London in the Jacobite times, Volume I

Chapter 40: Transcriber’s Note:

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The narrative surveys London society and politics during the Jacobite era, tracing public responses to a disputed succession, ceremonial proclamations, and partisan rivalry. It gathers contemporaneous anecdotes, sermons, pamphlets, stage incidents, and official proceedings to illustrate street demonstrations, political clubs, libel and satire, military and legal manoeuvres, arrests and trials, and prison life. Chapters move chronologically through outbreaks of rioting, plot investigations, and popular entertainments, showing how church, court, and newspapers shaped opinion. The result is a portrait of an urban capital simmering with factional tension, ritual spectacle, and everyday reactions to national crisis.

Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged.

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which the corresponding anchor occurs. Page headers were converted to sidenotes.

Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected.

The following items were changed:

usual for a Jabobite [Jacobite],
the Whig ‘Eveninig [Evening] Post,’
who appeared at Dumblane [Dunblane]
urged that the [she] would be subject