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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The interesting letter of Mr. J. C. Hodgson bearing upon the abOve subject may be supplemented by a memo-
randum of my grand-uncle (who died in 1884), written on March 8th, 1871 :-
" James, my grandfather, born in 1782, died in 1810. He told me he was 13 years old when the Pretender, with his troops, entered Jedburgh in 1745. All the men, who were opposed to the rising, left the town to avoid being compelled to join the rebels, but, as he was a boy, he, with the curiosity of his age, made his way down to Bongate, and walked alongside of the Prince and his troops, as they came up and entered the town by the Canongate Bridge, that being the only bridge over the Jed."
The bridge referred to is supposed to be of the same age
as the Abbey, and is one of those that are formed of ribbed arches. The 'Office- of Works has scheduled it and will now see that it is kept in proper repair. Prince Charlie, while in Jedburgh, lodged in a house in Castlegate.—I am, Kenmore Bank, Jedburgh.
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