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book that they "would not be relieved". But it was fortunate 

 for the duke, who was an incapable commander, that the city 

 surrendered as it did ; since his arrangements for conducting the 

 siege, in the opinion of the prince's ablest general, Lord George 

 Murray, were very defective. 



The visit to "Squire Warwick's house", mentioned in the 

 household book, "was, no doubt", says Mr. Mounsey, "on the 

 13th", the day of "the muster at Warwick Bridge". The squire, 

 though a Jacobite and a Roman Catholic, was prudently "out of 

 the way", leaving the prince to be entertained by his wife, "a 

 daughter of Thomas Howard, of Corby Castle, of a family which 

 had fought and bled for Charles the First". So pleased was the 

 prince with his reception at Warwick Hall that "he observed that 

 these were the first Christian people he had met with since he 

 crossed the Border" (Mounsey, p. 45-6)- 



Bearing in mind that observation we must assign to a later day 

 in the same week a visit which he is alleged to have paid about 

 that time to another Jacobite family. The late Mr. W. H. 

 Henfrey, the well-known numismatist, wrote to me some years ago, 

 stating that there was a tradition in his family, corroborated by 

 letters and other documents in his possession, that his great-great- 

 grandparents, whose name was Hetherington, but of whose resi- 

 dence he only knew that it was somewhere in Cumberland, had on 

 one occasion entertained Prince Charles Stuart in the '45 ; and he 

 asked me to aid him in his endeavours to localize them. This led 

 to my having much correspondence with Mr. Henfrey, who in one 

 of his letters said : — 



Mrs. Hetherington, who was a great Jacobite, subsequently left Cumberland, 

 and came with her daughters (she had no son) to reside in London. She was a 

 great friend of Lady Primrose ; and both ladies hid and entertained Prince 

 Charles Edward when he paid his secret visits to London. It is now known 

 for certain that on one of those visits he was formally received into the 

 Protestant faith at the church of St. Mary-le-Strand. I have an independent 

 family account of this interesting occurrence ; which Mrs. Hetherington greatly 

 assisted in bringing about. I have also the Bible the prince used on the 

 occasion. 



