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when Lord George Murray and his staff were dining in her father's 

 farmhouse at Westhnton, some Highlanders looked in, but seeing 

 who were there backed out. When Lord George and his party 

 had finished their dinner they asked what they had to pay. Being 

 told there was nothing to pay, "Well", said his lordship, "I believe 

 we have saved you more than we have got". Host and guest, no 

 doubt, parted very good friends. 



But some of the rank and file, unless they have been maligned, 

 were not content with dining off what was set before them in the 

 farmhouses which they visited. The "lifeguards" might behave 

 "with complaisance" at Naworth Castle. Meanwhile some of 

 their comrades are alleged to have been "hunting and destroying 

 the sheep of Lord Carlisle's tenants, and bearing off the country 

 people's geese and other poultry" (Ray's History of the Rebellion 

 ofiT^i), p. 95); which they are said to have done in spite of 

 remonstrance from their officers, who "expressed great dissatis- 

 faction, but could not restrain them" (Mounsey, p. 44). 



Such men as these got the whole army a bad name, and 

 occasioned alarm for lives more precious than those of sheep and 

 geese. The late Mr. T. Routledge, currier, of Brampton, who 

 died in October last, aged seventy-five, told me that he remembered 

 having heard his grandmother say that she and other children were 

 sent off to Nether Denton to be out of the way of the Highlanders. 

 She did not tell him, however, and perhaps herself never knew, the 

 fate of which they were supposed to have been in danger. The 

 following story, related by one who was in the prince's army, 

 throws light on this matter : — 



Mr. Ilalkstone, whilst the army lay at Carlisle, was taken ill, and went with 

 a few of his companions to a farmer's house in the neighbourhood, where he 

 remained several days. Perceiving his landlady to be a young woman he asked 

 her if she had any children and where they were. When she found that he 

 was no cannibal, she told him the truth was that all the children were sent out 

 of the way for fear the Highlanders should devour them (The Chevalier de 

 Johnstone's Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745, p. loi). 



Cameron of Lochiel, at one place where he stayed a night, was 

 told by his landlady that "everybody said the Highlanders ate 



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