CHAPTER VI.

Correspondence with the Duchess of Portland--Donnington Castle--Tunbridge Wells--Dr. Young and Colley Cibber--Buxton--Tonbridge Castle--The 1745 rising in Scotland--George Lewis Scott--National terrors--Wade’s army--County meeting at York--The Northern gentry--General Cope’s defeat at Preston Pans--Sussex privateers--Tunbridge ware--Walnut medicine--D. Stanley’s letter to Duke of Montagu--Cattle murrain--Fears of invasion--The Law regiment--Romney Marsh--A footman--A brave gamekeeper 198–226