But Mackintosh and some others are fled,

Who’d set the hat on another man’s head.

[58] Mackintosh’s Battalion consisted of thirteen companies of fifty men each.

[59] Thomas Forster, jun. of Etherston, near Belford, in Northumberland, member of Parliament of the said county, was made general of the Pretender’s Army; he was taken prisoner at Preston, but afterwards escaped out of Newgate, 1716.

[60] James Radclyffe, Earl of Derwentwater, was beheaded on Tower Hill, 24th February, 1715-16.


A Fragment of a Song, on the Lord of Derwentwater.

The king has written a broad letter,

And seal’d it up with gold;