an Account of the Condition they were 
 in, of what they had, and what they wanted, and 
 to haften his own , the Duke of Ormondi's , and the 
 Duke of Berwick's Coming into Britain. 
 
 About this Time there was a Rifmg of fome No- 
 blemen and Gentlemen in the South of Scotland ^ 
 who marching over the Borders, were join'd by fome 
 in the North of England and they all together 
 marching back into Scotland, the Earl of Mar fent 
 over the Firth of Forth 1 500 Foot to join them. 
 This occafion'd the Duke oiArgyleh leaving Stirling, 
 and going with a Part of his Army to Edinburgh 
 Now , had the Scots and Englijh Horfe , who were 
 then in the South of Scotland, come and join'd the 
 1500 Foot, as was expetfbed •, had the Highland 
 Clans perform'd as they promifed the Service they 
 were lent upon in Argylejhire, and march'd towards 
 GlafgGw as the Earl of Mar march'd towards Stir- 
 ling, he had then given a good Account of the Go- 
 vernment's Army, the Troops from Ireland not ha- 
 ving yet join'd them, nor could they have join'd 
 them afterwards. But all this failing by fome crofs 
 Accidents , Lord Argyle returned with that Part of 
 his Army to Stirling and the Earl of Mar could 
 not, with the Men he then had, advance farther 
 than Dumhlain ; and for want of Provifions there, 
 was foon after obliged to return to Perth. 
 
 But 
 
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 But immediately after we had got Provifions, and 
 that the Clans and my Lord Seaforth had join'd us, 
 we marched again towards the Enemy ; and not- 
 withftanding the many Difficulties the Earl of Mar 
 had upon that Occafion with fome of our own Peo- 
 ple, he gave the Enemy Battel ; and, as you faw in 
 our printed Account of it, had not our Left Wing 
 given way, which was occafion'd by Miftake of 
 Orders and Scarcity of experienc'd Officers, that 
 being compofed of as good Men, and march'd as 
 chearfully up to the Field of Battel as the other, our 
 Vidory had been compleat ; and as it was, the Ene- 
 my, who was advanced on this fide the River, was 
 forced to retire back to Stirling. 
 
 Amongft many good Qualities, the Highlanders 
 have one unlucky Cuftom, not eafy to be reformed-, 
 which is, that generally after an A<5llon they return 
 Home. Accordingly a great many went off after 
 the late Battel of Sheriff-Moor ; fo that the Earl of 
 Mar not being in a Condition to purfue the Ad- 
 vantage he had by it, was forc'd to return to Perthy 
 waiting there, not without Impatience, both for the 
 Return of the Highlanders, and for Money, Arms 
 3.nd Ammunition , he had fo often afk*d , and ftill 
 expefted from Abroad. But the Highlanders hear^ 
 ing nothing of the Chevalier^ or the Duke of Ber~ 
 wick's Coming, nor of the Supplies, did not return 
 to the Army, as they had promifed. And the Gen- 
 tlemen of the Army, who had been long from 
 Home, living ftill at their own Charge, which they 
 could not well longer fupport, went alfo moftly 
 Home, fome without Leave, and others after a 
 Leave, which the Earl of Mar faw well enough 
 would be to no purpofe to refufe. Some indeed 
 never thought of quitting the Army, and others 
 return'd foon to it ; but our Number was never 
 again near fo great as it had been before the Battel. 
 About this Time we had the News of the fatal 
 
 Affiiir 
 
[ 213 ] 
 
 Affair at Prefton, which was no fmall Difcouragq- 
 nient to the Army fo that fonr^e who had beent 
 cabalHng privately before, begj^n then to fpeak 
 openly of capitulating with the finemy, and found 
 others more eafy to join with them. 
 
 We had at the fame Tin^e another Piece of bad 
 News i which was, That Simon Frazer of Beauford 
 (by foiTie call'd Lord Lovat) had join'd Lord Su- 
 therland ; and that they, with the Help of fome 
 other difaffeded People thereabouts, had retaken 
 Invernefs, Upon this News, moft of the Name of 
 Frazer^ who had join'd the Chevalier's, Army with 
 Frazerdale^ went now away, and join'd Beauford^ 
 or Lord Lovat,, their Chief. 
 
 . This obdig'd the Earl of Mar to fend Lord Sea- 
 forth North to get his Men together, who had 
 moftly return'd Home after the Battel, and in Con.- 
 jun£lion with the Chevalier'^ Friends in that Coun- 
 try, to endeavour to recover Invernefs. 
 
 In the mean time, thofe who w^ere for capitulating 
 with the Enemy, prefled the Earl of Mar fo hard 
 to confent to it , that to prevent fome Peoples ma- 
 king private feparate Treaties, which he found they 
 were about, he was at laft forc'd to comply fo far 
 with them, as to fend a MelTage from the whole 
 Army to my Lord Argyle^ to know if he had Power 
 to treat with them ? That Lord return'd with great 
 Civility this Anfwer : ^hat he had no fufficient Pow- 
 er to treat with them in a Body, hut that he would 
 write to Court upon the Suhje^. To which it was 
 reply'd 'That when he Jhoidd let the?n know he had 
 fufficient Power, they then woidd make their Propojitiom. 
 By which the Affair was put off at that time ; and we 
 •were fmce informed, that the Lord Argyle never re- 
 ceived thofe Powers ; and thatevHn his former Power, 
 which he fent up to be enlarged, were never returned 
 to him. 
 
 Much 
 
[ 214 ] 
 
 Much about this time, the Marquis of Huntley ha- 
 ving, for fome time, prefs'd his going home with his 
 Horfe, the Earl of Mar confented to it, and gave 
 him a Commiffion, in Conjundion with my Lord 
 Seaforth, for reducing of Invernefs^ and thofe who 
 oppos'd the Chevalier's Intereft in that Country, 
 which we then hop'd would be foon done. 
 
 After this, fome, though but few, were difco- 
 vered to have private Dealings with the Enemy ; 
 and fome others went home, and never returned to 
 the Army \ but a good Number of the Noblemen 
 and Gentlemen, and all the Heads of the Clans, ftill 
 remained with the Army at Perth. 
 
 We had, about this time, the long-wifh'd for 
 News of the Chevalier's being Landed ; and that 
 put an End, for the prefent, to any farther talking 
 of Capitulations. 
 
 I have now given you a true, and, I hope, fi- 
 tisfadory Account of the Condition we have been in, 
 ever fmce our firfl: taking Arms ; of the bad Condi- 
 tion in which the Chevalier found us at his Arrival ; 
 and of the Reafons that oblig'd him at laft to leave 
 us. 
 
 There remains yet to anfwer one Queftion, which 
 you may naturally afk, as moft People do, on this 
 Subjed ; and that is, Why the Chevalier delayed 
 his Coming fo long ? 
 
 To anfwer this Queftion to your Satisfadion, I 
 muft tell you. That I have what 1 fhall here relate, 
 from Perfons of unqueftionablc Veracity, who were 
 then upon the Place, Eye and Ear Witnefles of 
 what pafs'd ; and fo you may fafely rely upon it. 
 
 You have certainly heard, what was generally 
 faid of the Chevalier^ s Sifter's IncHnations towards 
 him, whilft ftie was in Poffeffion of his Throne. 
 But whatever there was of Truth in that, what I am 
 well aflured of is, that he was at laft fo litjde fatis- 
 fied with what was faid to hini from thence, that he 
 
 was. 
 
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 was fully refolved, whilft fhe was yet alive, W hivQ 
 gone into Scotland ; and, in order to that, had al* 
 ready prepared a Declaration, or Manifefto, to have 
 been there publilhed upon his Arrival. How he 
 was hinder'd from putting this Defign in Execution 
 by fome real Friends, that were themfelves impos'd 
 upon, and by other precended Friends, who were 
 at the Bottom real Enemies, is a Myftery which 
 Time may difcover. 
 
 Upon the firft News of his Sifter's Death, he 
 immediately took Poft, refolved to endeavour, at 
 any Rate, to get into fome Part of his Dominions 3 
 but was ftopp'd by thofe who had Power to do it 
 effeftually. Being then forc'd back to Lorain, he 
 made and publifhed his Proteftation, which it'a 
 likely you have feen, and which, I can aflure you^ 
 was drawn entirely by himfelf. 
 
