hold the bason and ewer to the king, by virtue of one moiety, and the towel by virtue of another moiety of the said manor, when the king washes before dinner.-Allowed, as to the towel only.

39. The duke of Norfolk, as earl of Arundel, and lord of Kenninghall manor, Norfolk, claimed to perform by deputy the office of chief butler of England, and to have for his fees the best gold cup and cover, with all the vessels and wine remaining under the bar, and all the pots and cups, except those of gold or silver, in the wine-cellar after din ner. Allowed, with only the fee of the cup and ewer. 1761, July?

VIII. Origin of the Hugonots.

HUGO Aubrict, who by merit had gained the esteem of Charles V. of France, was invested with the dignity of provost of Paris when Charles VI. mounted the throne. He shewed himself worthy of that important post by the care which he took for the maintenance of good order, for the embellishment of the city, and for the convenience of its inhabitants. He bad contributed to the wholesomeness of the air, and to the neatness of the streets, by means of subterraneous channels, of which he was the inventor. He had built many bridges, in order to facilitate the communication between various quarters of the city, and he employed on these different works the beggar, the idle, in a word, those unhappy wretches whom indigence and want of work ren dered enemies to the state. Every thing manifested his distinguished zeal for the public good; but he had offended the university, and that ruined him; the students, most of them men grown, proud of their numbers, and of their pri vileges, frequently abandoned themselves to scandalous excesses. The provost, attentive to the public tranquillity, treated them with all the rigor that their repeated enormities deserved; he had ordered his serjeants to seize them wherever they committed disorders, and to confine them in the dungeons of the little Chatelet, which he had caused to be dug on purpose for them. The members of the university spared no pains to take the most cruel revenge on him; they made private inquiries into the morals of this rigid provost, and when they thought their proofs sufficient, they cited him before the ecclesiastical tribunal, At first, de

pending on the protection of the court, he despised their prosecution; but the credit of his adversaries prevailed over the favor of princes; he was arrested, and carried to the prison of the spiritual court, and on the evidence of some witnesses, (such as they were) condemned as a bad catholic, intemperate, debauched, as an encourager of women of dissolute lives, particularly of Jewesses, in short, as a Jew and a Heretic. He would have been burnt alive, if the court had not mitigated his sentence. He was obliged to mount a scaffold, and there bare-headed, and without a girdle, he was forced on his knees to ask pardon, in the presence of a crowd of people. The rector, at the head of the university, assisted at this melancholy spectacle, and the bishop of Paris, dressed in his pontifical robes, publicly preached to the accused, and concluded with condemning him to end his days in a dungeon, with bread and water only for his support. Hugo Aubrict was released the year after, by the same populace, who had joyfully assisted at his punishment.-It is from this provost of Paris that the Protestants have been called Hugonots, an injurious appellation used in France to signify the enemies of the church. 1764, June.

IX. A particular and authentic account of the Escape of CHARLES EDWARD STUART, commonly called the Young Chevalier, after the Battle of Culloden.

THE battle of Culloden was fought on the 16th of April, 1746; and the young chevalier having his horse shot through the neck with a musket ball, and seeing the rout among his troops universal and irretrievable, was persuaded to provide for his own safety as well as he could. He was soon mounted on a fresh horse, and, accompanied by a few chosen friends, he retreated by Tordurock, a village about nine miles from Inverness, to Aberardar, about three miles farther in Mackintosh's country; thence to Faroline, five

*Sir Thomas Sheridan; his two aid-de-camps, sir David Murray, and Mr. Alexander Macleod; captain O'Sullivan, and captain O'Neille, two Irish gentlemen, who had the French king's commission; Mr. John Hay, one of his secretaries; with these were Edward Bourk, a servant of Macleod; a servant of Mr. Hay, and one Allan Macdonald.

miles farther in Lovat's country; and thence to Gortulaig, one mile farther, a house of Mr. Fraser, steward to lord LoAt this place he found lord Lovat himself, who exhorted him most pathetically to keep up his courage, and remember his ancestor Robert de Bruce, who, after losing eleven battles, by winning the twelfth, recovered the kingdom. On the other hand, O'Sullivan, and O'Neille, took him aside, and begged him to listen to no such insinuations. This was certainly the best advice, and he followed it; for, about ten at night, he set forward, and reached Invergary about five o'clock the next morning. Invergary was a castle belonging to Macdonald of Glengary, which was not then burnt, nor was its owner, who afterwards suffered long confinement in Edinburgh Castle, yet taken prisoner; but, the family being absent, it could afford no entertainment. Bourk, however, was fortunate enough to catch a brace of salmon early in the forenoon, which furnished the little company with a meal. After their repast, a consultation was held, and it was thought proper that the adventurer should proceed with only O'Sullivan, Allan Macdonald, and Bourk, for a guide; it was farther thought necessary that he should change clothes with Bourk, which was accordingly done; and setting out about two o'clock they reached Donald Gameron's, at Glenpean, about nine at night. Being exhausted with fatigue, and not having closed his eyes for more than eight and forty hours, he threw himself upon a bed in his clothes, and fell asleep; he awaked early in the morning greatly refreshed, and continued his course on foot, through places that perhaps had never before been trodden, and over mountains which would have been inaccessible to all who were not in equal danger, and at length arrived at the Glen of Morar. After a short respite, he proceeded to Boredale in Arisaig, a country of Clanranald's, where he rested several days, giving and getting intelligence. At this place he was again joined by captain O'Neille, who acquainted him, that there was not the least hope of re-assembling his men, and that he had nothing left but to get out of the country. With this view, he determined to move towards the western isles, hoping there to find a ship to carry him abroad, more easily than on the continent.

