302 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



the recollection of the fair-haired daughters of 

 the ' land of the mountain and the flood ' ; the 

 rude, loving Highlanders who had drawn 

 their claymores at Culloden, that the ' bonnie 

 Prince might enjoy his ain again,' were still 

 faithful to his memory ; the mouldering, 

 ghastly heads of their clansmen, each of whom 

 had issued forth on the fatal sledge, side by 

 side with his executioner, from beneath the 

 massive portcullis of Carlisle Castle, to the 

 dark scaffold on Harraby Hill, had but a few 

 years before been the awe and wonder of the 

 market people as they viewed them spiked 

 above the iron gates of that ancient border 

 town. A century earlier, from ward and keep 

 at midnight, in his own baronial castle of 

 Naworth, ' bugles blew for Belted Will,' as 

 the moss-troopers scoured through the park 

 on their marauding forays. His youthful lot 

 in the latter years of that stirring century was 

 cast in an age teeming with giant intellects, 

 who scarce found their equals even under the 

 fostering sway of Elizabeth. Sir Joshua 

 Reynolds, w r eary with the labours of his 

 easel, and Samuel Johnson, with the faithful 

 Boswell, eagerly listening for ' thoughts that 



