mitted, at which being somewhat surprised, he turned pale, fell into a cold fweat, and when he was almoft fainting, ordered himself to be carried to bed, where, by the affiftance of cordials, being brought a little to himself, he made his will, with respect to his private affairs. Being removed to London, he became much worfe, grew firft lethargic, then delirious, from which he recovered a little, but was not capable of giving any distinct direction about public affairs. He was juft able to anfwer yes, to the demand, whether his fon Richard fhould be appointed to fucceed him. He died on the third of September, 1658, that very day which he had always confidered as the moft fortunate of his life; for on that day he won the two great victories of Dunbar and Worcester, in 1650, and 1651.A very pompous funeral was ordered at the public expence, and he was buried among our Kings, with a fplendor fuperior to any that has been bestowed on crowned heads.

We cannot conclude this account without remarking, that the author of the Complete Hiftory of England, obferves, in his notes, that it remains a queftion, where the body of Cromwell was really buried. "It was, fays he, to appearance in Westminster Abbey. Some report it was carried below the bridge, and thrown into the Thames. But it is most probable that it was buried in Nafeby field. This account, continues he, is given, as averred, and ready to b depofed, if occafion required, by Mr. Barkstead, for to Mr. Barkhead, the regicide, who was about fifteen years old at the time of Cromwell's death: That the faid Barktead, his father being Lieutenant of the Tower

Tower, and a great confident of Cromwell's, did, among other fuch confidents, in the time of his illnefs, defire to know where he would be buried: To which the Protector anfwered, where he had obtained the greatest victory and glory, and as nigh the spot as could be gueffed where the heat of the action was, viz. in the field at Nafeby Common, Northampton. Which accordingly was thus performed: At midnight, foon after his death, the body (being firft embalmed and wrapt in a leaden coffin) was in a hearfe conveyed to the faid field, Mr. Barktead himself attending, by order of his father, clofe to the hearfe. Being come to the field, they found about the midft of it, a grave dug about nine feet deep, with a green fod carefully laid on one fide, and the mould on the other; in which the coffin being put, the grave was inftantly filled up, and the green fod laid exactly flat upon it; care being taken that the furplus mould fhould be clean removed. Soon after the like care was taken that the field should be entirely ploughed up, and it was fown three or four years fucceffively with corn, Several other material circumstances, fays the forementioned author, the faid Mr. Barkhead relates, too long to be here inferted."

As to the ftory of his body being funk in the Thames, it was related by a gentlewoman who attended him in his laft fickness, as we are told by the author of the History of England during the reign of the royal House of Stuart, She told him, "That the day after the Protector's death, it was confulted how to difpofe of his corpfe; when it was concluded, that confidering the malice of the cavaliers, it was most

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certain that they would infult the body of their moft dreadful enemy, if ever it should be in their power; to prevent which it was refolved to wrap it up in lead, to put it on board a barge, and fink it in the deepest part of the Thames; which was undertaken and performed by two of his near relations, and fome trufty foldiers the following night." So that, upon the whole, it remains a doubt, whether his body was really carried in that pompous funeral proceffion to Westminster Abbey.

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

REBELLION,

IN

THE YEARS 1745, 1746, &c.

A

MONG the feveral attempts in favour of the

Pretender to the crown of Great-Britain, there were none conducted with fuch addrefs and fecrecy, as that which broke out in the fummer of the year 1745; and what is no lefs wonderful than true, fome who had engaged in the affociation to promote his advancement, were never very remarkable for fecrecy and referve.

The principal among the confpirators was Simon Lord Lovat, a nobleman of a crafty turn of mind, and who experienced the vifficitudes both of good and bad fortune in the early part of life, and in his more advanced years. When but young he committed a rape upon his aunt-in-law, the Lady Dowager of Lovat. To fcreen himself from juftice, he roamed about the Highlands and Western Ifles of Scotland, and at laft retired into France. During this period of

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his exile he became perfectly well acquainted with the nature of the people inhabiting these remote parts. As his mother was a daughter of the Laird of Macleod, and his grand-mother a daughter of Sir Donald Macdonald of Slate, fo his misfortunes only furnished him an opportunity of cultivating a correfpondence with the different families of these two chieftans, and the other heads of the clans. While in France he had occafion to be acquainted with the feveral orders among the Jefuits, and embracing the Roman Catholic religion, he cherished all her tenets, but none more than those of diffimulation and heretical perfidy; for though he lived and died a Roman Catholic, yet he frequently endeavoured to get himself elected as a member of the General Affembly of the Church of Scotland, and took the oaths once, and again to King William, to King George I. and II. in whofe reign he : was Captain of an independant company of High

landers for fifteen years; when in the year 1736, Gen. Wade having detected the iniquitous methods by which he enriched himself, and impofed upon, the government in the moft flagitious and oppreffive manner, His company, as he gave out, confifted of one hundred and twenty men, befides officers and pipers; but on enquiry it was found that he had pocketed the money, and only remitted a fmall part of the corn or carriage fervice to his tenants for appearing at the reviews; on obferving the backwardness with which his corps went through the feveral evolutions of the military exercise, with the uncouth and tawdry condition in which they appeared, he, in confequence of being LieutenantGeneral of the King's forces in Scotland, broke the

company