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Notes on a Jacobite Family Document. By Delaval 



Knight Gregson and William Maddan, 



Berwick-on-Tweed. 



So MUCH interest has in recent years been taken in all 

 that concerns Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rising 

 of 1745, that little, if any, excuse is required for directing 

 attention to a Warrant of Protection by the Pretender in 

 favour of John Gregson in Wark, a tenant of the Earl of 

 Tankerville, dated Kelso, 5th November 1745, and never 

 before published. Through the favour of Mr Harold S. 

 Knight Gregson, ninth and youngest son of the late Mr 

 Henry Gregson, D.L., of Low Lynn, we are able to present 

 a facsimile (Plate XI.) of this interesting family document. 

 For an account of John Gregson, tenant of Wark, see Club's 

 Transactions for 1890-1891, pp. 392-3, communicated by the 

 late Mr R. G. Bolam. The Warrant runs in the following 

 rather grandilo(juent terms : — 



Charles Prince of Wales, &c.. Regent of 

 Scotland, England, France and Ireland, 

 and the Dominions thereunto belonging : 

 To all his Majesty's Officers, Civil or 

 Military, 



These are requiring you to protect and defend 

 the Estate house and effects of John Greigson 

 in Wark, in the County of Northumberland, from 

 all violence or injuries to be done against them 

 by any person or persons whomsoever. Given 

 at Kelso the fifth day of November 1745. 



By his Highness's Command, 



Jo. Murray. 



It bears the signature in a fine old hand of the famous, 

 or rather infamous, John Murray of Broughton, who played 

 an unhappy part as the Prince's Secretary and as Government 

 witness afterwards. There is an interesting and graphic notice 

 of him in Sir Walter Scott's Life of Lockhart, chapter vi.. 