At a place called Gualtergil, in the isle of Sky, there lived an old man, one Donald Macleod, who was a good pilot, and thought to be trusty; this man therefore was sent for, and the adventurer committing himself to him, he engaged to conduct him through the isles to a place of safety.

Accordingly, an eight-oared barge was procured, and on the 26th of April, in the dusk of the evening, the chief, with O'Neille, O'Sullivan, Allan Macdonald, Bourk, who offi ciated as boatman, and the old pilot, embarked at Lochnannaught, in Boredale, the very place where he first landed in Scotland.

By the time they had put off from shore it was become quite dark; and in a short time they were overtaken by a violent storm of wind and rain: their boat had no covering, and they had neither light nor compass on board, so that they drove all night they knew not whither, the sea every mo ment breaking over them, and the boat being in equal dan ger of sinking and oversetting; it happened, however, that when the day broke, the storm subsided, and they discovered, with great joy, a promontory, called Rossinish, in the east part of Benbicula, a small island belonging to Clanranald, and lying between north and South Vist. Here they soon landed in safety, and with all possible expedition made a fire, the little crew being half perished with cold.

In the mean time, the duke of Cumberland supposing, either from conjecture or intelligence, that the fugitive had repaired to the western isles, sent general Campbell in pursuit of him, who went immediately to St. Kilda, where he might probably have found him, if it had not been for the storm; so that what appeared to be their danger was their security. The general soon found that there was nobody at St. Kilda but the inhabitants, who had no other commerce with the world than the payment of their rent once a year in Solan goose feathers, and who did not know that such a being as Campbell sought existed in the world.

While this was doing, the adventurer lay weather-bound at Benbicula; but, after two days and two nights, he and bis attendants set sail again, on the 29th, for Stornway, the chief port of Lewis, which is the northernmost of the western isles: it lies about fourteen leagues north of Benbicula, and belongs to Seafort. Soon after they put to sea, they were overtaken by another storm, which forced them, the next morning, into Scalpay, or Glass, an island belonging to the laird of Macleod, and passing for shipwrecked merchants, were hospitably entertained by Donald Campbell, the farmer of the island.

On the first of May, a boat was procured, and Macleod, the old pilot, dispatched to Stornway, to freight a vessel for the Orkneys: in two days he sent notice that the vessel was ready, and the chief immediately put to sea, and on the fourth landed at Loch Sheffort; from whence, with

O'Sullivan, O'Neille, and Bourk the guide, Allan Macdo nald taking his leave for South Vist, they proceeded on foot for Stornway, Having travelled, or rather wandered through the hills all night, they arrived, on the fifth at noon, wet and weary, at the point of Arinish, about half a mile S. E. of Stornway. Here Macleod, their pilot, was sent for from Stornway, who brought them some refreshments, and then conducted them to lady Kildun's, a Mackenzie, at Arinish, to wait till all should be ready for an embarkation. But the next morning, upon Macleod's return to Stornway, he found, to his inexpressible confusion and surprize, all the people up in arms, and an embargo laid upon all shipping.

His servant, it seems, had got drunk in his absence, and discovered for whom the ship had been hired. The whole project being therefore totally ruined, the unhappy fugitive went hastily from lady Kildun's, without knowing what course to take: it was at first proposed to sail for the Orkneys, in the boat they had; but this the crew, now reduced to two, did not dare to attempt, and it was then resolved that they should steer southward, along the coast, in hopes of succeeding better elsewhere.

They were, however, soon driven upon a desert island, called Evirn, or Iffurt; it lies about twelve miles from Stornway, and is not more than half a mile over each way. They found, however, some fishermen upon it, who, taking the wanderers for a press-gang, ran away, and took to their boat with great precipitation, leaving all their fish behind them. Finding, by this means, a good dinner where they least expected it, the chief proposed to leave money in its place; but being told, that this piece of honesty might raise a dangerous suspicion, he was persuaded to take his meal at free cost.

In this island, the weather being very tempestuous, they subsisted some days upon some fish which they found curing, and some shell fish which at low water they picked up on the beach. This was bad board, but they had worse lodging; for, upon the whole island, there was no trace of human dwelling, except one wretched hovel, of which the walls only were standing; within these walls, therefore, they lay down at night upon the bare ground, and spread a sail over them by way of canopy.

In the morning of the tenth, the weather being more favourable, they embarked for the Harries, and touched at the hospitable farmer's at Scalpay, when they offered money in vain for a better boat.

As no time was to be lost, they put to sea again in their