'The Escape of Lord Nithsdale from the Tower, 1716', 1886. Artist: P Fraenkel.

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'The Escape of Lord Nithsdale from the Tower, 1716', 1886. William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale (1676-1744) a Catholic nobleman, who took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715. escaped execution by exchanging clothes with his wife's maid. After Emily Mary Osborn (1828-1925). From Illustration of English and Scottish History, Volume I by Thomas Archer. [Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1886]

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