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6] See the True Patriot, under the head Apocrypha, 1745. [97] Stuart's Sketches, II. 76. [98] Tales of a Grandfather, iii. 398. [99] General Stuart's Sketches of the Highlanders, p. 67. [100] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 686. [101] John Sobieski Stuart. [102] Vestiarium Scoticum, p. 100, note. Edited by John Sobieski Stuart. [103] These observations are all taken from the Notes to the Vestiarium Scoticum, a beautiful work, extremely interesting, as being written by the hand of a Stuart, and full of information. [104] Maxwell, p. 70. [105] Baines's History of Lancashire, iv. 69. [106] Tales of a Grandfather, iii. p. 98. [107] Maxwell, p. 71. [108] Tales of a Grandfather. [109] Baines's Lancashire, 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 Derbyshire, 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 cushion, 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 Derbyshire, 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, Derbyshire. [125] Tales of a Grandfather, iii. p. 103. [126] Maxwell, p. 73. [127] Lord
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