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BEP(F.747.004
30 Mar 1747:12 (507)
An extract from a journal of the late rebellion in
Scotland,. . . p. 47.
After the famous battle of Culloden, his Highness the Duke
ordered a court-martial to be held for those base
ungrateful fellows who deserted a various times, and joined
our enemies; whereupon thirty six were condemned to be
hanged in the camp at Inverness. Three of 'em were
commissioned officers among the rebels, and had been
serjeants in the King's Regiments of Foot. One of them went
to the place of execution in gold laced cloaths, and the
Duke's order was, that he shou'd hang in his fine
regimentals, with a guard of Kingston horse, to mount forty
eight hours by the gallows, and then he was cut down and
buried under it.
This serjeant's name was Dumbar, a man of good education,
born at Edinburgh, who deserted there to be Adjutant and
Lieutenant with the rebels. The cloaths he wore belonged to
Major Lockart, stript from him after the battle of Falkirk.
He was early one of Whitefield's disciples, and when he
walk'd to the gallows, being a mile from Inverness, he was
attended by near a dozen Methodists of his own former
regiment, with books in their hands, all the way signing
hymns. He refused to have a kirk minister with him, but
seemingly behaved with decency and courage; and tho' he
talked much of Jesus Christ, yet he died without
acknowledging his treason, and the justice of his
punishment.
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