personal violence. Meanwhile the Prince absolutely forbade even a
legitimate armed attack directed mainly against his enemy, then red-
handed from the murder of the wounded.

With this loyalty to his foes, with this clemency to enemies in his
power, Charles certainly combined a royal grace, and could do
handsome things handsomely. Thus, in 1745, some of the tenants of
Oliphant of Gask would not don the white cockade at his command. He
therefore 'laid an arrest or inhibition on their corn-fields.'
Charles, finding the grain hanging dead-ripe, as he marched through
Perthshire, inquired the cause, and when he had learned it, broke the
'taboo' by cutting some ears with his sword, or by gathering them and
giving them to his horse, saving that the farmers might now, by his
authority, follow his example and break the inhibition. {24a}

Making every allowance for an enthusiasm of loyalty on the part of
the narrators in Bishop Forbes's MS. 'Lyon in Mourning' (partly
published by Robert Chambers in 'Jacobite Memoirs' {24b}), it is
certain that the courage, endurance, and gay content of the Prince in
his Highland wanderings deserve the high praise given by Smollett.
Thus, in many ways we see the elements of a distinguished and
attractive character in Charles. His enemies, like the renegade Dr.
King, of St. Mary's Hall (ob. 1763), in his posthumous 'Anecdotes,'
accused the Prince of avarice. He would borrow money from a lady,
says King, while he had plenty of his own; he neglected those who had
ruined themselves for his sake. Henry Goring accused the Prince of
shabbiness to his face, but assuredly he who insisted on laying down
money on the rocks of a deserted fishers' islet to pay for some dry
fish eaten there by himself and his companions--he who gave liberally
to gentle and simple out of the treasure buried near Loch Arkaig, who