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PRESTON FIGHT
or
THE INSURRECTION OF 1715

By William Harrison Ainsworth

Author of “The Tower of London”


My Lord Denventwater he did swear,

If that Proud Preston he came near,

Ere the Right should starve, and the Wrong shall stand,

He would drive them into some foreign land.

Old Lancashire Ballad.


London
George Routledge And Sons






WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH, ESQ, Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Etc., Etc.

The details of Preston Fight, given in the tale, which I have the gratification of inscribing to your name, may be new to you; inasmuch as you may not have seen DOCTOR Hibbert Ware's very curious historical collections relative to the great Jacobite movement of 1715, published several years ago by the Chetham Society, from which my materials have been derived.

But I am sure you will share my feelings of sympathy with the many gallant Roman Catholic gentlemen, who, from mistaken feelings of loyalty, threw away life and fortune at Preston; and you cannot fail to be struck with admiration at the masterly defence of the town made by Brigadier Mackintosh—the real hero of Preston Fight.

I hope I may have succeeded in giving you some idea of that valorous Highland commander.

Nothing can be better than the description of him given in the old Lancashire ballad:


“Mackintosh is a soldier brave,

And of his friends he took his leave;

Unto Northumberland he drew,

And marched along with a jovial crew.”


What a contrast to the brave brigadier is General Forster, by whose incompetency, or treachery, Preston was lost!—as the same old ballad says:


“'Thou Forster hast brought us from our own home,

Leaving our estates for others to come;

Thou treacherous dog, thou hast us betrayed,'

My Lord Derwentwater thus fiercely said.”


But the hero of my tale is the ill-fated Earl of Derwentwater—by far the most striking figure in the Northumbrian insurrection.

The portrait I have given of him I believe to be in the main correct,

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