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" There were no Hostilities used here, only the Horse 

 o-oino- out a Foraging, went to a Seat of the Duke of Rox- 



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burgh's near the Town, and brought in some Hay. While 

 they continued here, Dr. Arthur, a Gentleman concerned in 

 that designed Attempt upon the Castle of Edinburgh, of 

 very good Parts, and generous Education, and one Mr. 

 Cunningham of Barnes, came from the Earl of Mar with 

 Intelligence, and returned to him again; after which, the 

 same Gentleman came again to the Rebels when at Preston." 

 We hear of him next in Italy, and from Rome he wrote 

 the autobiographical account of the Castle plot reproduced 

 above, and which was transmitted to Mar by Dr. Roger 

 Kenyon, as the following letter — also transcribed from the 

 Calendar of the Stuart Papers — explains : — 



"Dr. Roger Kenyon to the Duke of Mar. 



" 1716, October 17. Rome. — Enclosed is the legacy of an 

 honest man, and a very faithful subject, Mr. Arthur, who. 

 after escaping a thousand dangers in the King's cause, met 

 his death where he came for safety by eating a few figs, 

 which threw him into a dysentry. The day before he died, 

 he ordered these papers to be delivered me, and desired me 

 to send them you with some excuse for their coming in a 

 form so little lit for your perusal. Had God allowed him a 

 longer time, that would have been amended, and you would 

 have received with these an account of what passed at 

 Preston in his observation. You will receive them just as 

 they were delivered me, and I have only to add, that, 

 several being named who may yet be in danger or un- 

 willing to be generally known, he assured himself you 

 would take care, that living or dying, he might be hurtful 

 to nobody. I had known him only since my coming here, 

 but, as far as I could judge, besides a true zeal in the 

 King's cause, an excellent heart, and no talents wanting 

 to have made him most useful in his station, he seemed to 

 be a great lover of truth, not only so as not to alter it, but 

 even to speak it, where it might not be over grateful. 

 This may make his relation even in the lesser circum- 

 stances of it, of more regard, and, since it came to my 

 hands, it has been seen by nobody. We had permission 

 to bury him by the sepulchre of Cestius, a piece of an- 



