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jacobite rebellion, 17156
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Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1665-17451
Nithsdale, William Maxwell Earl of (1676-1744)1
Nairne, William Nairne Baron (1724)1
Stanhope, James First Earl of Stanhope1
Townshend, Charles1
Widdrington, William Widdrington Baron (1678-1743)1
Ward, Edward (1667-1731)1
Kenmure, William Gordon Viscount (1716)1
George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-17271
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-17141

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Correspondence concerning the Jacobite Rebellion 1715 : despatches from Viscount Townshend and Earl Stanhope to the Duke of Argyll.

Townshend, Charles

1715-1716

Comprises 35 letters, apparently the only surviving original official record of the despatches from Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend and Mr Secretary Stanhope (afterwards James, 1st Earl Stanhope) to t...

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The whole proceeding to judgment upon the articles of impeachment of high treason : exhibited by the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled... against James Earl of Derwentwater, William Lord Widdrington, William Earl of Nithisdale, Robert Earl of Carnwath, William Viscount Kenmure, and William Lord Nairn, in Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the ninth day of February, 1715

Derwentwater, James Radcliffe Earl of (1689-1716); Widdrington, William Widdrington Baron (1678-1743); Nithsdale, William Maxwell Earl of (1676-1744); Carnwath, Robert Dalyell Earl of (1737); Kenmure, William Gordon Viscount (1716); Nairne, William Nairne Baron (1724)

1716

Signatures: [A]-F².

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British wonders : or, A poetical description of the several prodigies and most remarkable accidents that have happen'd in Britain since the death of Queen Anne

Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

1717

Deals satirically with Hanoverian succession, Jacobite rebellions, etc.

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A seasonable expostulation with, and friendly reproof unto, James Butler, who by the men of this world, is stil'd Duke of O-------d, relating to the tumults of the people

Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)

1715

The author of 'A friendly epistle from one of the people called Quakers, to Thomas Bradbury' = Daniel Defoe. Indexed in: ESTC, N21495

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An appeal to all subjects, touching the measures of punishing state-criminals : With all the objections answer'd; and a remedy to popular errors. By a divine of the Church of England

1706

With a final page of advertisements. Anonymous: a pamphlet arguing for just punishment for supporters of the Old Pretender. On t.p.: 1706; but work refers to events of 1715.

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