The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1: or a collection of speeches, letters, journals, etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward StuartForbes, Robert
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The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1: or a collection of speeches, letters, journals, etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Forbes, Robert
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788; Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 -- Sources
Agreeable to Kingsburgh's advice they met at the edge of the wood,
where the Prince laid aside his female rags, which were deposited in
the heart of a bush till a proper opportunity should offer of taking
them up; for these that were present resolved to preserve them all as
valuable tokens of distress. After the Prince had got himself equipt
in the Highland cloathes with the claymore in his hand, the mournful
parting with Kingsburgh ensued. Away he went to struggle through a
series of fresh dangers, the faithful MacKechan still attending him.
_Ibid._ Instead of 15 long miles to Portree or Purtry, it should be 7
long miles.
Page 140, line 1. Instead of 10 miles, it should be 6.
_Ibid_, near the foot. Instead of Scorobry, it should be Scorobreck.
Page 141. Kingsburgh said that MacIntosh's country there named
behoved to be an error in the writer, for that MacIntosh had no
property in Sky, and it ought to be named MacKinnon's country.
[Sidenote: _fol._ 145.] Page 142. Kingsburgh said that he thought the
Prince with old MacKinnon had landed in Moror and not in Knoidart;
but he own'd MacKinnon behov'd to know best. He said he was pretty
sure that old MacKinnon was made prisoner in Moror, which might
happen after his coming from Knoidart.
When all the Journal was read over, Kingsburgh observed that the
persons from whose mouths it had been taken had not medled with his
part of the story; 'and,' said he, 'they were indeed right, for they
know very little about it.'
Then particular questions were put to him with respect to that
pamphlet called 'ALEXIS, Part 1st.' To give some instances, it was
asked him, Whether or not it was true that he took along with him
out of Sir Alexander MacDonald's house a bottle of wine and some
bread in his pocket for the refreshment of the Prince; that he had
great difficulty to find him, and that it was owing to the accidental
running of a flock of sheep that at last he found him sitting upon a
rock? He answered, 'All these things are exactly true as related in
that small pamphlet.' Then it was asked, Whether or not the Prince
made briskly up to him with a thick short cudgel in his hand, and
asked, If he was Mr. MacDonald of Kingsburgh? He said, 'It was really
so, and that the Prince very pleasantly said, Then all is well; come,
let us be jogging on;' but that he told him he had brought some
refreshment along with him, which he behoved to take before they set
out; [Sidenote: _fol._ 146.] which accordingly was done, they sitting
upon the top of the rock.
Asked further. If it was true that the Prince lifted the petticoats
too high in wading the rivulet when going to Kingsburgh, and that
honest MacKechan[68] hastily called to him to beware? He said, 'It is
fact; and that MacKechan cried, "For God's sake, Sir, take care what
you are doing, for you will certainly discover yourself;" and that
the Prince laughed heartily, and thanked him kindly for his great
concern.'
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