“Heard you of orders from our Prince,

“If we had Culloden battle won,

“That quarters should be giv’n to none?”

To which Kilmarnock answer’d, NO;

NOR I, Sir; cry’d Balmerino,

“It seems this on invention borders,

“To justify this way of murders.”

“No, said the Earl, “by inference just,

“To tell the truth, for so we must,

“While prisoners at Inverness,