s near the door, which stood open to receive
him, a gentleman stepped out of the crowd, drew his sword, and raising
his arm aloft, walked up stairs before Charles. The person who enlisted
himself in this manner, was James Hepburn of Keith, whose name will be
mentioned again more than once....

The Highlanders, when they entered the town in the morning, had secured
the Heralds and Pursuivants: at midday they surrounded the Cross with a
body of armed men, and obliged the Heralds to proclaim King James, to
read the Commission of Regency, and the Declaration, dated at Rome, in
December 1743, with a Manifesto in the name of Charles Prince Regent,
dated at Paris, 16th of May, 1745. An immense multitude witnessed this
ceremony, which was performed at noon. The populace of a great city, who
huzza for any thing that brings them together, huzzaed; and a number of
ladies in the windows strained their voices with acclamation, and their
arms with waving white handkerchiefs in honour of the day. These
demonstrations of joy, amongst people of condition, were chiefly
confined to one sex; few gentlemen were to be seen on the streets, or in
the windows; and even amongst the inferior people, many shewed their
dislike by a stubborn silence.

FOOTNOTES:

[87] On September 17.

E. THE BATTLE OF PRESTONPANS (SEPTEMBER).

+Source.+--_Memorials of John Murray of Broughton, sometime
Secretary to Prince Charles Edward_, 1740-1747, p. 198. Edited by
Robert Fitzroy Bell. (Edinburgh: Scottish Historical Society, 1898.)

On thursday the 19th, in the evening, the Chevalier had certain
intelligence that G^ll Cope had marched that morning from Dunbar, and
was to encamp that night at Haddingtown, upon which he immediately gave
orders for the guards of the City to retire early next morning, and he
went himself that night to Duddingston....

In obedience to the orders given on the morning of the twentieth the
guards retired from the City and joined the army at Duddingston, and
brought alongst with them some surgeons, with whom the army was then
very ill provided, and some coaches and chaises were likewise ordered
for the conveniency of the wounded, so certain was the prospect of a
battle, and even a successful one. Thus all things being prepared about
nine in the morning, after receiving an exact account of the number of
the enemy taken at Haddington, the Chevalier put himself at the head of
his small army, drawing his sword,