The Lockhart Papers

The full title of this work:

The Lockhart Papers containing memoires and commentaries upon the affairsof Scotland from 1702 to 1715 by George Lockhart, Esq. of Carnwath. 

His Secret Correspondence with the Son of King James the Second from 1718 to 1728,,

And his other political writings:

Also, Journals amd memoirs of the Young Pretender's expedition in 1745, by Highlad Officers in his Army.

Published from original Manuscripts in the possession of Anthony Aufrere, Esq. of Hoveton, Norfolk.

Sir George Lockhart of Lee (1673 -1731), of Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, was a Scottish writer and Jacobite politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland prior to the act of Union in 1707 and then and at Westmisnter 1708 to 1715. Although a  1707 but acted as an informant to his Jacobite colleagues and later wrote an anonymous memoir of its dealings. He supported the Stuart cause in the Jacobite rising.

From the library of George Marton - Ex-libris bookplate with crest on inside end page.

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