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    A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover
    A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover
    A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover
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    A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.

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      A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover - Daniel Defoe

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      Title: A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender

      Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: July 8, 2011 [EBook #36656]

      Language: English

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      Transcriber's Note: This e-book, a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, was originally published in 1712, and was prepared from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, vol. 6 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855). Archaic spellings have been retained as they appear in the original, and obvious printer errors have been corrected without note.

      A Seasonable

      WARNING

      And CAUTION

      Against the

      INSINUATIONS

      Of Papists and Jacobites

      In Favour of the

      PRETENDER.

      Being a LETTER from an ENGLISHMAN

      at the Court of HANOVER.

      And thou shalt teach these Words diligently unto thy Children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy House, and when thou walkest by the Way. Deut. vi. 7.

      And what thou seest write in a Book. Rev. i. 11.

      LONDON: Printed for J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row. 1712.

      A SEASONABLE

      WARNING AND CAUTION

      AGAINST THE

      INSINUATIONS OF PAPISTS AND JACOBITES
      IN FAVOUR OF THE PRETENDER.

      Why how now, England! what ailest thee now? What evil spirit now possesseth thee! O thou nation famous for espousing religion, and defending liberty; eminent in all ages for pulling down tyrants,[1] and adhering steadily to the fundamentals of thy own constitution:[2] that has not only secured thy own rights, and handed them down unimpaired to every succeeding age, but has been the sanctuary of other oppressed nations;[3] the strong protector of injured subjects against the lawless invasion of oppressing tyrants.

      To thee the oppressed protestants of France owed, for some ages ago, the comfort of being powerfully supported, while their own king,[4] wheedled by the lustre of a crown, became apostate, and laid the foundation of their ruin among themselves; in thee their posterity[5] find a refuge, and flourish in thy wealth and trade, when religion and liberty find no

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