A genuine and impartial account of the remarkable life and vicissitudes of fortune of Charles Ratcliffe, Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8. 1746. for High-Treason, in being in the Rebellion in the Year 1715. With a full Account of the Rebellion in England and Scotland at that Time. Also the Proceedings that were had against his Brother, the late Earl of Derwentwater; Together with both his Speeches; the first that he made at the Bar of the House of Lords, when he received Judgment of Death; and the other that he made on the Scaffold, just before his Execution on Tower-Hill, Feb. 14. 1715-6. And in the Course of the Work, is related both their Behaviours on the Mornings of their Executions, and their last Dying Words on the Scaffold. By Gerard Penrice.

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1747