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There was at that time no other entrance into Brampton from 

 Carlisle than "down the Lonning"; and to persons coming that 

 way into the town the chapel of the almshouses, on the site of 

 which now stands the parish church, would be almost the first 

 large building which presented itself to their notice. 



The prince selected for himself the house now occupied by 

 Mr. W. Hetherington, draper, in High Cross Street ; the stables 

 adjoining which house have only of late years ceased to be called 

 the "cavalry stables"; and another house in the same street, to 

 this day known as "the barracks", by its name hands on the 

 tradition of the use to which it once was put. 



Charles, whilst his soldiers were establishing themselves in these 

 "barracks" and other quarters in and around Brampton, occupied 

 himself with writing a letter, dated "Brampton, Nov. ii, 1745", 

 and signed " Charles Prince Regent", in which he informed his 

 correspondent, Lord Barrymore, who lived in Cheshire, that he 

 expected soon to take Carlisle, and to be in Cheshire before the 

 24th inst, when he hoped that all his friends in that county would 

 be ready to join him. (Ewald's Life of Prince Charles Stuart, 

 vol. i. p. 260). 



It was this confident expectation of being joined by great 

 numbers of English Jacobites which justified to his mind his 

 having taken the hazardous step of invading England. He fully 

 reckoned upon being not only welcomed, but also assisted, as a 

 deliverer. 



He was therefore very anxious that his troops should be on their 

 best behaviour during their march southward, and not unnecessarily 

 molest the inhabitants of the districts through which they had 

 occasion to pass ; a line of policy which his officers and the more 

 intelligent of their men consistently followed. Thus on the day of 

 their arrival at Brampton, Nov. 11, his "lifeguards", described as 

 "well-dressed good-looking men", are stated to have been at 

 Naworth Castle, where "they behaved with complaisance" (Moun- 

 sey's Carlisle in 1745, p. 44). Sergeant Clark, of Brampton, now 

 in his eighty-third year, says that when a boy he heard one Mary 

 Gardner, who was eleven years old in 1745, relate that one day, 



