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  • He was a steady jacobite, his father and his four uncles having been out in the forty-five; but he was a no less steady adherent of King George, in whose service he had made his little fortune, and lost three brothers; so that you were in equal danger to displease him, in terming Prince Charles, the

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • With you modelling skills, I was thinking of a jacobite set-up along the lines of the picture in the League of Augsburg web site in the LOGW Napoleonic gallery.

    The Standard Has Been Raised Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • Arms of an evening, than was consistent with strict temperance, or indeed with his worldly interest; for upon these occasions, his compotators sometimes contrived to flatter his partialities by singing jacobite songs, and drinking confusion to Bonaparte, and the health of the Duke of

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • From the Jacobite Heritage website www.jacobite.ca/essays/lafosse.htm, citing comments from Otto von Habsburg to the genealogist David Willis.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • From the Jacobite Heritage website www.jacobite.ca/essays/lafosse.htm, citing comments from Otto von Habsburg to the genealogist David Willis.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • See also the Jacobite Heritage website www.jacobite.ca.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • See also the Jacobite Heritage website www.jacobite.ca.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • See also the Jacobite Heritage website www.jacobite.ca.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • From the Jacobite Heritage website www.jacobite.ca/essays/lafosse.htm, citing comments from Otto von Habsburg to the genealogist David Willis.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Others had heard Westburnflat boast, in drinking parties, that Ellieslaw would soon be in arms for the jacobite cause, and that he himself was to hold a command under him, and that they would be bad neighbours for young

    The Black Dwarf 1898

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