James, Prince of Wales (1688-1766) - 1715 Jacobite Rebellion
£700
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Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
By the King, a Proclamation requiring all His Majesty's Subjects to Repair to his Camp... 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
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: A rare royal proclamation, 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 Mininsters from the Pulpits immediately after Divine Service.." Rare. ESTC: 3 copies in the U.K., one in the U.S.A.