Wench; and the notorious Colonel Towneley was about
raising the Manchester Regiment of Lancashire Lads to fight for Prince
Charlie. Desperate Jemmy Dawson enlisted under Towneley; and soon, being
a young fellow of good figure and shining talents, was made a Captain.
But the ill-fated Manchester Regiment was ere long broken up; and Jemmy
Dawson, with Colonel Towneley himself, and many other of the officers,
were captured. They were all tried at the Assizes held after the Assizes
at St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark; and James Dawson, being convicted of
high treason, was sentenced to the usual horrible punishment for that
offence. He was drawn on a hurdle to Kennington Common; he was hanged,
disembowelled, and quartered; but the young Madam of whom I have spoken
was true to him unto the last. For many days following the sentence she
vainly solicited his pardon; but finding all useless, she on the fatal
morning (having trimmed a shroud for him overnight, in which, poor Soul,
his mangled remains were not to rest) followed him in a Mourning Coach
to Kennington Common. She saw the Dreadful Tragedy played out to its
very last Act; and then she just turned on her Side in the Coach, and
with a soft Murmur, breathing Jemmy's Name, she Died. Surely a story so
piteous as this needs no comment. And by Heaven it is True!

CHAPTER THE NINTH.

REBELLION IS MADE AN END OF, AND AFTER SOME
FURTHER SERVICE WITH HIS MAJESTY I GO INTO
BUSINESS ON MY OWN ACCOUNT.

MEMORANDUM.--About a year before the Rebellion, as the Earl of
Kilmarnock was one day walking in his Garden, he was suddenly alarmed
with a fearful Shriek, which, while he was reflecting on with
Astonishment, was soon after repeated. On this he went into the House,
and inquired of his Lady and all the Servants, but could not discover
from whom or whence the Cry proceeded; but missing his Lady's Woman, he
was informed that she was gone into an Upper Room to inspect some Linen.
Whereupon the Earl and his Lady went up and opened the Door, which was
only latched. But no sooner did the Gentlewoman within set eyes on his
Lordship's face than she fainted away. When, proper aid being given to
her, she was brought to herself, they asked her the meaning of what they
had heard and seen. She replied, that while she sat sewing some Linen
she had taken up to mend, the Door opened of itself, and a _Bloody Head_
entered the Room, and rolled upon the Floor; that