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    By James Foster
    London   J. Noon; A. Millar
    8" by 5" [4], 3-51 [3]pp
    The first edition of this very scarce contemporary account of the final days of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, who was arrested and executed following the Jacobite Rising.
    By James Foster

    1746 An Account of the Behaviour of the Late Earl of Kilmarnock, After his Sentence, and on the Day of his Execution

    London   J. Noon; A. Millar
    8" by 5" [4], 3-51 [3]pp
    The first edition of this very scarce contemporary account of the final days of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, who was arrested and executed following the Jacobite Rising.
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    Description

    First Edition, Very Scarce

    ESTC Citation No. T144578. With the third line of imprint ending 'opposite', as called for.

    Retaining the original half title, and with two final advertisement leaves, with the verso of the final leaf blank.

    William Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock, was captured at Culloden following the Jacobite Uprising of 1745, in which he fought.

    Author James Foster somewhat sympathetically discusses the behaviour of Kilmarnock after his sentencing for treason, and execution on Tower Hill on the 18th August, 1746. Due to the appeals of a number of fellow Freemasons, his sentence was reduced from hanging, drawing and quartering to a beheading.

    Condition

    Unbound, as issued. Handling marks to half title, with half title loosely attached to head only. Otherwise, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with the odd spot and handling mark. Faint tide marks to head of pages 41 to 48.

    Good

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