 From that Time, as before, he had nothing in 
 his Thoughts, but how and when he could aiTert his 
 own Right, and deliver his People. He faw little 
 Ground to hope for Succour from any foreign Prince, 
 and had only the Affections of his People, and 
 the Advice of his Friends on this Side of the Water, 
 to rely upon. Their Intereft feemed now more than 
 ever linked to his ; and they being upon the Place, 
 and confequcntly beft able to judge of the fittefb 
 time for his coming to theni, it muft be allow'd* 
 that it has been no ways prudent nor advifeable irt 
 him, to ad: contrary to their Opinion : And yet it ^ 
 is nioft certain, that it was only by following their * 
 Advice, contrary to his own Judgment and Incli- 
 nation, that fo much time was loft. Some of them 
 in England infifted upon having a certain Number of 
 Regular Troops to make Head at firft, without 
 which, they faid, nothing was to be attempted 5 
 and though he fent them Word over and over, . 
 That-, after all the Endeavours he could ufe, he 
 found it abfolutely impoflible to obtain any Troops s 
 
 P yee 
 
[ 2t6 ] 
 
 yet they infifted for feveral Months in this Opinion, 
 and ,by that Means the mod favourable Time he 
 ever had, was loft. Other Friends there pretended, 
 that the Difpofitions of the People would ftill grow- 
 more favourable tpwards him ; and that there was 
 no Danger, but Advantage, by delaying. 
 
 Thus, though he had feveral times fixed a Day 
 for his Departure, he was ftill forced to delay, that 
 he might not act contrary to the Advice of his 
 Friends ; and at another time, becaufe he found 
 that his Enemies had difcover'd his Defign, and 
 taken infallible Meafures to intercept him. But as 
 foon as his Friends began to fee, and own the Mi- 
 ftakes they had been in, he, without any regard to 
 the many Dangers he had to go through, fet out 
 from Commercy the 28 th of OMer^ and went incog- 
 mio through a great Part of France^ to the Coaft of 
 Britany ; and to avoid falling into the Hands of 
 Many, who were plac'd upon the common Road to 
 intercept him, he was obliged to crofs the Country 
 through Bye-ways, with only three People with 
 him. His Defign was to go to England, if thjngs 
 appeared favourable there ; or, if they did not, to 
 go to Scotland. 
 
 When he arrived at St. Malays, he found the 
 Duke of Or?nond returned from the Coaft of Eng- 
 Ifind, to. which he had gone fome Days before, in 
 hopes to have found Friends ready to join him ; 
 but that having failed, by fome Accidents of Difco- 
 veries, he was forced to return. Upon this he 
 refolved to go into Scotland i and it not being 
 tliought fafe for him to go through the Britijh Chan- 
 nel, he had been advis'd to go round Ireland-, and, 
 by a MelTage from his Friends in Scotland, it was 
 proposed to him to Land at Bunftaffnage, which was 
 at that time in their Pofleftion ; but foon after the 
 Enemy came to be Mafters of it, by the Clans not 
 performing what they were charg*d with in Argyle- 
 
[217 ] 
 
 Jhire^ as is afor mentioned. His Friends immediatelj^ 
 informed him of this Change, by a lecond Meffage } 
 30d this confirm'd him in the Refolution he had 
 himfelf before taken, of changing all his Meafures, 
 and, in place of taking that long, tedious Way, 
 which was indeed, the fafeft, to take a much fliorterj 
 though a more dangerous Way for being intercepted 
 by the Enemies Ships ; he fent therefore immediates 
 ]y to prepare a fmall Ship privately for him at I>un>r 
 kirk', which was accordingly done, though not 
 without Difficulty. 
 
 He was now a fecond time oblig'd to traverfe a 
 great Part of France, and that on Horfeback, ia 
 the very coldeft time of this hard and fevere Winter 5 
 expofed to greater Danger than in the Forih^ from 
 the greater Number of thofe who lay in wait for him 
 on all the great Roads., which obliged him to travel 
 by unfrequented Routs, where there was Accom- 
 modation bad enough ; and yet all this time, in that 
 terrible Cold, he never had the leaft Ailment or 
 Indifpofition. 
 
 It was about the Middle of JD^rmJ^r (our Stije) 
 before he could reach Dunkirk ; he was there in- 
 form'd, that there was a Man of War then lyingtn 
 that very Road and that there were a great many 
 more cruizing on the Coaft of France, England, and 
 Scotland^ all of them in wait for him ; but he,, with- 
 out any regard to thefe Dangers, went immediately 
 on Board this fmall Ship with only three Servants, 
 and, conduced by good Providence, arrived fafe at 
 Peterhead^ where he Landed the 2 2d of December 
 (old Style). 
 
 Having, I hope, now fully fatisfied your Cu- 
 riofity, I have only to add. That though it hath 
 pleafed God to permit, that this Attempt, though 
 i)ever fo juft, had not the wifh*d-for Succefs ; we 
 •have ftill reaped by it one great Advantage, which 
 is. That we have fecn with our own Eyes, and per- 
 
 p 2. fonally 
 
[ 2l8 ] 
 
 fdnally known our lawful S n; and, to our 
 
 unfpeakable Satisfaaion, difcover'd in him all the 
 great and good Qualities that are neceffary for 
 making a People every-way happy. 
 
 The time may, and I hope will yet come, when 
 God, in his Mercy, will open the Eyes, and turn 
 the Hearts of thefe Nations to a Senfe of their 
 Duty, and not permit fo accomplifh'd a Perfon to 
 be always unfortunate : But however it fhall pleafe 
 Providence to difpofe of him, this I can affure 
 you, ind you may rely upon it, that as his Right 
 is indefeafible, he is firmly refolved, by the Help 
 of Almighty God, to affert it, whenever he finds a 
 fit Opportunity, and never to depart from it, but 
 with his Life. 
 
 . The Lord MAR\ Letter to 
 
 SIR, 
 
 .'J^ H E tnclofed Relation having come to my Hands 
 ftnce I came to this Country and havings upon 
 Perufaly found it very exaEl in Matters of Fa5i ; / 
 thought you would he glad to fee it, which makes me 
 fend it to you ; and, if you think fit, you may fhew it 
 to your Friends where you are. 
 
 I am, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your moft humble Servant, 
 Sic fuh. MAR. 
 
 I could 
 
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 I could not conveniently infcrt the follbwing Par-- 
 ticulars in the former Part of this Hiftory but to 
 be more particular in relating the federal Confpira* 
 cies of His Majefty*s fecret Enemies, I (hall here 
 give my Reader a diftinft Account of an early con- 
 certed Defign to furprize Brijiol^ a City ftrong, 
 populous, ftored with all manner of Provifions ; 
 being the fecond City in Great- Brit ain, famous for 
 Trade and Riches. 
 
 Upon Information, that the DifafFe6led had laid 
 a Defign to furprize the Place, and make it a Ma-, 
 gazine of Arms, the Earl of Berkley, Lord- Lieute- 
 nant and Governor of that City and County, re- 
 paired thither with all Speed towards the End of 
 September 17 15, and with unwearied Application 
 and Diligence, took all the neceffary Meafures and 
 Precautions for the Security of that important Town. 
 Several Perfons, under Pretence of being Membera 
 of the Royal Society, carried on Treafonable Dc- 
 figns, were fecured, amongft them, one Mr. Hart 
 a Merchant, who was charged for having gathered 
 great Quantities of Warlike Stores for the Ufe of the 
 Difaffeded. Befides part of Lumlefs Regiment of 
 Horfe, and two Battalions of Stanwlx and Pocock, 
 who were already in Briftoly Colonel Chudleigh's 
 Regiment of Foot was ordered to March thither, 
 which they did about the Beginning of 05loher ; at 
 the fame time the Lord Windfor's Regiment of 
 Horfe, and Rich*s Dragoons, under the Command 
 of Major- General Wade marched to Batb, which 
 Place was both the Rendezvous, and one of the 
 Arfenals of the Confpirators, who having recovered 
 their firft Alarm, and returned to Bath, were fecu- 
 red, with about 200 Horfes. Upon ftrid Search, 
 the King's Officers found and feized Eleven Chefts. 
 of Fire- Arms, a Hogfliead full of Balket-hilted 
 Swords, and another of Cartouches, and three. 
 
 P 3 Pieces 
 
[ 2 20 ] 
 
 Pieces of Cannon, one Mortar, and Molds to Cafl 
 Cannon, which had been hid in the Ground. 
 
