[95] It will be remembered that Mr. Forster’s want of generalship lost the battle of Prestonpans.
[96] See chap. vii. for this and other escapes.
[97] For this Dalton was convicted and fined fifty marks, with imprisonment for one year, also to find security for three more years.
[98] Parson Paul was the Rev. William Paul, M.A., vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, in Leicestershire. He met the rebels at Preston, and performed service there, praying for the Pretender as King James the Third. When the royal troops invested Preston, Mr. Paul escaped “in coloured clothes, a long wig, a laced hat, and a sword by his side.” He came to London, and was recognized in St. James’s Park by a Leicestershire magistrate, who apprehended him, and he was committed to Newgate.
[99] One of the Halls of Otterburn, Northumberland, and a magistrate for the county. He joined the Pretender early, and was one of his most active and staunch supporters.
[100] No doubt a form of the gaol fever.
[101] ‘Secret History.’
[102] See ante, p. 203.
[103] According to the deposition of Harris the informer, Bernardi came with Rookwood to London on purpose to meet Barclay the chief conspirator.
[104] Pike, ‘Hist, of Crime,’ ii. 83.