[186] The following is a copy of the warrant, and affords a specimen, which may be novel to some readers, of the form in which such affairs are couched. The original is still preserved by the present Earl of Newburgh, the descendant of Charles Radcliffe. I am indebted to the courtesy of the Earl of Newburgh for permission to copy this document, and also for several particulars concerning the family of Radcliffe, which I have interwoven with this biography:-- "_James Stanhope, Esq., one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and Principal Secretary of State._ "These are in his Majesty's name, to authorise and require you, taking a constable to your assistance, forthwith to make strict and diligent search in such places as you shall have notice, for the Right Honourable James, Earl of Derwentwater; and him having found, you are to seize and apprehend for suspicion of Treason, and to bring him, together with his papers, before me to be examined concerning the Premisses, and to be further dealt with according to law: for the due execution whereof, all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Constables, and all his Majesty's officers, Civil and Military, and loving subjects whom it may concern, are to be aiding and assisting to you as there shall be occasion. And for so doing, this shall be your warrant. "Given at Whitehall the two-and-twentieth day of September, 1715. "JAMES STANHOPE." "To Richard Shorman, John Hutching, and John Turner, three of his Majesty's Messengers in Ordinary." [187] His pension was raised for his services from fifty to eighty pounds per annum.--See Caledonian Mercury, 1722. [188] Patten, p. 19. [189] Hutchinson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 131. [190] State Papers. Domestic, No. 4, 1716. [191] Life of Charles Radcliffe, p. 15. [192] Patten, p. 31. [193] Patten. Smollett. [194] Parliamentary History, 2 Geo. I. vol. vii. p. 269. [195] Patten, p. 47. [196] Id. p. 65. [197] An instance of this spirit is related by Lord Sunderland in the case of a Mr. Crisp, a Lancashire gentleman, who acted with such zeal for the Government during the Rebellion, that he was never able to live in his native country afterwards.--Lord Mahon's History of England since the Peace of Utrecht, vol. i. p. 253. [198] Lord Mahon, vol. i. p. 248. [199] Patten, p. 79. [200] Letter from a Scots Prisoner.--See Weekly Journal, or British Gazette, for 1716. [201] Weekly Journal, p. 354. [202] Parliamentary History, p. 269. [203] Life of Charles Radcliffe, p. 23. [204] Patten. [205] Patten, p. 96. [206] Patten, p. 103. [207] Weekly Journal. [208] Patten. [209] Patten. [210] Caledonian Mercury for 1716. [211] Earls of Derwentwater, Nithisdale, Carnwath, and Wintoun; Viscount Kenmure, and Lords Widdrington and Nairn. [212] State Trials, vol. xv. p. 762.