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his instructions, Wills at once invested the town and made many 
but unsuccessful attempts to carry it by storm. Old MacIntosh had 
been allowed his own way, and by well-placed barricades in the 
narrow streets in the centre of the town he was able easily to 
hold his own against the dismounted dragoons, for Wills was 
almost without infantry. Luckily General Carpenter with 2,500 
horse arrived early next morning. He at once saw a grave error 
Wills had made in carelessly leaving a way open at the Fisher- 
gate side of the town by which numbers were leaving and had 
left the place. This he promptly put right. Now the motley 
erew of fox-hunting squires, gentlemen soldiers, ill-armed foot- 
men, and Highlanders found themselves face to face with an 
enemy whom they must either conquer or surrender to. Forster, 
urged it is said- by Lord Widdrington, and without consulting 
with many of his gallant comrades in arms, sent Colonel Oxburg 
to negociate, and ultimately on the next day—November 14th, 
1715—the little army, now only 1,550 men, surrendered at dis- 
cretion. As far as can now be gathered there fell in this fight 
some 18 or 19 on the rebel side, and probably about 300 of the 
King’s men were either killed or wounded. The prisoners were 
at once sent under strong escort—the rebel lords and principal 
gentlemen to London, others of the commoner sort to Liverpool, 
Chester, and Lancaster. 
[A number of portraits of those whose names are known in 
connection with these troubles was exhibited by the writer, who 
gave a brief account of some of them.] 
Of the Earl of Derwentwater it is unnecessary to say much, 
as the subject has been so fully and carefully treated in a recent 
notice of him (Vhe last of the Derwentwaters, by J. F. Crosthwaite. 
Cockermouth. 1874.) It was his misfortune that, by the ties of 
religion, acquaintance, and near relationship to the exiled royal 
family, he was drawn into this affair. And there is little doubt 
that a fear that his personal attachment to the Stuarts must 
again inevitably lead him to espouse their cause, together with the 
danger the Government felt from his vast wealth and territorial 
influence, made him a special object of punishment. This was 
carried even beyond justice in the case of his relations, in order 
that the family fortune might be reduced—more than one private 
Act of Parliament being passed to make this possible. The Earl 
of Derwentwater and Viscount Kenmure were executed on Tower 
Hill, February 24th, 1716. 
The gallant Colonel Oxburg was a Roman Catholic officer of 
good family, who, under pretence of a tour in search of the 
beautiful in art and nature, had during the early part of the year 
been stirring up the Jacobite party in many counties, and making 
all arrangements for this rising. It is somewhat curious his life 
was not spared on account of his honourable conduct of the 
