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BC MS Lt 19, f. 1v: An extract from
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A satyr on the political state of Great Britain

1716?

Satirical Whig attack on the Tory conduct of political affairs from ca.1710, and then on their part in inciting rebellion against George I, particularly the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 (described).

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