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A Remarkable Escape from the
Rebel Army
Narrative of a Remarkable Escape from the Rebel Army in
1745
[following] The recent publication of the Culloden Papers
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... I have been induced to look over some papers in my
possession relating to it that had long lain unattended to.
Among these a letter, giving an account of a remarkable
escape from the Rebel army while at Derby ... the Narrative
has never yet appeared in print, further than a few
particulars of the occurrence being inserted, rather
incorrectly, in a small volume printed in a cheap form at
Carlisle in 1755, entitled, "A Complete History of the
Rebellion, from its first Rise in 1745, to its total
suppression in April 1746. By James Ray, of Whitehaven,
Volunteer under his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland;"
a publication which, notwithstanding its homely garb and
style, is not inferior, as a record of facts, to some of
much higher pretensions.
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