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Pretenders to the throne

Someone who claims to be rightful holder of a throne that is vacant or held by another

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    Mrs. Frances Shaftoe's narrative . Containing an account of her being in Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's family; where hearing many Treasonable Things, and among others, that the pretended Prince of Wales was Sir Theophilus's son, she was trick'd into France by Sir Theophilus's Daughter, and barbarously us'd to make her turn Papist and Nun, in order to prevent a Discovery; but at last made her Escape to Suisserland, and from thence arriv'd in England, in December, 1706.

    Frances Shaftoe | Date: printed in the year, 1707
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    Mrs. Frances Shaftoe's narrative . Containing an account of her being in Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's family; where hearing many Treasonable Things, and among others, that the pretended Prince of Wales was Sir Theophilus's son, she was trick'd into France by Sir Theophilus's Daughters, and barbarously us'd to make her turn Papist and Nun, in order to prevent a Discovery; but at last made her Escape to Suisserland, and from thence arriv'd in England, in December, 1706.

    Frances Shaftoe | Date: Printed in the Year 1707

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