Chapter XXV: A.d. 1715 (3)

[699] “Buxton’s sermon gave mighty encouragement to the hearers, being full of exhortations, flourishing arguments, and cunning insinuations, to be hearty and zealous in the cause; for he was a man of a very comely personage, and could humour his discourse to induce his hearers to believe what he preached, having very good natural parts, and being pretty well read.”--_Patten_, p. 29.

[700] Patten, pp. 31, 32.--_Annals of George I._, pp. 74, 75.--Rae, pp. 241, 242.

[701] Rae, pp. 243-245.

[702] Rae. _Faithful Register of the late Rebellion._ London, 1718.

[703] _Annals of George I._, pp. 89-91. Patten, pp. 8, 9.

[704] Rae.

[705] Rae, p. 263.

[706] _Letter to Mr. Forster_, 21st October, 1715.

[707] _Annals of George I._, p. 98. Patten, p. 18. Rae, p. 265.

[708] Patten, p. 20.

[709] Patten, p. 20. _Annals of George I._, p. 101.

[710] “All the lords that were Protestants, with a vast multitude of people, attended: It was very agreeable to see how decently and reverently the very common Highlanders behaved, and answered the responses according to the Rubrick, to the shame of many that pretend to more polite breeding.”--_Patten_, p. 40.

[711] Patten, p. 49.

[712] _Annals of 2d year of George I._, p. 123. Patten, pp. 53, 64, 65.

[713] Rae.

[714] _Annals of 2d year of George I._, p. 128.

[715] Patten, pp. 67, 68. Rae, pp. 271, 272.

[716] Patten, p. 69.

[717] _Letter about the Occurrences on the way to, and at Preston. By an Eye Witness_, p. 4.

[718] Patten, p. 89.

[719] _Annals of 2d Year of George I._, p. 136.

[720] _Letter, &c., by an eye-witness_, p. 6.

[721] Patten, p. 97, et seq. _Annals of 2d year of George I._, p. 125, et seq. _Faithful Register of the late Rebellion_, pp. 162, 163, 164.