Secret History of Colonel Hoocke's Negotiations in Scotland in Favour of the Pretender in 1707: Including the Original Letters and Papers which Passed Between the Scotch and Irish Lords and the Courts of Versailles and St. Germains : Never Before PublishedT. Becket, 1760 - 236 strani |
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Stran 69 - Highlands are pretty well armed after their manner. ' The shires of the west are pretty well armed. " The Peers and the Nobility have some arms. " There is no great plenty of belts and pouches, but there are materials enough to make them. " The few cannons, mortars, bombs, grenades, &c. that are in the kingdom, are in the hands of the government.
Stran 69 - There is of woollen cloth in the country enough to clothe a greater number of troops, and the peers and other lords will take care to furnish it. There is a great quantity of linen, shoes, and bonnets for the soldiers. They will be furnished in the same manner as the woollen cloths; of hats there are but few.
Stran 106 - Several of the greatest partisan* of the union acknowledge their error, and come over to us. If we are left in the uncertainty we are now in, the people will grow cool. The chieftains will fear for themselves, when they find that they are despised, and will make their peace, not to have an halter always about their necks.
Stran 53 - Lord Stormont is turned of forty, and he is of the house of Murray. He is rich and powerful on the frontiers of England, and in the middle of Scotland. He is a man of great resolution, strict probity, and uncommon presence of mind." It appears also from the same memorial, that he had considerable weight with the malcontents in his native kingdom. ' The registry of his admission into Christ's college places his birth at Bath.
Stran 28 - ... trick, which, although deservedly accounted infamous in private life, like many other villanies, is not held equally base in accredited spies — he obtained possession of some of Hall's confidential correspondence, by which he found his doubts confirmed ; but having found mentioned in one of these that Hamilton had it in his power to place the king of England on the throne of Scotland without the assistance of France, although that prince should bring no more than a single page with him, he...
Stran 12 - K— of England to regulate their conduct by the duke of Hamilton. I saw the nation ready to come to the last extremities to prevent the Union; that they only waited for a leader; that the duke of Hamilton wanted them not to think of the...
Stran 70 - With respect to money, the state of the nation is very deplorable. Besides that the English have employed all sorts of artifices to draw it out of the kingdom, the expedition of Darien has cost large sums; our merchants have exported a great deal : we have had five years of famine, during which we were obliged to send our money into England and...
Stran 71 - But if, on the contrary, his majesty lands upon the south-west or south coast, he will want a large body of troops, on account of the proximity of the forces of the English, and of their regular troops. We believe that eight thousand men will be sufficient. But with respect to the number of...
Stran 13 - ... manner. I knew that the bulk of the nation was for the king of England, but I was still ignorant of the intentions of the Presbyterians, and of the west country people. I knew that these last were better armed than the rest, and I kept myself always ready to join that party which they should espouse, as they would not stand in need of so many supplies, and are not so divided into...
Stran 71 - Scotland shall land. If his majesty lands north of the river Tay, a small number will suffice for his security, because he will be joined in a few days by considerable numbers of his subjects ; he will be covered by the river Tay and the firth of Forth, and all the shires behind...