Lot 5
1715 Jacobite Rebellion - Broadside
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
The speeches of the six condemn'd Lords, at their tryals in Westminster-Hall: as also, the last speech of James, Earl of Derwentwater, who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, February 24. 1715-16. Broadside, three woodcuts at head, 39 x 30cm
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: The woodcuts were clearly not cut for the broadside they illustrate, being at least 50 and possibly as much as 100 years older than the 1716 executions. Of the six lords condemned, three (Widdrington, Carwath and Nairn) were reprieved, Nithsdale escaped from the Tower on February 23rd 1716. Kenmure, who had raised the Royal Standard in October 1715, thus commencing the Rising, and Derwentwater were the only lords actually to be executed. Rare. Only one copy known: Bodleian, Oxford. [ESTC T150133]