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Brotherton Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4

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jacobites6
english poetry4
commonplace-books2
letters1
jacobites in literature1
commonplace books1

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King James II (1633-1701)1
Berwick, James Fitz-James (1670-1734)1
King Charles I (1600-1649)1

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Jacobite and other documents

1642-c.1776

The following Jacobite and other documents of the 17th and 18th centuries were most generously deposited in the Brotherton Library by the Earl Bathurst in September 1984. They were previously on tempo...

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Letter, 12 July 1713, from James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick

Berwick, James Fitz-James (1670-1734)

1713

The letter is to an unnamed recipient, referring to a letter from the king of England (in fact James Francis Edward Stuart, the 'Old Pretender'), and commenting on the intrigues of Mme de Hatcher.

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BC MS Lt 106, f. 1r: The opening of
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Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.

c.1745-1780

Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...

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BC MS Lt 46, f. 1r:
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Collection of English poems, predominantly Jacobite, in several hands

c.1720-1730

Collection of poems, songs and ballads, composed ca.1706-1723, expressing loyalty to the Stuarts and assailing the House of Hanover

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BC MS Lt q 6, f.1v:
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Jacobite manuscript

c.1714-1715

Satirical Jacobite verse attack on George I, titled "Nero the 2nd", ca.1715, in a bifolium also containing two Jacobite prose manifestos of "James III", the first dated 29 August 1714, the second date...

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BC MS Lt 7, f. 30r:
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Commonplace book of Jacobite and other verse

c.1736-1747

Poetical commonplace book, including much anti-Hanoverian and Roman Catholic writing. Six additional loose fragments: following f.11v: notes and calculations, "London Parishes", etc.; facing f.19v: "M...

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