There he was joined by Camerons, Macdonalds, and Stewarts,
and thence he moved, with an ever-increasing Highland _tail_, to
Perth. A bold stream joined him here--northern nobles of power, with
their men. He might now have an army of two thousand. Sir John Cope,
sent to oppose him with what British troops there were in Scotland,
allowed himself to be circumvented. The Prince, having proclaimed his
father, still at Rome, James III, King of Great Britain, and produced
his own commission as Regent, marched from Perth to Edinburgh. The
city capitulated and Charles Edward was presently installed in
Holyrood, titularly at home in his father's kingdom, in his ancient
palace, among his loyal subjects, but actually with far the major
moiety of that kingdom yet to gain.
The gracious act of rewarding must begin. Claim on royal gratitude is
ever a multitudinous thing! In the general manifoldness, out of the
by no means yet huge store of honey Ian Rullock, for mere first rung
of his fortune's ladder, received the personally given thanks of his
Prince and a captaincy in the none too rapidly growing army.
CHAPTER XIX
The castle, defiant, untakable save by long siege and famine, held for
King George by a garrison of a few hundreds, spread itself like a rock
lion in a high-lifted rock lair. Bands of Highlanders watched its
gates and accesses, guarding against Hanoverian sallies.
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