Reasons against the succession of the house of hanover How far the abdication of king james, supposing it to be legal, ought to affect the person of the pretender.
Jacobitism was a political movement that polarized the United Kingdom in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Its supporters were in favor of re-installing King James II and his heirs to the throne. In this lengthy satirical essay, Robinson Crusoe author Daniel Defoe excoriates the movement and its followers.
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