 Mr. Secretary Stanhope having written a Letter to 
 the Magiftrates of Bath^ fignifying the Occafion of 
 Major-General JVade's marching thither with the 
 two Regiments above-mentioned ; they thought fit 
 to return an Anfwer, with an Affurance of their 
 Loyalty, and the Apprehenfions they were under 
 from the vaft Concourfe of Nonjurors and Papifts 
 that flock'd thither : But their Fear ceafed upon 
 Major-General f Fade's coming. 
 
 The Defigns of the Difaffe(?ted upon the Impor- 
 tant City of Brijtol being defeated, they laid a Projed 
 to feize on the Port and Town of Plimoulb but the 
 fame was happily prevented, by the timely fecuring 
 of feveral fufpedled Perfons* I have heard Mr. 
 Buxton fay, that he had been taking a View of this 
 Port, and Port/mouth and had counted how many 
 Gahnon were mounted in each. Part of the com- 
 mon People in Cornwal were at this time ripe for 
 Rebellion, fome of them having got together, had 
 the Infolenc;©' ^-to < proclaitii the Pretender - '2tx St. 
 Colomhe. • • ' > - ' , ' 
 
 The Tory Party, tho* difappointed in ' their firft 
 Attempt to furprize Briflol^ yet their Ze^l for 'the 
 Caufe annimated them for to undertake another De- 
 fign upon that City. Being informed about the 
 middle of January lyi^ — 16, That the late Duke 
 of Ormond intended to Land in the Weft^ and put 
 himfelf at the Head of a Body of Difcontents, who, 
 upon Pretence of repairing to Brijlol Fair defigned 
 to make themfelves Mafters of that famous City ; 
 the Government thought fit to reinforce that Garifon 
 with Colonel Pocockh Regiment of Foot, and fome 
 other regular Forces. Major General Tl^ade^ who 
 Commanded in thofe Parts, repaired thither, to give 
 the neceflary Directions ; and at the fame time, the 
 Loyal Citizens formed two voluntary Troops of 
 
 Horfe 
 
[ 221 ] 
 
 Horfe to fupprefs Mobs, which were grown Info- 
 lent • Nor were thefe Precautions altogether needlds : 
 For the Night between the 14th and '5^^ of /^z- 
 nuan a Waggon laden with Goods for Briftol Fair, 
 beine'by accident fet on Fire at Hounflow, there was 
 difcovered in it a great Quantity of Fire- Arms and 
 Ammunition lying under dje Goods "Pon which 
 the fame were feized by a Trooper of the Duke of 
 Arnle's Royal Regiment of Guards ; fo this le- 
 cond Defign mifcarried. Fate ftili purfuing all their 
 
 ^^^efides all thefe Schemes fo artfully laid, prev^us 
 to thefe a mortifying Accident befel them; an Or> 
 der was Sign'd by the Secretary of State, fbrtofeize 
 Sir William mndbam, fufpeded to be concerned in 
 forming a Party of his Intereft to rife m favour ot 
 the Pretender: This happened September 11, 1715. 
 The Meffenger and Captain Hujk of the I^oot 
 Guards, were difpatch'd to apprehend him at his 
 Seat called Orchard mndbam in Somerfetjhire, who 
 o-ot diither between Four and Five in the Morning ; 
 ?he Door being opened to them, they appeared to 
 be in hafte to fee Sir William, but the Porter told 
 them he was in Bed, and could not yet be fpoke 
 with The Colonel told him, he came Expreis, 
 and the Perfon with him had a Packet of Letters of 
 fuch Confequence, his Mafter muft- be jm'^^^diately 
 told of it. This convinced the Man, and Sir Willtam 
 prefently leaped out of Bed, and came m liiis Gown 
 to the Colonel, who told him he was his Prifoner ; 
 the Meffenger atthemean tinfielhewinghis Scutcheon, 
 the Badge of his Office, Sir William toldjhem, that 
 he readily fubmitted but he defired no Noift might 
 be made to frighten his Lady who was with Child 
 They then entred a Chamber, wh6rc the Colonel 
 feeino- Sir William*s Coat and Waiftcoat lie, told 
 him,''he had Orders to feize all his Pipers, and 
 that he muft take leave to fearch his Pockets, where- 
 
 P 4 
 
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 f. jj!^^"^ ^ ^""^^e of Papers, which he fecured. 
 Sir mibam would have diverted him, by ofFerino- 
 him very frankly the Keys of his Efcrutore ; but 
 the Co one! happened to fecure the main Chance 
 above, (finding nothing in the Efcrutore.) Sir ^7/- 
 ItamJ Countenance alter'd when the Colonel took the 
 Bundle out of his Waiftcoat Pocket. Sir miiiam 
 then defired the Colonel, that he would ftay till Se- 
 ven o; Clock and he would order his own Coach 
 and Six Horfes to be got ready, which would car- 
 ry them all ; telling the Colonel, he would only go 
 and'put on his Cloaths, and take leave of his Lady 
 and then he would waic on him. The Colonel 
 who had particular Orders to ufe him with Decorum' 
 readily complied with the Requeft, looking on it 
 as his Parole to return ; but he foon found himfelf 
 miftaken ; for tho' the Colonel had caufed Two 
 Doors of Sir miliam's Bed- Chamber to be fecured 
 yet there being a Third, he made his Efcape thro' it* 
 The Colonel having direded the Meffenger to rtav 
 n Orchard-mndham till farther Orders, returned 
 with all Speed to London, to acquaint the Govern- 
 ment with what had happened ; whereupon the Kin? 
 m Council thought fit to publifli a Proclamation^ 
 with a Reward of a Thoufand Pounds for Appre- 
 hending him. 
 
 Sir ^///^^« being purfued with this Proclamation 
 and feveral Meflengers, he thought a Clergyman's 
 Habit the bed Difguife, fo order'd a Lettef ^o be 
 lent to a Gentleman in Surry, to defire Refuge in 
 his Houfe ; the Gentleman being abroad, his Lady 
 open d it, and fearing the Confeouence of Harbour- 
 ing one in his Circumftances, (ht fent the Letter to 
 a Nobleman of her Acquaintance, who failed not 
 immediately to acquaint the Government. Sir 
 Uilham rightly judging that he was clofely pur- 
 fued, thought It Prudence to make Neceffity a Vir- 
 tue, ^nd furrender himfelf to the Goyernmenf , in 
 
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 order to that, having crofled the Thames near Thijlk' 
 worthy he went firft to Sion Hoiife belonging to the 
 Duke of Somerfet, his Father-in- Law, and coming 
 from thence to London, on Monday Night, 05loher 
 the 3d, he put himfelf into the Hands of the Earl 
 of Hertford (his Brorher-in-Law) Captain of one 
 of the Troops of Life- Guards ; who gave Notice 
 thereof to Mr. Secretary Stanhope^ who fent one of 
 his Clerks, with a Meflenger, to take Sir William 
 Windham into Cuftody : Three Days after, he was 
 Examin'd at the Council-Board, where he denied 
 he knew any thing of a Plot, or the intended Re- 
 bellion j yet an Order was fign*d for his Commit- 
 ment to the Hower. Whether this Gentleman was 
 privy to any fuch Defigns, 1 fhall not pretend to 
 determine, but this I can affirm, that it was a feeling 
 cold Blow to all the Party, efpecially to the NoT" 
 thumberland Rebels who found themfelves very much 
 lefTened by this Gentleman's Confinement ; and I 
 believe this occafion'd another Knight to play the 
 Sculker with the Northumberland Gentlemen, not- 
 withftanding his folemn Engagements : But his 
 Condudl in all the Parts of his Life reveal him of 
 being incapable of ferving any Side to Advantage or 
 Credit, for his own is funk with all fincere honeft 
 Men. If my old Friend Mr. Forfter had fqueaked, 
 as was not without good Reafon fufpefted, it*s be- 
 lieved this Gentleman would have gone out of the 
 World without his Head. 
 
 D E R W E N T 
 
1 224 1 
 
 Derwentwater'j Pedigree, 
 
 THIS Family of RadcUff or Raddive, is of 
 good Antiquity, flourifh'd at Kefwick in the 
 County of Cumberland for many Generations : k 
 cannot be made appear, that they were the Tame 
 with the Rat cliff e or Radchiffe in Lane a/hire, from 
 whom defcended the Family of the Earls of Suffex ; 
 yet it i5 prefumed they are a Branch thereof for we 
 find one Sir 'Thomas RadcUff, who lived in the tirne 
 of Henry V. by Margaret his Wife, Daughter to 
 Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, had I Hue, Sir Richard 
 RadcUff, and a younger Son, John, who married 
 the Heir- General of the ancient Family of Derwent- 
 water in Cumberland, where they had long flouriihed, 
 by whom he had llTue John RadcUff^ who had that 
 t'ofleffion. 
 
