O he’s a ranting, roving lad,
He is a brisk an’ a bonny lad,
Betide what may, I will be wed,
And follow the boy wi’ the White Cockade.
(The White Cockade, Robert Burns)
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In 1745, Joseph D’Acre of Kirklinton Hall in Cumbria, was one of His Majesty’s troops defending Carlisle Castle from the approaching Jacobite army. He had left his wife, Catherine and young children in the care of his father-in-law, Sir George Fleming, Bishop of Carlisle, and they were at Fleming’s Cumbrian estate, Rose Castle: Mrs D’Acre was in the late stages of pregnancy and about to be confined.
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, wearing a white cockade; William Mosman; National Galleries of Scotland.
Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward Stuart, also known as the Young Pretender, had raised his standard at Glenfinnan in the Highlands on the 19th August 1745 and many of the…
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