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SCOTLAND – JACOBITE RISING OF 1745
Autograph letter signed by Captain Thomas Shadwell of Bath, to "Dear Webb", commenting on their unsettled times and men who may be able to serve, Bath, 8 September 1745

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SCOTLAND – JACOBITE RISING OF 1745

Autograph letter signed by Captain Thomas Shadwell of Bath, to "Dear Webb", commenting on their unsettled times and men who may be able to serve, ("...I considerd the present State of Affairs and the great Want of Men... As Publick Affairs look extreamly black, and this place a most remarkable dissaffected one and abounding with Roman Catholicks, and not look'd upon as very safe for Well Wishers to Our Present Royal Master I beg You will send all my Party viz Serj.t Minxee Corp.ll Gardner and my own Drum Webb, if at Quarters, if not, any You please, Hattwood and my two new men above namd, armd with Firelocks Bayonetts and Pouches and one or two spare ones for mine and Fathers Serv.ts all wch I will keep safe in my own House and be Answerable fr, But things look so ill that tis a very necessary piece of Caution to be upon ones Guard and prepard for what I hope wont happen..."); hoping that the cheeses he sent have arrived, and discussing like matters; contemporary docket noting free delivery, 3 pages, guard, minor dust-staining, 4to, Bath, 8 September 1745

Footnotes

ʻPUBLICK AFFAIRS LOOK EXTREAMLY BLACK' – panic seizes England as Bonnie Prince Charlie advances on Edinburgh. This letter was written after news had got through that Cope had failed to intercept the Prince's army at the Pass of Corrieyairack on 27–8 August, leaving the way to the south open: they were to enter Edinburgh on the seventeenth. The writer of the letter can be identified as son of the King's physician Sir John Shadwell (died 1747), and grandson of the poet and playwright, Thomas.

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