 John, laft named, had Ilfue Three Sons, John 
 Radcliff of Derwentwater, Sir Edward, and Sir 
 Richard Rat cliff. Knight of the Garter in the Reign 
 Hen.Ylh 
 
 John, the elder Son, is probably the fame who 
 was Sheriff of Cumberland feveral times, during the 
 Reign of Hen. VIII. (as many of his Anceftors had 
 been before) of whom at that Time there were fe- 
 veral Defcents ; but the Iffue Male failing, the Eftate 
 of Derwentwater came to the Defendants of Sir 
 Edward Radcliff, Knight, younger Brother of John, 
 in the Perfon of Sir Edward Radcliff, Bart. Son of 
 Sir Francis Radcliff of Cartington, which Sir Ed- 
 ward fettled at Derwentwater, and was created Ba- 
 ronet, vi. Jac. I. Anno 1619. He married Elizabeth, 
 fole Daughter and Heir of Thomas Barton, Efq-, 
 and had Iffue Sir Francis Radcliff, his Son and Heir, 
 and feveral Daughters, 
 
 Sir 
 
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 Sir Francis Raddiff, Son and Heir of Sir Edward^ 
 was created Earl Berwentwater, Vifcount Radcliff 
 and Lcingley in Com. Cumberland, and Baron Rad^ 
 cliff of lyndale, by Patent dated the 7th of March 
 i5gy — 8. 4 2. and died y^nno i6g6'^'/. and 
 was buried at Dilfton, His Wife was Catharine, 
 Daughter and Heir to Sir JVilUafn Fenwick of Mel- 
 don, Com. Northumberland (by his firft Wife Mar- 
 garet. Daughter and Heir of Sir Arthur Grey, Kt. 
 fixth Son of Sir Ralfh Grey, of the Houfe of fVerk) 
 
 and Reli6t of- Lawfon of Barough, in Com. 
 
 Ebor. by whom he had Iffue Five Sbns, and Four 
 Daughters *, Francis his Succeflbr, Edward died un- 
 married, Hoomas, a Lieutenant-Colonel to —- , 
 William and Arthur ; Anne, married to Sir Philip Con- 
 ftable of Flamborough, in Com. Ebor. Bart. Catharine^ 
 Elizabeth, and Mary. 
 
 Edward his Son andSuGceffor, married in the Life-- 
 time of his Father, Mary Tudor, Natural Daughter 
 of King Charles the 2d, by Mrs. Mary Davis ; he 
 died whilft his Father livedo and left Iffue James, 
 late Earl of Derwentwater^ Executed on Tower- 
 Hill for High-Treafon againft King George L Feb. 
 24, 1 71 5 — 6. His fecond Son died in London (bme 
 Years ago ; Charles the third Son being taken in 
 the Rebellion, was found Guilty, made his Efcape 
 out of Newgate. Befides the Three Sons, he left a 
 Daughter, Mary T lidor Radcliff, a very fine Lady, 
 late returned from Abroad. 
 
 ■ The late James Earl of Derwentwater married 
 the Daughter of Sir John Webb, Bart, who has Iffue, 
 a Son and a Daughter. 
 
 His Arms, 
 
 Argent, a Bend Ingfail*d Sable, 
 
 Lord 
 
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 Lord WIDDRINGTON. 
 
 THIS Family has flourifhed with great Emi- 
 nence for many Ages in Northumberland, and 
 were (tiled Lords of Widdrington^ fo early as the 
 Reign of Hen. i. 
 
 Sir Gerrard was Knight for the County, lo EL 
 3. and Roger his Brother, from the 25 of Ed, 3. 
 to the 35 of the fame Reign. 
 
 Sir 'John de JViddrington, Son of Roger, was 
 Knight of the faid County, 5 and 8 of Hen. 4. 
 and Sheriff of Northumberland, 1 1 of Hen. 4. and 
 4 Hen. 6. 
 
 Roger Son of Sir John had the fame Office, the 
 14, 21, and 28 of Hen. 6. 
 
 Sir Ralph Wtddrington, Grandfon of Roger, was 
 made a Banneret in Smland by the Duke of Glou- 
 cefter, 22 of Edw. 4. 
 
 A Defcendant from whom was Sir Henry Wid- 
 irington of Widdrington, Knighted at the Creadon 
 Qi Henry Prince of Wales, 19 of Hen: y. He had 
 Ifluc by his V^ii^ Margery, Daughter of Sir Henry 
 Piercy, Knt. Sit John and Four Daughters. 
 
 Sir John married to his firft Wife Agnes, Daugh- 
 ter to Sir James Metcalfe, Knt. and had IfTue Sir 
 Henry, who died without liTue, 7 Eliz. 
 
 Edward Widdrington fecond Son, who was of 
 Swinbourne, and became Heir to his Brother ; and 
 Jt Daughter Dorothy, who was married to Sir Roger 
 
 Fenwick, Knt. and fecondJy to '■ — Conjiabh. 
 
 Efq-, The fecond Wife of Sir John, v/^ls Jnne^ 
 Daughter of Sir Edward Gower of Stetnam, in the 
 County of Tork, by whom he ha^ I0ue, Robert 
 Widdrington and feveral others. 
 
 Edward Widdrington, Brother and Heir to Sir 
 Henry Widdrington, married Urfula, Daughter of 
 Sir Reginald Carnaby Knt. and had IlTue Sir Henry 
 
 Widdring-r 
 
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 Widdrington, Ralph fecond Son, and Roger i\ivcdL , 
 Son of Cartington^ Father of Edward JViddrington., 
 created a Baronet of Scotland^ and after of England, 
 16 Car, I. Anno 16^2. The Daughters of E^w^zr^ 
 Widdrington of Widdrington were three, JgfieSj Do- 
 roiby, and Catherine. 
 
 Sir Henry Widdrington Son and Heir, was Sheriff 
 of Northumberland 21 of EliTi. and died 13 Jac. i. 
 
 i575> ^^ri^ t>y ^is Wife Mrry, Daughter of 
 Sir Henry Curwen Knt. he had Sir William Wid- 
 drington Knt. and three Daughters. 
 
 Which Sir William Widdrington was created a 
 Baronet, ib. Car. i. Anno 1643, and highly di- 
 ftinguifhed himfelf by his fignal Services to his 
 King in the time of the grand Rebellion, by raifing 
 a confiderablc Power for his Majefty*s Service, and 
 had his fliare in feveral Exploits : He continued in 
 Arms, and aftive in his Majefty's Service till all 
 was loft, and then fhared in the general Ruin with 
 all the King's Friends. He afterwards attended 
 King Charles II. beyond Sea, and in his Voyage to 
 Scotland ; and had a principal Command in the 
 Army under the Earl of Derby, which was employed 
 to open a Paffage for the King's March towards 
 Worcefter ; but being met and encounter'd near 
 Wigan in Lancajhire, by a much more numerous 
 Force under Lilburne^ after a very valiant Refift- 
 ance was there killed, of whom the Lord Clarendon 
 gives a fine Charader. He had Iffue William his 
 Succeflbr, Henry and Ephraitn, who both died 
 young Edward, Captain of Horfe, killed at the 
 Battle of the Boyne. He had IlTue by his fecond 
 Wife, Sir Edward Horjley Widdrington^ and Ralphs 
 who loft his Eyes in the Dutch Wars ; Anthony who 
 died unmarried, and Roger who was killed at the 
 Siege of Maejtricht ; alfo two Daughters, 
 
 To 
 
[ 228 ] 
 
 To whom fucceeded William his Son and Heir, 
 who took to Wife Elizabeth, Daughter and Heir 
 to Sir Perigrine Bertie of Eveden, Com. Lincoln, a 
 younger Son to Robert Earl of Lindfey., by whom 
 he had liTue, William his Son and Heir, Henry y 
 Roger, and Edward, which laft died unmarried ; 
 a]fo fix Daughters, Mary a Nun, Elizabeth a Nun, 
 jinne married to Mr. Clavering of Calalee ; Jane 
 unmarried, Dorothy a Nun, Catherine married to 
 Sir Ed. Southcote. 
 
