A compleat and authentick history of the rise, progress, and extinction of the late rebellion, and of the proceedings against the principal persons concerned therein. Containing A clear and impartial Narrative of the Intrigues of the Pretender's Adherents before the Breaking out of their Design in North-Britain; their Proceedings after their taking Arms; their Actions in that Part of the Island before they marched Southwards; their March to Derby, and true Reasons of their Retreat; the Dispute at Falkirk, and Motives of their transferring the War into the Highlands; with the principal Causes of their Defeat at Culloden. Intersporsed with the Characters of their Chic-Leaders, and a curious Detail of their Negotiations abroad. The whole composed with the greatest Accuracy possible in regard in Fact and Dates, and free from all Mixture of fictitious Circumstances, or ill-grounded Conjectures. Adorned and illustrated with exact plans of the battles of Falkirk and Culloden, and the Heads of the Young Adventurer, the Earls of Cromarty and Kilmarnock, Lords Balmerino and Lovat, and Mr. Radcliffe, with an exact Representation of the Beheading of Lord Lovat, all neatly engraved on Copper.

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MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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Dublin : printed for E. and J. Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-Hill, MDCCXLVII. [1747]

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68p.,plates : ports. ; 80.

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ESTC T78606

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