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Title: [Memoranda on the Jacobite Rebellion].
Alternative Title: Edinburgh almanack for the year M,DCC,XLVII. Edinburgh: Printed for R. Fleming, 1747.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1747
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript notes on blank pages of printed almanac.
Scope/Content: Manuscript notes by an anonymous Scot regarding the aftermath of the Scottish Rebellion, including lists of those executed, detained and released, as well as lists of Scottish representative peers elected in 1747, and financial comparisons between the Jacobite Rebellion and Queen Anne's War, among other related topics. Other notes include exchange rates for foreign currencies and a long extracted passage titled "A remarkable instance of Turkish justice." These memoranda are written on the blank pages and the beginning and end of the printed text; the blank pages included alongside the almanac's calendars have not been used. There are also several corrections or additions to the printed text (for example, events that occured in November and December 1747 and the February fair in Moulin).
Condition: Bound in original vellum with wallet tuck; 1747 in ink on front cover.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books--Scotland--18th century.
Tax stamps (Printing)
Extent: [106] pages, bound; 12 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1vc89
AY761 .E22 1747 *
Language: English
Subject: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746.
Place: Scotland.
Provenance: 1747 written in ink on front cover; tax stamp on title page.
Location: CLUW

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