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The Tory Party, Jacobitism and the 'Forty-Five: A Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ian R. Christie
Ian R. Christie
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University College, London
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The Historical Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , December 1987 , pp. 921 - 931
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52 Ibid. I, 272; II, 246.

53 Ibid. II, 101.

54 Ibid. II, 447.

55 Ibid. II, 99.

56 Ibid. I, 540, 545, 550–1; II, 272.

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