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'If you want to know what I'm doing, he said, 'I'm writing out the team for the Windybury match, and I'm going to make Payne captain, as the senior Second Fifteen man. And if we win I'm jolly well going to give him his cap after the match. If we don't win, it'll be the fault of a raving lunatic of the name of Walkinshaw, with his beastly Colney Hatch schemes for reforming slack forwards.
While Charles retired in 1755 with Miss Walkinshaw to Basle, where he passed for an English physician in search of health, Pickle was not idle. He had sent in a sheet of notes in April 1754. 'Colonel Buck was lately in England, he brought Pickle a fine gold stuff-box from the Young Pretender, which Pickle showed me, that is, to the official who received his statement.
Before her decease she sent to the cardinal the whole of the crown jewels, and at her death she left him all her property, with the exception of an annuity to her mother, Miss Walkinshaw, who survived her for some time, and who was known in Jacobite circles as the Countess of Alberstroff. The conduct of the Princess Louisa, the reputed mother of the child, was equally strange.
On March 11 the Duke received Miss Walkinshaw's formal affidavit that no marriage existed. 'It has entirely relieved him from the uneasiness the villainous report naturally gave him. On January 5, 1768, Lumisden had to tell Miss Walkinshaw that 'His Royal Highness insists you shall always remain in a monastery. Lumisden was always courteous to Miss Walkinshaw.
The facts about this Miss Walkinshaw, daughter of John Walkinshaw of Barowfield, have long been obscure. We can now offer her own account of her adventures, from the archives of the French Foreign Office. The lady was then aged twenty: she was named after Charles's mother, and was a Catholic.
Grey, the captain of the St Austin's Fifteen, was in the infirmary nursing a bad knee. To him came Charles Augustus Walkinshaw with a scheme. Walkinshaw was football secretary, and in Grey's absence acted as captain. Besides these two there were only a couple of last year's team left Reade and Barrett, both of Philpott's House. 'Hullo, Grey, how's the knee? said Walkinshaw.
His passion must still greatly cool before any application can be made to him in your behalf. A report was circulated that Charles was secretly married to Miss Walkinshaw. On February 16, 1767, Lumisden wrote to Waters on 'the dismal consequences of such a rumour, and, by the Duke of York's desire, bade Waters obtain a denial from the lady.
We learn that the English insist on the dismissal of Miss Walkinshaw. To discard Dumont, as Charles proposed, was to provide England with an informer. The heads of English gentlemen would be at the mercy of the executioners of Archy Cameron. To turn adrift Charles's Catholic servants was impolitic, cruel, and deeply ungrateful.
Did Goring regard that plot as 'wicked, or did he object to escorting Miss Walkinshaw? There were clearly two difficulties. One concerned Miss Walkinshaw, the other, Lady Primrose. She, as a Jacobite conspirator, had been used to seeing 'the little man, a Frenchman, whom Charles threatens to dismiss. If dismissed, he would be dangerous.
'It's the best match I ever played in, said Walkinshaw, bubbling over with enthusiasm. 'Do you know, the Second had all the best of the game. 'What was the score? 'Draw. One try all. 'And now I suppose you're satisfied? enquired Barrett. The great scheme for the regeneration of Payne had been confided to him by its proud patentee. 'Almost, said Walkinshaw.
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