item: #1 of 5 id: 13918 author: Fea, Allan title: Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. date: None words: 35046 flesch: 63 summary: Many old houses in Clerkenwell were, sixty or seventy years ago, notorious thieves' dens, and were noted for their hiding-places, trap-doors, etc., for evading the vigilance of the law. Occasionally, in old houses, unmeaning gaps and spaces are met with in the upper rooms midway between floor and ceiling, which possibly at one time were used as bed-head hiding-places. keywords: building; castle; chamber; chapel; chapter; charles; chimney; close; court; days; door; entrance; escape; family; feet; fireplace; floor; footnote; fugitive; hall; hiding; hole; house; illustration; james; king; lady; little; manor house; mansion; night; old; panel; passage; place; priest; prince; room; search; seat; secret; sir; staircase; time; tradition; trap; wall; way; years cache: 13918.txt plain text: 13918.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 18357 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden date: None words: 115503 flesch: 82 summary: We had more than one hot fight, and lost many good men. In the first place, because I know he will do it well, and even those who consider that I am rash and headstrong, admit that I have the knack of picking out good men. keywords: army; captain; charles; charlie; company; country; course; day; days; doubt; father; fellow; fire; gentlemen; good; half; harry; head; horses; hour; house; jervoise; king; left; life; man; marmaduke; matter; men; money; morning; news; night; officers; place; present; round; russians; service; sir; sweden; swedish; thought; time; town; troops; way; work cache: 18357.txt plain text: 18357.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 20947 author: Thomson, A. T., Mrs. title: Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II. date: None words: 101686 flesch: 62 summary: His father, nearly connected in blood with William the Third, was appointed to the command of a regiment by that Monarch, and entrusted with several posts of great importance, which he retained in the time of Queen Anne, until a plot was formed to ruin him by Lord Lovat, who endeavoured to implicate the Duke in the affair commonly known by the name of the Queensbury plot. According to Lord Lovat, the arch-enemy of the Athole family, the Duke had not any considerable portion of that quality in his character, which Lord Lovat represents as one compound of meanness, treachery, and revenge, and attributes the hatred with which Athole persecuted the brave and unfortunate Duke of Argyle, to the circumstance of his having received a blow from that nobleman before the whole Court at Edinburgh, without having the spirit to return the insult.[44] It appears, from the same authority, that the loyalty which the Duke of Athole professed towards King William was of a very questionable description. keywords: account; argyle; arms; athole; brother; castle; cause; character; charles; chief; clan; country; court; culloden; day; days; death; duke; earl; edinburgh; england; estates; family; father; favour; forbes; france; fraser; friends; general; good; government; great; head; highland; house; jacobite; james; john; king; lady; lady lovat; letter; life; little; london; lord kenmure; lord lovat; lord nithisdale; maclean; man; marquis; master; men; murray; order; party; people; person; place; power; prince; rebellion; rob; roy; scotland; second; simon; sir; son; state; time; tullibardine; william; years cache: 20947.txt plain text: 20947.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 20948 author: Thomson, A. T., Mrs. title: Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. date: None words: 148399 flesch: 64 summary: It was not only in regard to Lord George Murray that the influence of the Secretary was prejudicial to the Prince's interests; neither was Lord George the only person whom he dreaded as a rival. When pressed by Lord George Murray to give him full instructions, he hesitated; Lord George entreated him, if he could not decide during his presence in the camp, that the Prince would send instructions after him.[84] When he would not come to any fixed resolution before I came away, I begged his Royal Highness would send his intentions and instructions after me, that I might conduct myself by them; but his secretary told me plainly, he took that matter to be his province, as he seems indeed to take everything upon him both as to civil and military. keywords: account; arms; army; atholl; battle; brother; captain; carlisle; castle; cause; character; charles; chevalier; conduct; country; cumberland; day; days; death; derby; drummond; duke; earl; edinburgh; edward; enemy; england; english; family; father; flora; following; friends; general; george murray; good; government; head; highlanders; honour; hope; house; jacobite; james; king; kingsburgh; lady; left; letter; life; london; lord balmerino; lord elcho; lord george; lord john; lord kilmarnock; macdonald; man; march; marquis; maxwell; men; mind; morning; night; officers; order; party; people; person; perth; place; present; prince; prince charles; prisoners; radcliffe; retreat; royal; scotland; service; sir; son; state; stuart; thought; time; town; troops; unfortunate; way; year cache: 20948.txt plain text: 20948.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 36769 author: Defoe, Daniel title: And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain date: None words: 8711 flesch: 28 summary: The next thing which they fill us with apprehensions of in the coming of the pretender, is the influence of French councils, which they construe thus, viz., That the pretender being restored here by the assistance of France, will not only rule us by French methods, viz., by French tyranny, but in gratitude to his restorer he will cause us to be always ready with English blood and treasure to assist and support the French ambition in the invasions he will ever be making upon Europe, and in the oppressions of other nations; till at last he obtain the superiority over them all, and turn upon us too, devouring the liberties of Europe in his so long purposed and resolved universal monarchy. If, we say, it should appear then that the dangers and disadvantages of the pretender's succession are less than those of the house of Hanover, who, because of an act of Parliament, you know must not be called pretenders, then there will remain nothing more to be said on that score, but the debate must be of the reasonableness and justice on either side, for their admittance; and there we question not but the side we are really pleading for will have the advantage. keywords: advantages; france; french; government; king; nation; people; power; pretender cache: 36769.txt plain text: 36769.txt