omg! (A small but nevertheless potent contributor to the many many reasons I am amassing as to Why I Would Not Live in the 18th Century No Matter What.
Actually the footnotes are 19th century! Although yeah, I too would not like to live in the 18th century...
The thesis has pictures of some of those garters, and one of them says "God bless [unreadable] and down with the Rump", with tartan patterns around it. : D The Rump being G1. The garter is folded, I assume it must say King James or something, but it looks like one word. Hmm. The other one says "Our prince is brave and our cause is just".
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Re: Female Jacobites
Date: 2021-12-03 02:32 pm (UTC)Actually the footnotes are 19th century! Although yeah, I too would not like to live in the 18th century...
The thesis has pictures of some of those garters, and one of them says "God bless [unreadable] and down with the Rump", with tartan patterns around it. : D The Rump being G1. The garter is folded, I assume it must say King James or something, but it looks like one word. Hmm. The other one says "Our prince is brave and our cause is just".
More on female Jacobites coming eventually...