[1034] Boyse, p. 164.
[1035] Marchant, p. 202. Boyse, p. 164.
[1036] Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 78.
[1037] Burton discredits these statements, there being, he says, no contemporary evidence in their favour.—Scotland (1689–1747), vol. ii. p. 483.
[1038] Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 75.
[1039] Idem, p. 67.
[1040] Burton appears to think that there was little danger of any serious consequences following the possession of London by Charles. “The days were long past,” he says, “when the rising of a body of the English gentry brought a certain force into the field; and a few wealthy peers and squires, with their lacqueys and grooms, would have gone little way to help some five thousand janissaries in keeping down the people of England.”—Scotland (1689–1747), vol. ii. p. 485.
[1041] Lord George Murray’s Narrative. Kirkconnel MS.
[1042] Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 71.
[1043] There seems to be an apparent discrepancy between Lord George’s statement, (Jacobite Memoirs, p. 55,) and that of the Chevalier Johnstone, (Memoirs, p. 71,) relative to the conduct of the Duke of Perth: but the account in the text agrees with the account of Charles himself, (in Appendix, No. 33, to Home’s Works,) who says, that with the exception of himself, all the members of the council “were of opinion that the retreat was absolutely necessary.”