Lot 360
JACOBITE RISING OF 1745
RARE BROADSIDE PROCLAMATION, HOLYROOD HOUSE, 9 OCTOBER 1745
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 17 August 2022 at 11:00 BST
Description
Single half-sheet, woodcut headpiece and initial, text commence 'Charles Prince of Wales, etc. Regent of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, and Dominions thereunto belonging. Charles P. R. Whereas we are certainly informed. That the Elector of Hanover has taken upon him to summon a Parliament to meet at Westminster of Thursday the Seventeenth of this instant October; We hereby warn and command all His Majesty's Liege Subjects ... to pay no Obedience to any such Summons ...', mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 302 x 194 mm, creases and tape repairs [ESTC T30512]
Provenance
Previously at Letterfourie, Morayshire
Footnote
Note:
Rare and important broadside issued by Prince Charles Edwart Stuart while holding court at Holyrood and building up his forces for the march on London. It announces the end to any amnesty previously offered to Hanoverian loyalists and declaring that any individuals accepting the summons of George II to attend a meeting of parliament on 17 October 'shall be proceeded against as traitors and rebels to their King and Country'. ESTC traces seven copies only in libraries world-wide.