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[108] Tales of a Grandfather.
[109] Baines's Lancas.h.i.+re, ii. p. 71; also iii. p. 254.
[110] Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xv. p. 644.
[111] I omit Horace Walpole's exact expression, which is more witty than proper.
[112] Sketches of the Highlanders, by General Stewart, vol. ii. p. 257; also Georgian Era, pp. 56, 57.
[113] Brown's Hist. of the Highlanders, vol. iii. p. 197.
[114] General Stewart, p. 233.
[115] Ibid. p. 246.
[116] Maxwell, p. 71.
[117] Chambers's Hist. of the Rebellion; Edition for the People, p. 54.
[118] Glover's Hist. of Derbys.h.i.+re, vol. i. p. 32. There is, in Ashbourn church, an exquisite monument, sculptured by Banks, and supposed to have given the notion of the figures in Lichfield Cathedral to Chantry. A young girl, the only child of her parents, Sir Brook and Lady Boothby, reposes on a cus.h.i.+on, not at rest, but in the uneasy posture of suffering. On the tablet beneath are these words: "I was not in safety, neither had I rest, and the trouble came." To which were added; "The unfortunate parents ventured their all on the frail bark, and the wreck was total."--A history and an admonition.
[119] Maxwell, p. 72.
[120] Extract from the Derby Mercury. Glover's Hist. of Derbys.h.i.+re, vol.
ii. p. 1 to 420.
[121] Glover, vol. ii. pt. 415; from Hutton's Derby.
[122] Glover, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 240.
[123] Glover, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 421. From the Derby Mercury, the first number of which was issued March 23, 1732, by Mr. Samuel Drewry, Market-place. Appendix to Glover's Hist., 616.
[124] Probably the house wherein Lord George Murray was lodged, belonged to a member of the Heathcote family, of Stoncliffe Hall, Darley Dale, Derbys.h.i.+re.
[125] Tales of a Grandfather, iii. p. 103.
[126] Maxwell, p. 73.
[127] Lord George Murray's Narrative, Forbes, p. 55 and 56.
[128] Maxwell of Kirkconnell, p. 74.
[129] Chevalier Johnstone, p. 51.
[130] Ibid. p. 52.
[131] Chambers, p. 56, and Lord Elcho's MS.
[132] Maxwell, p. 75.
[133] Maxwell, p. 75 76.
[134] Maxwell, p. 76.
[135] Chevalier Johnstone, p. 157.
[136] Lord Mahon's History of England, vol. iii. p. 445.
[137] General Stewart's Sketches, vol. ii. p. 263.
[138] Lord Mahon, vol. iii. p. 446.
[139] Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. 107.
[140] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 57.
[141] Such is the account of a writer in the Derby Mercury, see Glover's History of Derby; but this statement is at variance with Lord George Murray's Journal.
[142] The Grandmother of the Author.
[143] Tradition.
[144] Glover, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 422.
[145] Lord Elcho's MS.
[146] Glover, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 422.
[147] Maxwell, p. 80.
[148] This account is taken from Maxwell's narrative, p. 84 and 85; and from the Chevalier Johnstone's Memoirs, p. 60 and 61.
[149] Jacobite Mem. p. 71.
[150] The Hussars, under the command of Lord Pitsligo, had gone off to Penrith.
[151] Jacobite Mem. p. 72.
[152] Note to General Stewart's Sketches, vol. i. p. 58.
[153] Maxwell.
[154] Jacobite Mem. p. 62.
[155] Maxwell, p. 88.
[156] Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. 125.
[157] Jacobite Mem. p. 74.
