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Gentleman's Magazine 1745 p.604
[con]tinuing till midnight. On the same day the two regiments commanded by Ld Ogilvy and Gordon of Glenbucket cross'd the river, about two miles above Rowcliff, at which time they were counted, and found both together to make up to but 400.
Nov. 15. A letter, dated the 12th Inst. from Mr Thomas Pattenson, mayor of Carlisle, brings advice, that on Saturday night, the 9th Inst. that city was surrounded by about 9000 Highlanders; that at three o'clock that afternoon he, the mayor, had receiv'd a message from them, to provide billets for 13,000 men, and to be ready that night, which he refused: That the next day, at three in the afternoon, he receiv'd a message in writing from the person stiling himself Prince Charles, and subscribed Charles P.R. in the following words:
"Charles Prince of Wales, Regent of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging."
"Bring come to recover the king our father's just rights, for which we have arriv'd with all his authority, we are sorry to find that you should prepare to obstruct our passage: We therefore, to avoid the effusion of English blood, hereby require you to open your gates, and let us enter, as we desire, in a peaceable manner; which if you do, we shall take care to preserve you from any insult, and set an example to all England of the exactness with which we intend to fulfil the king our father's declarations and our own: But if you shall refuse us entrance, we are fully resolv'd to force it by such means as providence has put into our hands, and then it will not perhaps be in our power to prevent the dreadful consequences which usually attend a town's being taken by assault. Consider seriously of this, and let me have your answer within the space of two hours, for we shall take any farther delay as a peremptory refusal, and take our measures accordingly."
"November 10, 1745, Two in the Afternoon.
"For the Mayor of Carlisle."
That he, the mayor, had return;'d no answer thereto but by firing the cannon upon them: That the said pretended prince, the Duke of Perth, with several other gentlemen, lay within a mile or two of the city; but that their whole army was, at the time of dispatching the above advice, march'd for Brampton, seven miles on the high road to Newcastle.
Nov. 16. By advices from the North of the 12th at night there are accounts, that the main body of the rebels march'd upon the 11th to Brampton. The pretender's son lodged on the 9th night at Murray's, at a little village three miles West of Carlisle, on the 10th night at Blackhall three miles South of Carlisle, and was at Warwick castle by ten o'clock on the 11th. A body of the rebels, which the garrison took for the rear guard, appear'd the same day upon Stanwix Bank, but the guns firing upon them, they fled in great haste. The same night this body took up their quarters at Rickarby, and at several villages near it upon the North side of the river Eden; but receiving an express ordering them to march to Brampton without loss of time, they set out immediately from thence, but were not able to march above a mile and a half that night, their carriage-horses having fail'd them. Some stragglers had been brought into Carlisle, and two carriages laden with bisket. Upon the 12th the rebels remain'd at Brampton, Warwick Bridge, and the villages between those two places. They gave out that their whole army was to join that night, and that they had orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at ten o'clock, upon the 13th. They had 16 field-pieces along with them, and seem'd to be greatly supriz'd that the town of Carlisle had not surrender'd upon their appearance before it the Sunday before.
Nov. 16, The following intelligence was reciev'd this morning from Penrith in the county of Cumberland, dated the 13th Inst.
The rebels who continued before Carlisle from Saturday till Monday last, retreated with their carriages and 16 field pieces to Brampton, eight miles from thence. They have continued there, and have been collecting their forces till nine this morning. Two persons of good character came to Penrith at five this evening, and declar'd they saw a large body of the rebels, which they gave out to be 7000, moving from Brampton to Carlisle, and heard numbers of them declare they were going to besiege it in form. That the rebels forced four carpenters to go along with them from Brampton, in order (as they said) to assist in erecting batteries. The said two persons further added, that the guns of the garrison of Carlisle were firing very briskly, as they came on the road hither. Numbers of persons who have likewise been at Brampton from Penrith are return'd, and all agree as to the march of the rebels and their artillery from Brampton towards Carlisle. The rebels have been felling wood all this day in Corby and Warwick parks for the repairs of their carriages, as they give out, and making batteries and scaling-ladders.
From the Gazette, Nov. 19.
Whitehall, Nov. 18. Letters from marshal Wade of the 15th Inst. mention, that upon the news receiv'd by him of the resolution of the rebels to return from Brampton, in order to make an attempt upon Carlisle, it had been determin'd in a council of war, held the same day thereupon, to march on Saturday morning the 16th Inst. by Hexham towards Carlisle.
Letters of the 14th Inst. from Penrith mention, that it was affirm'd by great numbers of persons who were come thither from the villages on the South and West sides of Carlisle, that the whole rebel army were endeavouring to surround that city. That they shot at every body that fled from them, and that one person had been killed, and that they were actually putting the country under military execution. That they seized all able-bodied men, horses and carriages, and declared that they would force them to carry their ladders to the walls of Carlisle: That the cannon of Carlisle were firing that morning very briskly: That
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