Memoirs of the Pretenders and their adherentsJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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acquaint afterward Andrew Mitchell arms army arrived August battle of Culloden behaviour believe Berwick Blair body Campbell Captain Castle Charles Cope's Craigie Cromartie death defence despatched Duke of Argyll Duke of Atholl Dutch Earl Edinburgh endeavours enemies execution executioner express Flora Macdonald French friends gallant gentlemen give head hear Highlanders honour hope Horace Walpole informed intelligence Inverness Jacobite James joined justice clerk king king's Kingsburgh Lady landed last night Leith letter Lochiel London Lord Advocate Lord Balmerino Lord George lord justice clerk Lord Kilmarnock LORD:-I lords justices lordship Majesty Majesty's service Marquis of Tweeddale Miss Macdonald morning Murray o'clock occasion officers orders person Perth Pretender Pretender's prince prisoners proper Provost rebels received regiment says scaffold Scotland sent September sheriffs ship Sir Andrew Mitchell Sir John Cope Stirling Stuarts Tower town troops Walpole warrant WHITEHALL write wrote yesterday
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107 ページ - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance. .There was a comfortable parlour with a good fire, and a dram went round. By and by supper was served, at which there appeared the lady of the house, the celebrated Miss Flora Macdonald.
49 ページ - ... battle. He received three blows, but the first certainly took away all sensation. He was not a quarter of an hour on the scaffold ; Lord Kilmarnock above half a one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too. As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing every window and top of house filled with spectators, he cried out, 'Look, look, how they are all piled up like rotten oranges!
133 ページ - Heaven ! of woes like ours, And let us, let us weep no more.' The dismal scene was o'er and past, The lover's mournful hearse retired ; The maid drew back her languid head, And, sighing forth his name, expired.
52 ページ - Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condenmed: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few ; and let another take his office.
98 ページ - Sir, whom you mean by the young Pretender, I do not pretend to guess ; but I can assure you it is not the fashion in Sky to lay mistress and maid in the same bed together.
53 ページ - Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
107 ページ - To see Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great champion of the English Tories, salute Miss Flora Macdonald in the isle of Sky, was a striking sight; for though somewhat congenial in their notions, it was very improbable they should meet here.
109 ページ - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald and his lady, Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
87 ページ - Lady Cromartie, who is said to have drawn her husband into these circumstances, was at Leicester House on Wednesday, with four of her children. The Princess saw her, and made no other answer than by bringing in her own children, and placing them by her, which, if true, is one of the prettiest things I ever heard.
40 ページ - ... daughters. When they were to be brought from the Tower in separate coaches, there was some dispute in which the axe must go. Old Balmerino cried,