Lot 124
Jacobite Rising of 1715 - James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), 'The Old Pretender'
By the King, a Proclamation requiring all His Majesty's Subjects to Repair to His Camp
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
... given at our Court at Scoon, this Tenth Day of January, 1716, and in the Fifteenth Year of our Reign, By His Majesty's Command, Mar. Perth: Printed by Mr Robert Freebairn, 1716. Broadside, 41 x 32cm, woodcut initial letter, very wide margins [ESTC T90504]
Footnote
A rare royal proclamation printed on behalf of James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), 'The Old Pretender,' after the battle of Sheriffmuir, requiring all noblemen ‘and all other subjects fit to bear arms, furthwith to repair to Our Camp at Perth, or where it shall happen to be for the time, with their best Horses, Arms and Accoutrements’ and that the proclamation be ‘pass to the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-burghs of the several shires ... and all other places ... and that printed copies be sent to the Sheriffs.. and to send Doubles therof of the several Paroch-Churches and Meeting Houses ... that the same may be Published and Read by the Ministers from the Pulpits immediately after Divine Service.’ Rare, ESTC records 4 copies, BL (2 copies), NLS, Huntington Library and Art Gallery.