 William his eldeft Son fucceeded him, and mar- 
 ried Alathea, Daughter and Heir of Lord Vifcount 
 Fairfax, of the Kindgom of Ireland, by whom he 
 had IlTue William, Charles and Peregrine ; alfo three 
 Daughters, Appolonia who took a Religious Habit ; 
 Elizabeth married to Marmaduke, Son and Heir to 
 Marmaduke Lord Langdale *, and Mary, married to 
 Mr. ^ownly of 'Townly. 
 
 William, who was in the 'Tower for High-Trea- 
 fon, and now received the Benefit of the A61 of 
 Grace, married Jane, only Daughter and Heir to 
 Sir Thomas Tempeji of Stella, Baronet, in the Bi- 
 flioprick of Burhatn, and hath IlTue Henry, Born 
 1702. Alathea, 
 
 Arms, 
 
 Quarterly Argent, Gules a Bend Sable. 
 
 Mr, 
 
[ 229 ] 
 
 Mr. Gafcoigne'i Letter to a Friendy a Unit 
 ■ before his Execution, 
 
 Dear SIR, 
 
 I Cannot leave the World without fome Tokens of 
 Gratitude for the jnany and undeferved Favours 
 which I have received frofn you ; therefore I fend this 
 lythe Hands of the Reverend Father^ with my Prayers 
 to the Divine Beings 1'hat he will fhower down fucb 
 Blefftngs upon you^ in his good time, as may return 
 the many good Offices you have done me Seven- fold. 
 What you have done for ?ny Body under a crazy Jiate^ 
 and the Wants that are generally attendant upon Pri- 
 foners divejled of all Neceffaries of Life, require more 
 Acknowledgments than I am capable of -paying ; hut 
 the Care you have taken in providing for the Welfare 
 of my poor and immortal Soul, by fending this holy 
 Man to afjift me with his Prayers and Mvice, is be- 
 yond Expreffion. 'Tis to this A£i of Compaffion that 1 
 Qwe the Recovery of myfelf from a State of Perdition^ 
 than which, nothing could have been more ruinous and 
 miferable : To this, that J am refcued out of the 
 Jaws of Eternal Death, and can fay with the blejfed 
 Jpofile, O Death, where is thy Sting ! O Grave, 
 where is thy Vidory f Nor can I leave the World 
 without due A£ls of Acknowledgment for fo endearing^ 
 fo invaluable a Favour, 
 
 ^ Be pleafed then, to accept this laji Tefiimony of Gra- 
 titude which is not in Words to exprefi, and to believe 
 J am ready to pafs through the Vale of Death with all 
 Qhearfulnefs, being well affiured of Eternal Blifs and 
 Salvation, through the Merits of Chrift Jefus our com- 
 mon Saviour, and the Inter ceffion of the Blejfed Vir- 
 gin, and of Saints and Angels, with him that fttteth 
 -upon the Throne, and will at the laji Day judge tht 
 IVorld in Right eoitfnefs. 
 
 J bave^ 
 
[230] 
 
 I have nothing more than to defire your and all good 
 tlatholicks Prayers^ and to take care that the Paper 
 inclofed in this, a Copy of which I intend, God willing, 
 to give the Sheriff at the Place of Execution, may he 
 made Puhlick as I have written it j and cfk leave to 
 Juhfcrihey Bear Sir, 
 
 Tour Dying Friend^ 
 
 and moft HutnbU Servant ^ 
 
 R. Gafcoigne, 
 
 yf LETTER /^^ Author. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have feen the Character which you have given the 
 brave Earl of Strathmore ; you have done him 
 nothing hut Juftice. I beg you will he fo kind as to 
 give this Letter a Place in your next Edition, which 
 may fiill add to preferve the Metnory of that never to 
 le forgotten Hero: He is defcended frofn one of the 
 leji and ancientefl Families in Scotland, being Chief of 
 the Name of Lyon ; he was a Touth of very pro- 
 mifing Salifications, of unfhaken Courage, and fled- 
 faft Zeal to the Pretender ; being brought up in thofe 
 Principles that infufed fuch into him, that made him 
 adhere to the Companions of his Fate. He raifed a 
 Regiment out of his own Dependants and Followers, 
 who were fent over the Forth with Mac-Intolh •, but 
 he and his Lieutenant Colonel Walkinfhaw 5/Barrow- 
 field, were forced back in their defign of croffing the 
 Forth into the IJle of May, where he made the Great- 
 nefs of his Soul vifthle, by the refolute ar.d obftinate 
 Defence which he made on that IJland againjt his 
 
 Majejlfs 
 
[ ] 
 
 Majeftfs Ships, hy intrenching himfelf and thofi with 
 him, and ?nade this mefnorable Speech to his Followers i 
 Gentlemen, We are embarked in a Caufe which 
 Ihould be dear to every Scot/man, who ftudy to 
 have themfelves freed from Englijh Bondage, into 
 which the Enemies of our Country have betrayed 
 us : I hope you will exert yourfelves upon thi3 
 Occafion ; I fhall make my Sincerity vifible, by 
 expofing my Perfon where the greateft Danger offers 
 kfelf, thinking it my Glory to die in this Caufe. 
 All the Gentlemen and Common Men gave their Parole 
 of Honour to ft and hy him to the lafi Drop of Blood ; 
 lut they faved their Honour and Blood by finding a 
 Way to get into Fife. If this nolle Lord had been 
 inftru^led in the Principles of the EftaUifhed Govern- 
 ment, he would have been the greateft Glory of his 
 Age : But yet it ?nuft be allowed, that Men are not 
 io be buried in Oblivion, that have Generofity and 
 Greatnefs of Mind to defend the Caufe which tbey 
 efpoufe. 
 
 I am Yours, 
 
 Jul'} 15, 1717. 
 
 W—mD-fu 
 
 2^4 
 
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 Tbe Lord Lovatt'j Account of the taking oflnvtx^ 
 nefs •, with other Advantages obtained over the Re- 
 bels in the North of Scotland. 
 
 ON the 15th of September, the Laird of Mac- 
 kintofh convened his Men at Farr, as was 
 given out, to review them ; but in the Evening he 
 marched ftrait to Invernefs, where he came by Sun- 
 rifing with Colours difplayed ; and after he had 
 made himfelf Matter of what Arms and Ammuni- 
 tion he could find, and fome little Money that be- 
 longed to the Publick, proceeded to proclaim the 
 Pretender King, under the Name of James the 
 VII I th of Scotland, and 1 1 Id of England. At this 
 time Jean Gordon, Lady Culloden, found it abfo- 
 lutely neceflfary, for the Safety of a great many of 
 the King's Friends and their Goods, to fhut up the 
 Houfe of Culloden, where fhe had taken in great 
 Store of Provifion. Her Hufband, then Member 
 of Parliament, tho* at London, had fome very good 
 Arms in his Houfe, and ordered One Hundred 
 Men to be taken in, knowing that the Rebels could 
 not omit to Garifon it, being a very ftrong Houfe, 
 and fo near Invernefs, that it hinder'd any to go or 
 come from it on that fide of the Water of Nefs ; 
 which M' Intofh finding, fent a Meflfage to the 
 Lady to give lip the Houfe ; but fhe refufing it, 
 he went himfelf, and fpoke to the Lady over a 
 Window, but to no purpofe. She underftood that 
 there was no Means but the Rebels would ufe to 
 have that Houfe, which might be fo troublefome 
 to Invernefs, that now there was a Garifon of Four 
 Hundred Men fettled, of the Name of MKenzie 
 of Coull. Upon the 20th of September, M* hitofjj 
 march*d with fix Hundred Men, the firft of all the 
 Clans, towards the Earl of Mar, who then had fet 
 
 up 
 
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 Up the publick Standard of RebeHion. The want 
 of Cannon was the only Thing that grieved the 
 Lady Culloden ; but being informed that there was 
 a IVTerchant Ship lying in the Harbour of Invernefsy 
 which had fix Guns on Board, and a Number of 
 Ball for them ; fhe detached a Party of Fifty Men, 
 under Silence of the Night by Boats, who had the 
 fix Pieces of Cannon before it was Day mounted 
 upon the Houfe to the great Surprize of the Jaco- 
 bites in the Town, who look'd upon that Cannon 
 as their Security. 
 
 While this loyal Lady was fortifying her Houie, 
 flie had the good Luck of being affifted by the Ar- 
 rival of Mr. Duncan Forbes, her Brother-in-law, 
 who from that Time diftinguiHied himfelf both by 
 his Wit and Refolution ; that if Things were aded 
 by the Rebels according to the Hardinefs expe6led 
 from them, it might be improper to have fuch a 
 Governor and Governefs in one' Houfe, and fome 
 other Places not fo well ferved. 
 
