With flour and tallow mixed in lieu of oil.
Then beef and pudding plentifully eat,
With store of cheering Husque[[651]] to their meat.
Their spir’ts thus raised, their work becomes a play,
New vigour drives all former stops away.
The place from that received another name,
And Oxbridge rises to all future fame.’
We derive some interesting facts about Wade’s proceedings at this time from his correspondence, still in manuscript.[[652]]
Writing to the Secretary of State, Lord Townsend, Edinburgh, 9th August 1726, he says: ‘I can with satisfaction assure your lordship that the Disarming Act has fully answered all that was proposed by it, there being no arms carried in the Highlands but by those who are legally qualified; depredations are effectually prevented by the Highland companies; and the Pretender’s interest is so low, that I think it can hope for no effectual assistance from that quarter.’
Dating from Killiwhimmen [Fort Augustus] on the 16th of the ensuing month, he tells his lordship: