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the prince, on Tuesday, the 12th, held a council of war, at which 

 he proposed that they should march further eastward to meet 

 Wade. But after much discussion it was resolved that part of the 

 army should return to besiege Carlisle, while the remainder should 

 stay at Brampton. 



So next morning, Wednesday, the 13th, several regiments left 

 Brampton with orders to wait for the prince at Warwick Bridge, 

 half-way between Brampton and Carlisle. About noon he arrived, 

 and led them on to within sight of the city, when he left them, 

 and returned with his guards to Brampton. The regiments 

 marched on to Carlisle, and at once set to work opening the 

 trenches. 



The story of the siege of Carlisle is too well known to need 

 repeating here. But, on behalf of the people of Cumberland and 

 Westmorland, "whose courage", as Mr. Mounsey truly says, "has 

 been proved during centuries of border warfare both regular and 

 predatory", it is right to mention that the ignominious surrender 

 of the city by the militia of those counties is best accounted for by 

 the theory that "the conduct of the militia had its origin in a 

 leaning towards the Stuarts, or at least an indifference towards the 

 house of Hanover" {ib. p. 98). 



On Friday, the 15th, the prince still remaining at Brampton, 

 from which place he dictated the terms of surrender, the duke of 

 Perth entered and took possession of the city. 



The surrender was greatly against the will of Colonel Durand, 

 the castle garrison, the majority of the citizens, and some of the 

 militia officers, one of whom, Mr. Joseph Dacre, of Kirklinton 

 Hall, father of Rosemary Dacre, whose romantic story forms the 

 subject of an interesting paper by Miss Goodwin in the "Cumber- 

 land and Westmorland Archseological Transactions" (vol. viii, 

 pp. 237-244), and great-grandfather of the present vicar of 

 Irthington, when the health of the Prince as Regent was drunk in 

 the market place by the Highlanders, "deliberately proposed the 

 health of King George" (Mounsey, p. 50). 



On Saturday, the i6th, the duke of Perth "proclaimed King 

 James, attended by the mayor and ciyil officers in their robes, 



