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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 544

Great Britain
Jacobite Uprising
Printed Matter
1715-46 an illuminating, over-arching group (14) of newspapers, magazines and printed acts of parliament including: The Flying Post: or, The Postmaster, 1715 (7-9 June) with reference to an account from Brussels that "may put our rebellious Faction to the Blush, when they hear that Foreign Papists pay such Respect to our Protestant King, while our English High-Church Zealots expose the Reputation of what they call the Church, and make it a Scandal to the Protestant Name"; The London Gazette (2) 1745 (Aug., Nov.), the first "Ordering a Reward of Thirty Thousand Pounds to any Person who shall seize and secure the eldest Son of the Pretender, in case he shall land, or attempt to land, in any of His Majesty's Dominions", the second "the Son of the Pretender has now dared, in Defiance of the Laws, to invade your Realms, and to raise a Rebellion against your Majesty"; The Gentleman's Magazine (4) 1745 (Nov., Dec.), 1746 (Aug., Oct.) each with extensive reference to Jacobite events e.g. 1715 Rebellion, Young Pretender's Declaration, Young Pretender's letter to mayor of Carlisle, description of the execution of the Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino, an account of the Young Pretender's escape after Culloden; The Edinburgh Evening Courant (4) 1746 (July 1, 8, 17, Aug. 7), one with reference to the prohibition of the "Highland Dress"; printed Acts of Parliament (3) (1727, 1741 duplicated)

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