 The Earl of Seaforth^ who was nominated Lieu- 
 tenant- General, and Commander in chief of the 
 Northern Counties to his Majefty K. James VI IT 
 (for fo was the Defignation then) was not idle, ga- 
 thered his Men from the Lewes, and all his Inland 
 Country, to the Place of Brahan, where Sir Donald 
 M'-donald of Slate with 600 Men, and the Laird of 
 M'kinnon with 1 50, join'd him. Alexander Mckenzie 
 of Frazerdale, who affumed a Command of the 
 Name of Frazer by his Lady, had forced together 
 400 of that Name, which, with the 100 Men that 
 Chifolme ("who is Vafllil to that Family) had, made 
 up 500 under Frazer dale's Command, which lay at 
 and about Cafiledouny, five Miles from Brahan, and 
 fix from Invernefs : But the Frazers of Struy, Foyer, 
 Culduthell, ^c. kept the reft of that Name on Foot 
 for the Government, having Affurance that the Lord 
 
 0^2 - Lovaty 
 
[ 234 ] 
 
 Lovat, their natural Chief, was at London, firm for 
 the Proteftant Succefllon, and daily expefted. This 
 procured them not only the Ridicule, but the Ob- 
 jeds of the Rebels Threats. Frazerdale finding his 
 Party few to what he expefted, refolv'd (if it was 
 poflible) to bring thofe Gentlemen into their Party ; 
 and fo wrote to St my and Foyer , that he wanted 
 much to meet with them, in order to fatisfy them 
 with the Juftice and Reafonablenefs of what they 
 were to rife for ; and that he hoped either he fhould 
 fatisfy them, or that they would him. 
 ' The Gentlemen upon his Letter refolv d to trult 
 him, and fiiew him freely that they would continue 
 firm to the Proteftant Succeffion as by Law efta- 
 blifhM : And having come with 150 Men near his 
 Houfe of Cajiledouny, they were told he was at Bra-^ 
 hcin with my Lord Seaforth, from whom they im- 
 mediately receiv'd a MelTage by one Donald M'ur- 
 chifon, Fador to the Lord Seaforth ; that he under- 
 ftood they had got in Arms, and that, anfwerable 
 to his Power as Lieutenant- General and Comman- 
 der in chief of thofe Counties, he demanded them 
 to ioin him, and have themfelves lifted to ferve his 
 Maiefty K. James VIII. To which they return'd 
 Anfwer, That they were Proteftants of the Low- 
 Church, and that they would let his Lordfhip know 
 fo much whenever he pleafed. But in the mean time 
 that his Meffage was deliver'd them, he detach'd 600 
 Men, commanded by M'kenzie of Frazerdale, Aple- 
 crofs ' and Fairhurn, with an Order to take theni 
 dead or alive but by good Luck it was one of 
 the moft boifterous Nights that could be ; and 
 when they came to the Place, they found that they 
 had been apprized of their Coming, and had got 
 themfelves in a Pofture of Defence which obliged 
 them to return, half ftarv'd with Cold and Hunger, 
 
 Here 
 
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 Here was feen the Honour and Condua of the 
 one who was a Proteftant Commander whofe Let- 
 ter brought thofe Gentlemen there, and the other a 
 Popilh General, who would not give h.s ow" Ho- 
 nour the fair Play of ftay.ng for the Return ofhis 
 MelTage, but fent his Party to cut off thofe Gen- 
 tlemen who look'd upon themfelves fafe during 
 heir Treating. The Earl of S,ahM who was 
 fent down from Court to command in the North of 
 ScolUnd, had got of the Mackays, Ro£h, Mo«roes, 
 and his own Men, 1800 together at a Place in 
 called Jlnes, and thought proper to divert Serf^th 
 from joining Mar ; that the King's other Friends 
 in the North, who were in Readinefs to join him, 
 if they could come together, they would have been 
 able to give the Earl of Seaforlh, ox Huntley , or 
 both, B?ttel: But Seaforth finding himfelf 4000 
 ftrong, and &utberUni but .800, thonght it was Ht 
 to taf; the Advantage, and lo march'd direftly to- 
 wards^//<«, where SuiherhnA lay ; who found, that 
 by retiring to SutberUni, Scaforth would be for 
 fome Time diverted, and he would fave his Men 
 from fighting fo unequally. Seafortb coming to 
 Alnes, which is the Monroes Country, allowed his 
 Men to commit all the Barbarity that could be ex- 
 peded from Turh, deftroy'd all the Corn and Cat- 
 tle in the Country, took of every thing that was 
 ufeful within as well as without Doors lodg d their 
 Men in the Churches, where they kiU'd Ca tie and 
 did every thing difrefpeclful to Places of Worfhip ; 
 and treated the Minifters, of all the People, the 
 worft-, took fome Gentlemen Prifoners i and now 
 believed, that fince Sutherland retired, all the Caule 
 was gain'd tliere. , ^ j 
 
 Next Care was to come to I'^''-«'f'.\?-f,}?!f'^ 
 a ftronger Garifon in it ; reduce the pitiful Whig- 
 houfe Garifons, as they called Culloden and Kxllra-^ 
 
[ 236 ] 
 
 *vock Houfes, and force all the filly People who 
 flood out along with them. 
 
 Being come to Invernefs, General .Jm/cr/^ called a 
 Council of War, where were prefent the Lord 
 Diiffiis, Sir Donald M"* Donald, Frazerdale, M'Ki?i- 
 mn, the Chifolmes, and feveral other Officers, be- 
 fides Sir John M' Kenzie of Coul the Governor, 
 where it was refolved that Ctdloden Houfe muft be 
 reduced at any Rate ; and fo commanded Mr. George 
 M* Kenzie of Grumziord to go with a Trumpet 
 along with him, and fumm.on the Houfe formally 
 to furrender. Coming to the Place, Grumziord or- 
 dered the Trumpet to Sound, and called to Mr. 
 Duncan who kept the Houfe : Mr. Forbes not only 
 told him, but fliewed him, that the Houfe was not 
 in their Reverence, and fo Defiance was returned 
 for Anfwer. But in a fecond Council of War, the 
 Lord Duffus was fent in order to reduce Mr. Forbes 
 by Reafon, or otherwife to afTure him of the hardeft 
 Treatment if the Houfe was taken. But my Lord 
 returned without Succefs and fo a Difpofition was 
 made for the Siege, and the Party for the Attack 
 order'd ; but finding that the Houfe was ftrong, 
 and the Governor and Garifon obftinate and brave, 
 after twelve Days Deliberation, marched forward 
 toward their Grand Camp at Perth. From Inver- 
 nefs they marched to Strath-Spy^ the Laird of 
 Grafifs Country, where they found the Grants all 
 in Arms, in order to fecure their Country from 
 harm ; they only alked fome Baggage Horfes to the 
 next Country, and Quartered their Men civilly, 
 and returned the Horfes home next Day ; and fo 
 they joined the Earl of Mar at Perth^ where they 
 continued till the decifive Stroke of Dumblain^ from 
 whence they returned in a Hundred Parties, to the 
 Satisfaction of many who were very careful of dif- 
 arming them in their Retreat. But the four Hun« 
 
 dred 
 
I 237 1 
 
 dred Frazers that Mr. M' Kenzie bad brought there 
 four Days before to Dumhlain, hearing that the 
 'Lord Lovat was come home, defeited that Caufe, 
 and came home full armed with tiieir Affeftion to 
 their Natural Chief, and their Love to the Prote- 
 ftant Intereft ; for which that Name diftinguifhed 
 themfelves fmce the Reformation, was plainly feen 
 in their Services thereafter, till the Rebellion was 
 extinguifhed. On the 5th of November, the Lord 
 Lovat, with Mr. Forbes of Culloden, arrived at Cul- 
 loderfs Houfe, from whence my Lord wrote to the 
 Gendemen of his Name that flood for the Govern- 
 ment, to come and receive him: Rofs Killravocky 
 and Forbes of Culloden, conduced him with three 
 Hundred Men by Invernefs, near the Bounds of his 
 own Country ; he was informed, that M' Donald 
 of Kemch was marching with three Hundred Men 
 to reinforce Sir John M Kenzie of Coull at Invernefs, 
 My Lord had concerted with Captain George Grants 
 who then commanded that Name in Abfence of his 
 Brother Rofs of Killravock, and Forbes of Culloden^ 
 that he fhould go through all his Countries and get 
 all his Men together, and that then they would in- 
 veft Invernefs. But finding now that Kepoch was on 
 his March, refolved to intercept Kepoch in his Road, 
 and fo refolved to crofs the River Nefs ; but juft as 
 he was ready to crofs, he gets an Account, that 
 what were not marched to Perth of theM' Mojhes, 
 were in Arms ready to go into Invernefs and 
 ftrengthen that Garifon. Upon which, having con- 
 fulted the Gentlemen that were with him, relolved 
 to difperfe thofe M' Intofhes, and fo came diredly 
 on his Way to the Place where he heard they lay ; 
 and on his Way found two or three of their chief 
 Gentlemen, which bound themfelves for the peace- 
 able Behaviour of fuch as were at home, and that 
 they would giye up their Arms, and give in any 
 ^ 0^4 thing 
 
