[1063] Kirkconnel MS.
[1064] Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 87.
[1065] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 66.
[1066] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 68.
[1067] Idem, p. 67.
[1068] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 72.—Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. p. 463.
[1069] Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 92.
[1070] Kirkconnel MS.
[1071] Alluding to the retention of Carlisle, Mr. Maxwell observes, “This was perhaps the worst resolution the prince had taken hitherto. I cannot help condemning it, though there were specious pretexts for it. It was, to be sure, much for the prince’s reputation upon leaving England, to keep one of the keys of it, and he was in hopes of returning before it could be taken; but he could not be absolutely sure of that, and the place was not tenable against a few pieces of artillery, of battering cannon, or a few mortars. It’s true he had a good many prisoners in Scotland, and might look upon them as pledges for the lives of those he left in garrison; but that was not enough. He did not know what kind of people he had to deal with, and he ought to be prepared against the worst that could happen. The lives of so many of his friends ought not to have been exposed without an indispensable necessity, which was not the case; for blowing up the castle, and the gates of the town, would have equally given him an entry into England.”
[1072] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 73.