Author: Karl Sabbagh
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0992627087
Category : Scandals
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The truth about what happened to the beautiful Lady Jane Douglas in Paris in 1748 has never been established. Did she give birth to twin boys in a bug-infested boarding house, or did she buy her two sons from poor French peasants to ensure that the distinguished line of Douglas survived in Scotland? The exploration of this 18th century mystery took place in public over twenty years, culminating in a dramatic session in the House of Lords. Combining, as it did, issues of sex, power, money, politics, and aristocracy, 'the Douglas Cause' was a fertile source of gossip and tittle-tattle. Karl Sabbagh gets as near as anyone ever will to the truth, in a definitive account of a case which divided the chattering classes at every level from the burgers of Edinburgh to the English Royal Family.
Trials of Lady Jane Douglas
Author: Karl Sabbagh
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0992627087
Category : Scandals
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The truth about what happened to the beautiful Lady Jane Douglas in Paris in 1748 has never been established. Did she give birth to twin boys in a bug-infested boarding house, or did she buy her two sons from poor French peasants to ensure that the distinguished line of Douglas survived in Scotland? The exploration of this 18th century mystery took place in public over twenty years, culminating in a dramatic session in the House of Lords. Combining, as it did, issues of sex, power, money, politics, and aristocracy, 'the Douglas Cause' was a fertile source of gossip and tittle-tattle. Karl Sabbagh gets as near as anyone ever will to the truth, in a definitive account of a case which divided the chattering classes at every level from the burgers of Edinburgh to the English Royal Family.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0992627087
Category : Scandals
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The truth about what happened to the beautiful Lady Jane Douglas in Paris in 1748 has never been established. Did she give birth to twin boys in a bug-infested boarding house, or did she buy her two sons from poor French peasants to ensure that the distinguished line of Douglas survived in Scotland? The exploration of this 18th century mystery took place in public over twenty years, culminating in a dramatic session in the House of Lords. Combining, as it did, issues of sex, power, money, politics, and aristocracy, 'the Douglas Cause' was a fertile source of gossip and tittle-tattle. Karl Sabbagh gets as near as anyone ever will to the truth, in a definitive account of a case which divided the chattering classes at every level from the burgers of Edinburgh to the English Royal Family.
Trial of Mary Blandy
Author: William Roughead
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Resisting Independence
Author: Brad A. Jones
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501754025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In Resisting Independence, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities—New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland—Jones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies. Jones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting task—to refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation's claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the beliefs and ideals that framed their loyalty to the Crown and previously drew together Britain's vast Atlantic empire. Resisting Independence describes the formation and spread of this new transatlantic ideology of Loyalism. Loyal subjects in North America and across the Atlantic viewed the American Revolution as a dangerous and violent social rebellion and emerged from twenty years of conflict more devoted to a balanced, representative British monarchy and, crucially, more determined to defend their rights as British subjects. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, as their former countrymen struggled to build a new nation, these loyal Britons remained convinced of the strength and resilience of their nation and empire and their place within it.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501754025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In Resisting Independence, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities—New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland—Jones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies. Jones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting task—to refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation's claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the beliefs and ideals that framed their loyalty to the Crown and previously drew together Britain's vast Atlantic empire. Resisting Independence describes the formation and spread of this new transatlantic ideology of Loyalism. Loyal subjects in North America and across the Atlantic viewed the American Revolution as a dangerous and violent social rebellion and emerged from twenty years of conflict more devoted to a balanced, representative British monarchy and, crucially, more determined to defend their rights as British subjects. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, as their former countrymen struggled to build a new nation, these loyal Britons remained convinced of the strength and resilience of their nation and empire and their place within it.
The Lord Advocates of Scotland
Author: George William Thomson Omond
Publisher:
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Chambers's Journal
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Day versus Day. Question as to legitimacy. A trial by ejectment between John Day, of Bedford ... and Thomas Day, of Spaldwick ... for the recovery of an estate in the County of Huntingdon, tried at the Assized held there on Monday, July 31, 1797 before the Hon. Mr. Justice Heath ... Taken in shorthand by Mr. Blanchard
Author: John Day (of Bedford.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author:
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence
Author:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Day Versus Day
Author: John Day
Publisher:
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Category : Ejectment
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"If the defendant ... be the son of Thomas the eldest brother, the plaintiff, being the son of John the younger brother ... has no title: but if he be a stranger to his blood, and has been imposed upon the family ... the plaintiff is then entitled to your verdict"--P. 43-44.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ejectment
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"If the defendant ... be the son of Thomas the eldest brother, the plaintiff, being the son of John the younger brother ... has no title: but if he be a stranger to his blood, and has been imposed upon the family ... the plaintiff is then entitled to your verdict"--P. 43-44.
A General Index ... from the Commencement of the New Series, in January, 1790, to the End of the Eighty-first Volume Completed in December 1816 ...
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description