She fancied he was some exiled Jacobite, and was ready to hear a pitiful romance.

And on the opposite fringes of the Arabic-speaking area there are fragments of population whose language is Semitic but pre-Arabicthe Jacobite Christians of the Tor-Abdin, and the Nestorians of the Upper Zab, who once, under the Caliphs, were the industrious Christian peasantry of Mesopotamia, but now are shepherds and hillmen among the Kurds.

Hickes, he says, was at the head of the Jacobite party.

After his death, a zealous Jacobite gentleman gave twenty guineas for them.

It is a description of manners peculiar to the Scottish gentry in the middle of the eighteenth century, especially among the Jacobite families then passing away.

It is a description of the first Jacobite rising against George I. in the year 1715.

When the Forster estates were sold and their debts paid, there was scarcely anything left for the heirsLady Crewe and her nephew, Thomas Forster, who afterwards became the General of the ill-fated Jacobite rising in 1715, and whose escape after his capture was contrived by his high-spirited sister, Dorothy Forster the second.

If the Castle has had any appreciable share of romantic incidents in its history, the records thereof seem to be unknown; but one which has come down to us is the account of its daring capture by an ardent North-country Jacobite, Lancelot Errington, in 1715.

Derwentwater took little part in these attempts to organise rebellion for some time, but at length was drawn into the dangerous game, as he was too valuable an asset to be passed over by the Jacobite party.

Tradition has it that his decision was brought about by the taunts of his Countess, who, like the rest of the Jacobite ladies, was more enthusiastic than the men.

Newcastle was to have been their next objective, but, hearing that the city had closed its gates, and intended to hold out for King George, the Jacobite force, after some indecision, returned northward to Rothbury, where they were joined by a large company of Scottish Jacobites under Lord Kenmure.

Young Derwentwater had fought valiantly and worked arduously at the barricades, but Forsterwhose appointment as General had been made in the hope of attracting other Protestant gentry to the Jacobite causeoffered to submit to General Carpenter under certain conditions.

The Wars of the Roses passed it by; and the Civil Wars in Stuart days also, except for an unimportant skirmish; and the only part Corbridge saw of the Jacobite rising of "The Fifteen" was the little cavalcade from Dilston which clattered over the old bridge on its way to Beaufront.

The impotence of the Hanoverian Sovereigns has raised the English loyal subject almost to the chivalry and dignity of a Jacobite.

In 1698 Jeremy Collier, a non-juring Jacobite clergyman, published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, which did much toward reforming the practice of the dramatists.

To this purely poetic loyalty may be attributed such Jacobite ballads of Burns as Over the Water to Charlie.

" "Is this a Jacobite plot?"

How come you, an honest Whig, as you say, to be privy to a Jacobite plot?

He remembered a Highlander who had followed the army of Prince Charles Edward in 1745, and had learned from another Highlander the Jacobite soldiers' song

HOGG, James, Jacobite Relics, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1819.

But the Revolution brought indulgence even to the Jacobite Press; and when the Commons, in 1695, refused to renew the Licensing Act, a censorship of the press was for ever renounced by the law of England.'

Nevertheless, when the Revolution of 1688 came, he took the side of the deposed monarch, and loyally adhered to his Jacobite principles for the remainder of his life.

He published a Jacobite paper, called the "Rehearsal," and was a strenuous assertor of divine right; but he was also so steady a Protestant, that he went to Bar-le-Duc to convert the Chevalier de St George from the errors of Rome.

After which I hope it will be impossible for the malice of a Jacobite, highflying, priestridden faction, to misrepresent us.

" He went on to say that the spot had been chosen advisedly, with a view to communication with the opposite coast, where his old connection with the smugglers was likely to be useful in the Jacobite plots.