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for that if they vshould receive but just checks, it would bee 

 enough to breed discontent in them, over whom the king was 

 allready not causelessly jealous, that they had noe great zeale 

 to serve him in this quarrell for the pride and unlimited power 

 of bishops. And the ill order in billiting the extraordinarie 

 servants, the chardge and trouble they were put too for their 

 carriadges, and the generall disregard they found, together with 

 a consciousness of their ignorance in martiall discipline, and 

 the little care taken to instruct them, the insufficiency of those 

 officers that should doe it : the great bruite^^ of the ennemye's 

 strength and theire able commanders, did beget a distrust in 

 most, and a murmure in others, which noe doubt tooke a 

 deepe impression in the clergie who were vigilant spies over 

 all men's words and actions in this journey, and noe question 

 rendred an account to their metropolitan how the pulse of 

 the king's power did beate, and accordingly the councell given 

 was either more sharpe or more remisse, and at last finding 

 theire dignity (as they thought) betrayed, they feared a greater 

 mischiefe if they had refused to bee soe deceived, as in the 

 end they were. 



[May.] The 24th beeing Friday, the Lord Carnarvon's troope 

 was commanded away to Belford,^-^^ 12 mile, and were noe sooner 

 come thither but were sent back againe by Sir Henry Hungett, 

 our quarter master, which bred confused thoughts in many to 

 conjecture the cause. Some thought the Scotts had made an 

 inroad e into the countrey and were not farre of, and therefore 

 the king would not adventure us soe farre onwards, and weaken 



•'^ Bruit = a report, rumour. 



'■^^' 1745. "From Alnwick our next day's march was to Belford twelve 

 miles, a poor, small thoroughfare post-town having only one house for 



the reception of travellers Hereabouts we frequently saw 



countrymen plowing with four couple of oxen and one of horses, the 

 ground being so hard and stony does here commonly require ten and 



twelve cattle, as also in many parts of Scotland we saw the same 



This place was so small that we were obliged to be cantoned all over 



the adjacent villages " — Journey through Part of England and 



Scotland along with the Army under the Command of H.R.H. the Duke 

 of Cumberland, By a Volunteer, p. 48, second edition, London, 1747. 



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