[ 238 ] 
 
 thing they could afford in Invernefs, when they were 
 Mafters of it. His Lordfhip having on the 7th of 
 November croffed the Water, refolved to throw 
 himfelf in diredly betwixt Kepoch and Sir John, who 
 hearing of his coming, refolved to fally out, and 
 that Kepoch on one fide, and he on the other, would 
 attack him. But Kepoch ?in^\n^ himfelf not fafe to 
 go forward, returned home by the Country of 
 Urquharts, belonging to the Laird of Grant, where 
 he did feveral Barbarities, and carried off three or 
 four Gentlemen Prifoners, in hopes they would re- 
 lieve themfelves by a Booty, which they not yield- 
 ing to, he difmiffed in two or three Days. Upon 
 News of Kepoch's fudden retiring, my Lord Lovat 
 marches ftrait to the Town of Invernefs, and in his 
 way found fome Cows that belonged to the Garifon, 
 kept by a Guard, which he took, and chafed in one 
 other Party to the Town. Having fettled his Men 
 within a Mile of the Town, ordered a Party to 
 the fide of the Firth, to flop any Boats coming with 
 any Succours of Men or Provifions to the Garifon ; 
 and now he began to think that it was not reafon* 
 able to be idle a Minute, and fo acquaints Rofs of 
 Killravock, and Forbes of Culloden, who had the 
 Town Blockaded on the Eaft-fide of Nefs, that it 
 was proper to attempt the Town, fince the Grants 
 were eight Hundered on their March. Mr. Duncan 
 Fories, a Man that was moft adlxve in thefe Af- 
 fairs, hardly giving himfelf Reft, was order'd to go 
 and concert fOme things with my Lord Lovat, and 
 Arthur Rofs, Brother to the Laird of Killravock ; a 
 young Gentleman that had been Captive in Turkey 
 for many Years before, and but juft come home, 
 was order'd to cover Mr. Forhes*s paffing the River 
 with a Party : He finding the Rebels Guard re- 
 lieving their Centinels by the River- fide, purfued 
 them To clofe to the heart of the Town, that en- 
 tering 
 
C 239 ] 
 
 tering the I'alhooth Door, where the Governor had 
 lodged himfelf with his Main Guard, he was by 
 the Centinel within Ihot through the Body, and 
 thereafter he difcharged two Piftols he had under his 
 Safh, among the Guard, and had they not crulhed 
 his Sword -Hand in forcing the Door clofe, he 
 might have lived fome longer time than he did, 
 which was but about ten Hours. 
 
 At the Alarm of this Shooting, the whole Ga- 
 rifon got to Arms, firing fo from all Quarters, that 
 the fix or feven Men that came up with Mr. Rofs^ 
 had very good luck to efcape. The Death of this 
 gallant Gentleman fo vex'd my Lord his Brother, 
 and all his other Friends, that they fwore Revenge 
 of his Blood, and accordingly fummoned the Town 
 to fend out their Garifon and Governor, or if they 
 did not, they would burn the Town, and put them 
 all to the Sword. The Governor expefting no great 
 Favour from Eaft or Weft- fide, was in a Surprize. 
 My L.ord ordered all the Men to be ready, which 
 the Governor finding, on Saturday the tenth of 
 November got together all the Boats he could find, 
 and with high Water made off" with all imaginable 
 Confufion, to the Joy and Grief of the fundry Par- 
 ties within. Rofs of Kilravock, and Colloden^s Men 
 lay at and about CoUoden^ the eight Hundred Grants 
 to the Weftward of them two Miles *, and the Lord 
 Lovat who had got of his Name five Hundred 
 together on the North and Weft-fide of the Town, 
 marched all in, having prepared Bullets for their 
 Men. They now found it convenient to let the 
 Earl of Sutherland know they had the Town : And 
 his Lordfliip receiving my Lord Lovafs Letter, re- 
 turned him a very kind Letter, wherein he was glad 
 his Lordfliip, by his Conduct and Diligence, was 
 fufficiently entitled to the King's Favour, and that 
 none would more truly reprefcnt it than he. 
 
[ 240 ] 
 
 At this time the Earl had got together his Men, 
 and the others that were with him in Rofs, and was 
 to march forward to join that confiderable Body 
 that were then together at Invernefs : His Lord- 
 fhip being thirty fix Miles from Invernefs^ marched 
 his Men, being a confiderable Number, to the 
 Weftern DiVifion of Rofs^ where they encamped ; 
 and his Lordlhip, with the Lord Rae^ Monro of 
 FoulSa and feveral other Gentlemen, came into In- 
 'uernefs on Tuefday the 13th of 'Novembers which 
 Day we had the joyful News of his Grace the Duke 
 of ArgyWs Vidory at Dumhlain, which was ob- 
 ferved with great Solemnity of Joy and two Days 
 thereafter, having left Colonel Robert Monro of 
 Fouls, Governor of Invernefs there, with a fuitable 
 Party, the Earl of Sutherland with his Men, and 
 the Lord Lovat with a part of his Men, went to 
 the Place of Brahan, and obliged all the refpon- 
 fible Men of the M' Kenzie's that were not with 
 my Lord Seaforth at Perth, to fecure their peace- 
 able Behaviour, and return the Arms taken from 
 the Monro's by my Lord Seaforth before, and releafe 
 the Prifoners, and that they would not affift my 
 Lord Seaforth directly or indiredly ; and that they 
 would anfwer to his Lordfliip of Sutherland any 
 Sum of Money he required for the ufe of the Go- 
 vernment, upon a due Advertifement ; and that 
 the Lord of Seaforth'^ Houfe of Brahan would be 
 made a Garifon for his Majefty King George. 
 
 Things being put in this order in that Country, 
 the Monroe's being left at Invernefs, the Earl of 
 Sutherland marched with his Men ; the Frazer*s, 
 the M* Kafi, the Rofs, Killravock's Men, Cullo- 
 den's, and Sir Archibald Campbell Tutor of C alder, 
 with a Party of two Hundred to Murray, to bring 
 that Country's Difaffedlion to good Order, and di- 
 vert my Lord Huntley from crolTing the River Sfey, 
 
 whQ 
 
[ 241 ] 
 
 who made the Rocks in that Country refound his 
 RefoUitions, having got, as he gave out, new Or- 
 ders, and a Detachment fent with General Eclin to 
 him from Perth: But they were not long in that 
 Country, when things were put in that Condition, 
 that the Earl of Sutherland came back to Invernefs, 
 and left the Lord Lovat^ Killravock^ Sir Archibald 
 Campbell^ ^c. behind, to aft as he direded them, and 
 as Matters required. The Murray Jacks\^t\x\o^ put 
 in pretty good Order, the King's Authority own'd 
 over all the Country, it was thought proper to 
 fend Hugh Frazier of Foyer to Stir ling y to let the 
 Duke of Argyle know how Matters flood, and re- 
 ceive his Grace's Command. The whole Country 
 betwixt F'ort'lVilliam and Aberdeen being in the Re- 
 bels Hands, except Murray and Strath Spey, he 
 was obliged to go all over the Country under the 
 Silience of Night, in the deepeft Storm that was 
 feen of a long time : Having given Sir Robert 
 Pollock, Governor of Fort-lViliiam, the News of 
 their Country, he went forward for Dunjlafnage, 
 and from thence to Inverary, where he gave the 
 Earl of Boot, who then commanded there. Sir Dun- 
 can Campbell of Lochnell, and Colonel Alexander 
 Campbell of Faunab, account of their Country ; and 
 went forward to Glajgow, where he found the whole 
 Town rejoicing at the good Account of Affairs 
 from the North ; and having got the Magiftrates 
 Pafs, went forward for Stirling, v/here he arrived 
 the 17th of December, and was introduced to his 
 Grace the Duke of Argyle by Brigadier General 
 Grant, Lieutenant of the County of Invernefs. His 
 Grace was mighty well pleafed that Matters went 
 fo well there, and took particular Pleafure and 
 Care to examine every leading Man's Zeal and 
 Condu6t ; in which Examinatira he took up near 
 two Hours, a^lld the next Day made his Orders 
 
