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In another letter he informed me that Mrs. Hetherington's 

 eldest daughter, Ann, who was married to his great-grandfather, a 

 captain in the Guards, at Hampton church, in 1770, used to 

 describe how "she remembered kissing the prince's hand with 

 great ceremony when she was quite a little girl ; when she noticed 

 the webbing of his fingers, though he wore long ruffles to disguise 

 it". The second daughter, Jane, was married in 17 71 to Benjamin 

 Wilson, historical painter, and became mother of the famous 

 general Sir Robert Wilson. Of the third and youngest daughter, 

 Mary, he had no information. The object of our investigation 

 was to find the baptismal certificates of these three sisters, which 

 of course would indicate their parents' residence. Many parish 

 registers did I search for this purpose ; but lost my way among 

 the innumerable Hetheringtons of Brampton and its vicinity. 



Near Warwick Bridge, on Wednesday, the 13th, while the prince 

 was dining at the hall close by, there was busy work going on, 

 exacted from unwilling hands, in the neighbouring woods. The 

 Carlisle Patriot of February 24, 1821, in its obituary had the 

 following paragraph : — • 



At Brampton on Sunday last, at the extreme age of loi, Mr. John Heward, 

 carpenter. This venerable man worked 60 years in the employment of the 

 Earl of Carlisle, and daily walked to his labour a distance of three miles till he 

 was 96, and was generally the first person on the spot. During the rebellion 

 of 1745 he was pressed by the rebels, who conveyed him to Corby, and there 

 compelled him to make ladders, with which they designed to scale the wails of 

 Carlisle. Whilst engaged in this employment he saw Prince Charlie, and picked 

 up from various sources considerable information as to that young adventurer's 

 operations, which he was fond of relating to the day of his death. 



That Brampton carpenters were taken by the Highlanders on 

 November 13th to Warwick Bridge and forced to make ladders is 

 a historical fact ; recorded by the Gentleman'' s Magazine of the 

 period (voL xvi, p. 604) in its "Advices from the North"; also 

 attested by Mr. Israel Bennett, formerly Presbyterian minister at 

 Brampton, who before November in 1745 had removed to Carlisle 

 (Mounsey, p. 68). The reason why the Highlanders were under 

 the necessity of having new ladders made was because there were 



