Jacobite Memoirs Of The Rebellion Of 1745 (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...of dat name in a' dis town." He then put five guineas into her hand, and desired her tell who helped Nairn away; but she said, " I no tak money; I have a pill of my own." And with so saying, she pulled out an old bill she had in her pocket. He then desired she might tell, or he would confine her in the bridge hole; to which she answered, " Lord pless your honour! no put me in the prig hole." All methods proving ineffectual, he ordered her to be carried to the guard; and, as a punishment for not confessing, he ordered her to be kept on her feet, without allowing her to sit or lie. By this punishment she contracted a swelling in Bridge hole. her legs, of which she is not yet recovered. While she was in the guard, in this situation, there was an Irishwoman, a soldier's wife, sent to the guard, with some strong liquors, in order to intoxicate her, that then she might confess. The wife came to her accordingly, and offered her a hot pot, or some possat, and said she would drink Prince Charles's health; but she answered, " I no pe trink Sharly health. I like de Duke, for I pe a Mac Leod, and Mac Leods no pe like Sharly; but I no trink hot pot, or possat, for I no ken dat. I pe trink milk and whey." Every method proving ineffectual to extract a confession, she was put into the town's tolbooth, where she was kept for some weeks; and she was to be drubbed through the town, had not interest been made to get it prevented.! The poor sentry that was upon Nairn at the hour when he escaped, being discovered, (a strict examination having been made into the matter, ) was whipped, and received five hundred lashes. $ Upon Saturday's afternoon, January 9th, 1748, Captain Donald MacDonald, alias Donald Roy, brother of Hugh MacDonald of Balishair, (late Captain...