A genuine and impartial account of the remarkable life and vicissitudes of fortune of Charles Ratcliffe, Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8. 1746. for High-Treason, in being in the Rebellion in the Year 1715. With a full Account of the Rebellion in England and Scotland at that Time. Also the Proceedings that were had against his Brother, the late Earl of Derwentwater; Together with both his Speeches; the first that he made at the Bar of the House of Lords, when he received Judgment of Death; and the other that he made on the Scaffold, just before his Execution on Tower-Hill, Feb. 14. 1715-6. And in the Course of the Work, is related both their Behaviours on the Mornings of their Executions, and their last Dying Words on the Scaffold. By Gerard Penrice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penrice, Gerard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jacobite Rebellion, 1715.

Radcliffe, Charles, 1693-1746.

Radcliffe, Charles.

Ratcliffe, Charles, 1693-1746.

Ratcliffe, Charles.

Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, Earl of, 1689-1716.

Derwentwater, James Radcliffe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],182p. )

Other Title:

Genuine and impartial account of the remarkable life and vicissitudes of fortune of Charles Ratcliffe,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and may be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country, 1747.

Notes:

An expanded version of the text earlier issued anonymously under various titles.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T63239.

OCLC:

642650589