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Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)8
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Charles Edward Stuart, Prince, 1720-17884
Blackwood, William4
Blackwood, William (1776-1834)4
Wharton, Philip Wharton, Duke of, 1698-17311
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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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Philip, Duke of Wharton, 1698-1731

Robinson, John Robert (1850-1910)

1896

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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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The Jacobite conventicle. A poem

Ames, Richard (1693)

1692

Attributed to Richard Ames.

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Redgauntlet : A tale of the eighteenth century (v.1)

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

1824

With advertisements on final 4 p. of v. 3. By Sir Walter Scott. Printer statement on t.p. verso: "Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.,..." With half-titles.

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Redgauntlet : A tale of the eighteenth century (v.2)

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

1824

With advertisements on final 4 p. of v. 3. By Sir Walter Scott. Printer statement on t.p. verso: "Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.,..." With half-titles.

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Redgauntlet : A tale of the eighteenth century (v.3)

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

1824

With advertisements on final 4 p. of v. 3. By Sir Walter Scott. Printer statement on t.p. verso: "Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.,..." With half-titles.

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Jacobite songs and ballads (selected)

Macquoid, Gilbert Samuel (1854-1940)

1887

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Some account of the Roman history of Fabius Pictor; from a manuscript lately discover'd in Herculaneum; the underground city near Naples: in a letter from an English gentleman residing at Naples; to his friend at London

Fabius Pictor, Quintus

1749

The ostensible author of the MS., the historian Q. Fabius Pictor, is cited on p.6 as Caius Fabius Pictor. An anti-Jacobite prose satire. The alleged MS. refers to the conspiracy to restore the exile...

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