The Secret History of Colonel Hooke's Negotiations in Scotland, in Favour of the Pretender: In 1707 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Pu'nilhments have terrified, or lenity hath o'vero come the difaffeéted whether the caufe of the Pretender has been abandoned as a pernicious one with regard to the public, or' been given Up as a de/perate one, with 'regard to its adhe rents in a word, whether mercenary views of private interefi, or laudable motives of con'viétion have opened men's eyes whatever, I fay, be the caufe (perhaps all the above-mentioned have operated) the faét is certain, that we have lived to fee this much wifhed for event, the extinction of a party which watched to over turn the conf'titution, and abfurdly preferred the fupport of hereditary right, to the fafety of.

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