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where, as stated in the parish register, he married Margaret 

 Thompson in 1791, and died in 1839 at the alleged age 

 of one hundred and eight. That Robert Campbell the younger 

 told this story exactly as he had it from his father no one who 

 knew him will doubt ; for he was a very truthful, staid, sober- 

 minded man. Nor, apart from the question of his father's age is 

 there anything improbable in the story itself; for it is certain that 

 boys of fourteen years of age did cross the border with the prince 

 (Ewald, i, 276). But Robert Campbell the elder's reputed age I 

 was never able to verify, as his son could not tell me to which 

 parish in Argyllshire to write for his baptismal register. 



Brampton parish register, by the way, has this entry in 1745 : 

 Nov. 13. John son of Archibald Henderson of Argyllshire baptized. 

 The occurrence of this baptism during the occupation of Brampton 

 by the Highlanders, if merely a coincidence, is a very curious one; 

 for the description of Archibald Henderson as "of Argyllshire" 

 stamps him a stranger in Brampton. 



The vicar who baptized the child, Mr. John Thomas, father of 

 Dr. Thomas, bishop of Rochester, had evidently not thought it 

 necessary to leave the town because of the presence of the invading 

 army. 'Of course not', it may be said. Well, but the records of 

 Bram-pton Presbyterian church, in 1745, contain this memorandum : 



November 10 and 17. No sermon the minr being out of ye town 

 because ye rebels Vi'ere in it. 



The minister seems to have been rather in a hurry to get out of 

 the town; for on the first of those two Sundays, November 10, 

 only a few straggling Highlanders could have arrived. I don't 

 think that his predecessor, Mr. Israel Bennett, would have been 

 "out of ye town" at such a time; for Mr. Bennett, who was then 

 at Carlisle, where he was one of those who protested against the 

 conduct of the militia, was, with others, commended by Chancellor 

 Waugh as having behaved "with coolness and resolution" (Moun- 

 sey, p. 52). But, though the vicar did not leave the town, there 

 may yet have been "no sermon", or Sunday service of any kind, 

 in the parish church, at all events on November 17 ; for there was 



