Deal with your neighbours, but mistrust strangers, from whomsoever they may say they come." Which advice Charlie, at that time thirteen years old, gravely promised to follow.

He had naturally inherited his father's sentiments, and believed the Jacobite cause to be a sacred one.

He had fought and vanquished Alured Dormay, his second cousin, and two years his senior, for speaking of King James' son as the Pretender, and was ready, at any time, to do battle with any boy of his own age, in the same cause.

Alured's father, John Dormay, had ridden over to Lynnwood, to complain of the violence of which his son had been the victim, but he obtained no redress from Sir Marmaduke.
"The boy is a chip of the old block, cousin, and he did right.

I myself struck a blow at the king's enemies, when I was but eight years old, and got my skull well-nigh cracked for my pains.