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Excerpt from English Jacobite Ballads, Songs and Satires, Etc: From the Mss; At Towneley Hall, Lancashire
Rom contemporary Histories (so-called) of the Scottish Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 in Prose and Verse -among the latter shrewd and quaint dougall graham's now seldom-seen little tome - from the elaborate narratives by robert chambers and the still more ambitious His tory of Scotland by Dr. John hill burton - whose Lives of forbes of Culloden and Lord lovat long pre ceded it - and from many other less or more historically trustworthy books as john home's Account and Dr. Dodd ridge's Life of Colonel gardiner, as well as from family biographies and monographs, and gradually accumulating discoveries and recoveries of national and local mss. - it is not at all difficult to arrive at a tolerably vivid idea of the Men and the Events of these periods. Thither the student reader will turn in his examination of the various problems historical and ethical started by the Rebellions, and that romance in the eighteenth century after the type Of the Age of Chivalry, the yearning of the heart of Scotland toward the old line of Kings, not without response in England. The sentiment in itself was not without a certain nobleness and pathos. The heather was on fire and I for one have no words of contumely for the Highlanders in the know ledge that whatever Bonnie Prince Charlie ultimately became, certes in his radiant youth he must have had an electric winsomeness, while at his worst he was better than the Georges at their best. I say this the more readily that I regard it as a national benediction that the Stuarts.
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