Gents Mag 1746 p.598
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Gentleman's Magazine 1746 p.598
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Westmorland 1745 Rebellion |
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1745 Rebellion,
Westmorland
Mr URBAN, I Beg leave, by your means, to publish a short vindication of the moral and political character of the county of Westmoreland, which the late troubles have given occasion to be evil spoken of. 1. It was represented to his majesty's judges of assize, in their circuit last year, that five men in six of the county were Jacobites, and disaffected persons: whereas it is now well known, and the judges this year made us a compliment upon it, that in the rebels march the whole length of our county, southwards and northwards, not one person joined them: Which is more than most counties can say. from the Orkneys to the Peak in Derbyshire. 2. A certain person, of great rank and distinction, was pleased in the public papers to represent the common people of Westmoreland to be as savage and inhuman as the rebels; and the reason was, because it was suggested, that they had taken a dead rebel out of his grave, and insulted his carcass. It is a pity he had not been informed, that this was not done by the common people of the county of Westmoreland, but by the new-rais'd reg--ts. It would be unjust to retort the charge, and to draw a parallel betwixt the rebels, and some of the new reg--ts; because as the common people in general would not have been answerable, if the accusation had been true, for the crimes of two or three villains; so the officers cannot always insure the behaviour of every individual soldier. 3. If it be affirmed that we are an evil and adulterous generation, we appeal to those three worthy mem--s, who came this summer upon our mountains - to catch birds, whether they would have been at the trouble and cost of bringing ladies of pleasure likewise along with them, for the space of near two hundred miles, if they had known or believed that there had been one wh-re in the county. 4. As to the imputation of prophaneness and Sabbath-breaking, we appeal to them, whether in passing and repassing on Sundays, they ever observed any person following his weekly employment on that day, save only the man with the cart, who carried their baggage: or to those other south-country gentlemen, who honoured us with their company on the same errand, whether thay did not on Sunday forenoon observe numbers of people passing and repassing to and from church, if they had time to look off at cards, in one of the gardens in the town of ---. I am, Sir, &c. WESTMORELANDICUS. |
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