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hundred horse, and he would take his fortune along with the 
Highlanders. But this was not granted, because it would weaken 
‘their force too much, discourage their friends from joining them, 
and give their enemies an opportunity of crushing them before they 
should be able to make head against them. Several councils and 
consultations were held about this affair of the Highlanders, and 
many messages passed between them; at last the Highlanders 
agreed to stay with them so long as they continued on the north 
side of the Tweed, but were determined not to go further than the 
Borders. 
After they had marched about from place to place for some 
time, the English gentlemen at last grew determined for an attempt 
upon England, having, they said, received letters from Lancashire 
inviting them thither, and assuring them that there would be a 
general insurrection on their approach, and that 20,000 men 
would immediately join them. Whether they had such expresses 
or not was never certainly known; but they affirmed it to the 
army, and urged the advantages of a speedy march into England 
with such vehemence, that the scale was turned. But Mr. Charles 
Radcliffe always protested against it, as a measure which would 
certainly be their ruin, as indeed it proved. Five hundred High- 
landers thereupon left them, and the Earl of Wintcun went off 
likewise, with a good part of his troops, although he afterwards 
rejoined them. But notwithstanding all these discouragements, 
they were not disheartened, and still continued in their resolution 
of marching for England with such forces as were willing to bear 
them company. 
On the roth of November they came to Preston, where they 
proclaimed the Pretender, and were joined by a great many gentle- 
men, with their tenants, servants, and attendants, but nearly all 
papists. Whenthe alarm was given that the King’s forces were 
coming to attack them, and were but a few miles off, Mr. Farquar- 
son, at the head of a body of rebels, went out of the town as far as 
Ribble-bridge, where they posted themselves, to hinder the king’s 
forces from proceeding any farther ; but they were soon cut off,and the 
passage was left free for General Wills and his troops to pass into 
the town. 