 ready, 
 
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 ready, and order'd him aboard a Shif) belonging 
 to the Town of Forres^ that lay ready at Borou- 
 fiounnes to fail ; but being informed that there was 
 a great many Barks cruifing on the Coaft of Fife 
 and Angus, belonging to the Rebels, and had taken 
 fome People and Arms that were bound North, 
 ordered him to fleer his Courfe home through the 
 Mountains, as he came there, which he did tho' 
 he was fo clofe purfued by the Rebels, that he was 
 forced to take lihelter in the Garifon of Fort-Wil- 
 liam for feveral Days. The Governor and Lieute- 
 nant-Governor, Men very aftive, and of fpecial 
 Intelligence, having got particular Notice, that all 
 the Fords and Paffes were fo guarded for him that 
 he could not efcape, kept him with all imaginary 
 Care and Civility, till by a Country Man he was 
 conduced privately through the Hills, and arrived 
 iafe at Invernefs. At this time Mr. Alexander Gordon 
 of Ardoch, and Lieutenant Donald M Neil, were 
 fent down to the Earl of Sutherland with Arms and 
 fome Money, which was very much wanting: 
 And had not Mr. Forbes of Culloden, who had 
 an Intereft in the Town of Invernefs, taken up a 
 confiderable Sum, the Men had been very much 
 in want. 
 
 During this time the Earl of Seaforth was not 
 idle, having got his Men that fcatter'd at BumUain 
 together near Brahan. My Lord Huntley, on the 
 other hand, made the World believe he was with 
 ^11 Fury to attack the Earl of Sutherland and thofe 
 ^with him : Seaforth and his Friends thought that 
 with boz^ing Sutherland would retire a fecond time, 
 but found it otherwife. The Earl of Sutherland 
 hearing that the Highlanders that run home from 
 Dumhlain were to be at a Head, and join Seaforth, 
 inarched with his own Men, my Lord Rae*s Men, 
 the Monroes, and the Rojfes, of each but Parties, 
 
 made 
 
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 made np 800 200 of the Grants, Cullode?!, and 
 the Frazersy making up the reft of 800, lay at 
 Bewley near Lovat, within four Miles of Seaforthh 
 Camp, whofe Boafting furpafled Rehearfal. The 
 Earl, my Lord Lpvat, and the other Gentlemen, 
 being moved by their Menaces, refolve to give 
 them Battle. Fouls, who in all thefe Tranfadlions was 
 forward and diligent, with a People of good Prin- 
 I ciple and Refolution, wanted nothing more than one 
 good Stroke to avenge their bad Ufage before by 
 them •, to be fure Culloden's. Men wanted not good 
 Will and if the /'tor's had not Realbn by their 
 former Attempt upon them, any Man may judge. 
 The People being all found well refolv'd and chear- 
 ful, were put in order for the Diverfion ; which 
 when my Lord Seaforth faw, he thought convenient 
 to Capitulate, own the King's Authority, dj'fperfe 
 his Men, and propofe the Mediation of thefe Go- 
 vernment Friends for his Pardon. 
 . Upon his Submiffion, and after the King was 
 gracioufly pleafed to fend down Orders, That upon 
 giving up his Arms, and coming into Invernefs, he 
 might expea his Pardon : Yet upon the Pretender's 
 Arrival at Perth, and my Lord HurJkfs Suggeftions 
 to him, that now was the Time for them to ap- 
 pear for their King and Country, and that what 
 Honour they loft at Dumblain might yet be re- 
 gained : But while he this infinuated to my Lord 
 Seaforth, he privately found that my Lord Seaforth 
 had, by being an early Suiter for the King's Par- 
 don, by promifmg to lay down his Arms, and 
 owning tlie King's Authority, claimed in a great 
 Meafure to an AfTurance of his Life and Fortune,^ 
 which he thought proper for himfeif to purchafe at 
 the Rate of difappointing Seaforth, with Hopes of 
 ftanding by the Good Old Caufe, Seaforth, with 
 •tiiat vain Hopes, bft the King's Favour that was 
 
 promiied 
 
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 promifedhim: Which ^z/;;//^); embraced, by taklno- 
 the very firft Opportunity of deferting the PrT- 
 tender's Caufe, and furrendering himfelf upon Terms 
 made with him of Safety to his Life and Fortune. 
 This founded fo fweet with him, that he Hept fo 
 lecure, as never to dream of any Prefervation for a 
 great many good Gentlemen that made choice to 
 ftand by him, and ferve under him *, tho* many 
 Other Worthy Nobles would Die or Banifh, rather 
 than not (hew their Perfonal Bravery, and all other 
 Friendly Offices to their Adherents. 
 
 Tho' the King's Order was fent down for takino- 
 the Mac Kenzie's Arms and Seaforth's^ having the 
 Liberty of the Town of Invernefs, the Hopes of 
 the Pretender's Caufe taking Life again, made him 
 defer coming in from Day to Day, till it was 
 found out again that he defigned to rife yet a-new : 
 While in thefe middle of the Hopes, the main Chance 
 was blafted, the Duke of Argyle marched from Stir^ 
 ling towards Perth ; the Pretender not only aban- 
 doned Perth, but the whole Caufe, left fome of his 
 Worthieft Friends untaken leave of, and the reft all 
 at the Mercy of the Enemy but they had to deal 
 with Chnftians, true Proteftants, and faithful Sub- 
 jefts to the beft of Proteftant Kings. After the 
 Pretender left the Country by Sea, his Grace the 
 Duke of Argyle, at the Head of Ten Thoufand 
 gallant Troops, came to Aberdeen, and from thence 
 ordered Brigadier General Grant, with a Detach- 
 ment to Invernefs, and fent Detachments to the fc- 
 vcral proper Places in thofe Countries ; and then 
 fent Major-General Wightman to Invernefs, who went 
 carefully through the Countries of fVeJl and Eaft 
 Rofs, and upon Information took in the Earl of 
 Cromarty, and fome other Mac Kenzies Prifoners, 
 and ordered, that upon giving in their Arms, fuch 
 as were not Attainted might live peaceably and im- 
 prove the Country. 
 
 His 
 
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 His Grace having now put an End to the Gene*- 
 ral Rebellion, went up to Court, leaving Lieute- 
 nant-General Cadogan to Command, who with Four 
 Thoufand Horfe and Foot marched by Perth to 
 Blair of Athol^ and from thence to Riithven in Bade- 
 noch^ where one Mac Donald of Gallovie, and fome 
 Mac Pherfons^ Vaffals to my Lord Huntly, con- 
 temning the Order given for furnifhing the Necef- 
 faries for the Army, and giving up their Arms, 
 had their Lands burnt, and all their Cattle taken 
 in. From Ruthven of Badenoch, he marched the 
 Troops to Borlum near Invernefs^ the Seat of Bri- 
 gadier Mackintojh^ appointed a Party to Seaforth^s. 
 Country to take in all their Arms, and order'd 
 the Garifons in all their confiderable Houfes to be 
 continued as General Wightman placed them, and 
 commanded Mr. George Monro of Culcairn, and 
 Lieutenant Donald Mac Neil, with a Party through 
 all the Highlands and Ifles, to bring in all the 
 Arms, and apprehend any Attainted Rebel they 
 could find, which they did accordingly. From 
 Borlum he went to Fort-JVilliam, and viewed that 
 Place ; ordered the Garifon of Glengary Caftle, and 
 appointed Brigadier Pettit, and fome others with 
 him, to furvey fome Ground at the Head of Loch- 
 nejs for a Fort, which was done ; and all Things 
 being in good Quiet, his Excellency went to Court, 
 leaving the Command upon Lieutenant- General <S<3- 
 line. 
 
 So much from one who was Eye-witnefs to what 
 is here faid. 
 
 FINIS.