[mairead]

James bradshaw was a young English merchant from Manchester, England who joined the forces of Prince Charles Edward Stewart in 1745. He was a Captain in the newly formed Manchester regiment and march with the Jacobites to Derby and back. He fought at Culloden under Lord Elcho. He was captured and sentenced to be executed. As he stood on the scaffold on the morning hge was to die, he mad this statement.
"I declare that I joined the forces of King James Stewart as a matter of principle and duty only, and I have no god reason to believe that I as mistaken in doing so. On the contrary, everything I have seen and experienced has only served to strengthen my opinion that my actions were right and necessary. I had the misfortune to fall into the hands of a most ungenerous enemy that I could ever have believed had assumed the title of soldier. The pretended Duke of Cumberland and those under his command are beasts, whose inhumanity has exceeded anything I could have imagined, in a country where the name of God is spoken"
Bradshaw finished his statement with a prayer for King James, Charles Prince of Wales and Henri, Duke of York.
Thereafter this gallanyt young Englishman laid down his life.