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[John Donald Publishers], [Published date: 1984]. Hardcover, ix, 220 pp; 24 cm; First edition, Very good in good dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing to edges. Heavily faded from original green to yellow. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. [From front jacket flap] By concentrating in depth on a unique period when the Jacobites were attempting to gain their ends through conventional political action the author shows their influence on the mainstream of Toryism, and sheds new light on the vexed question of the extent to which the first Tory party was intrinsically committed to Jacobitism by the time of the Hanoverian succession in 1714. In the course of his study of Jacobitism in action, Dr Szechi has also written the first detailed study of the events and crises of these years from the point of view of backbenchers at Westminster, and provides a fresh appraisal of their role, self-image and the degree to which their leaders could control them in the first age of the party. The book provides the student with an insight into the natures of Jacobitism and the Tory party and an understanding of the confused politics of these momentous years. Contents include: Acknowledgements; Notes on Dates and Abbreviations; Introduction; 'A strange confused chaos': Jacobite organisation, 1710-14; 'Our rebellious kingdoms': the Jacobite perception of British politics; 'The Church in Danger': the Jacobites and the general election of 1710; 'Honest countrey-men and dutiful subjects': the parliamentary session of 1710-11; 'Creatures and Slaves to the Ministry': the session of 1711-12; 'All opposition and discouragement': the session of 1713; 'Popery and the Pretender': the Jacobites and the election of 1713; 'The King's service most at heart': the session of 1714; 'Very full of nothing': the Harley ministry's negotiations with the Jacobites, 1710-14; Conclusion; Appendices: List of M.P.'s and peers with probable Jacobite leanings, 1710-14; Forecast of the voting in the 1710 Scots Representative Peers' election; Bibliography; Index.