I come from Lancashire, just on the borders of Westmoreland.

My father is a Jacobite, and so had to leave the country.

He went over to Sweden, and I, with some friends of his, got commissions." "Then our cases are pretty much alike," the doctor said.

"I had gone through Dublin University, and had just passed as a surgeon, when King James landed.

It didn't much matter to me who was king, but I thought it was a fine opportunity to study gunshot wounds, so I joined the royal army, and was at the battle of the Boyne.