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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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THE YOUNG PRETENDER. LADIEs AND GENTLEMEN, THE practical and levelling progress of our age has been so rapid, and the social and political order of our country has been established on such solid foundations, that some comparatively recent pages of our history read almost like fiction. In the middle of the last century an episode occurred which convulsed Scotland, and threatened the se- curity of England, an episode of mingled heroism and folly, of romantic glamour at its outset and cruel deception at its close, and which for these striking contrasts, as well as for the moral the tale conveys, I will endeavour to delineate. We are told that the sins of parents are visited on their children, and no more forcible illustration of this warning was ever afforded than by the annals of the Royal House of Stuart. We should be retracing our steps too far were we to follow the varied fortunes of the sovereigns of B
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