I ^8 History of the Company. 



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To which His Royal Highness was pleased to 

 answer to the following effect :— 



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" Gentlemen — Your dutifull expressions of loyalty to 

 my Father are very agreeable to me, and I give you 

 mine and the Princess's Thanks for this repeated 

 instance of your great respect to us and my Familly 

 and I shall take all opportunitys of shewing my regard 

 to the Company." 



''And they all had the honour to kiss their Royal 

 Highnesses' hands, and were afterwards by his 

 Royal Highnesses Command regaled with wine." 



The loyalty of the Company during the period 

 of the Rebellion was not confined to 

 words, as on the 12th December, 

 1745, we find the Court resolved that — 



" In commiseration of the particular hardships and 

 inconveniencys which must be suffered by such soldiers 

 as are employed in his Majesties Service during the 

 winter season towards the suppression of the present 

 unnatural Rebellion to subscribe the sum of one hundred 

 pounds to be applied towards their Relief, Support and 

 Encouragement pursuant to a scheme lately published 

 commonly called the Veteran Scheme, and for that 

 purpose it is ordered that the Renter Warden do 

 forthwith pay the said sume into the Chamber of 

 London." 



The Prince of Wales died In 1751/ at the age 



of forty-four, and In the following 



^^^^' year the title of Prime Warden of 



^ The event produced the following ribald but familiar 

 Jacobite epitaph : — 



