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BRAMPTON IN 1745. 



By Rev. H. WHITEHEAD. 



(Read at Carlisle, March 22nd, 1887. J 



When, on Sunday, November loth, 1745, Prince Charles Stuart 

 was about to begin the siege of Carlisle, hearing that Marshal 

 Wade was expected from Newcastle, he changed his plans, deter- 

 mining to march eastward, so as to engage the Enghsh on hilly 

 ground, his Highlanders being accustomed to such ground, and 

 next morning marched with the greater part of his army to 

 Brampton ; where, having probably intended to stay but a single 

 night, he remained a week — more than twice as long as he stayed 

 anywhere else in England, and a sixth part of the whole period of 

 his campaign on this side of the Border. 



To the inhabitants of Brampton he may have caused some 

 temporary inconvenience : for which, however, he made ample 

 amends by providing them for the rest of their lives with something 

 highly interesting to talk about ; the traditions of which have ever 

 since held the foremost place in the otherwise uneventful annals of 

 that quiet little town. 



"They came down the Lonning", said old David Latimer,* 

 relating to me what he had heard in his youth from eye-witnesses 

 of the Highlanders' arrival at Brampton, " and took possession of 

 the chapel, where a number of them ate, drank, and slept". 



* He died in 1881, aged eighty-four. All statements as to ages of persons 

 mentioned in this paper have been verified, wherever possible, by reference to 

 xegisters, tombstones, and family bibles. 



