Proclamation of The Old Pretender as James VIII at Mercat Cross, Edinburgh 1745


Original engraving pub circa 1897. On 18 September 1745, the "Young Pretender" Charles Edward Stuart had his father proclaimed King James VIII of Scotland and himself Regent at the Cross


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