Genuine and impartial memoirs of the life and character of Charles Ratcliffe , Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8, 1746. With an Account of his Family, and how far he was concerned in the Rebellion in 1715; the Inducements that occasioned his coming over to England, in 1735; and also the last Time with the Officers of Dillon's Regiment in the Irish Brigade in the French Service. To which is Added, A true Account of his Dying Behaviour and Last Words. Also a full Answer to the Letter inserted in the Daily Advertiser on Saturday, December 6, 1746, relating to these Memoirs. Wrote by a gentleman of the family, to prevent the Publick being imposed on by any erroneous or partial Accounts to the Prejudice of this unfortunate Gentleman.

Genuine and impartial memoirs of the life and character of Charles Ratcliffe , Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8, 1746. With an Account of his Family, and how far he was concerned in the Rebellion in 1715; the Inducements that occasioned his coming over to England, in 1735; and also the last Time with the Officers of Dillon's Regiment, in the Irish Brigade in the French Service. To which is Added, a true Account of his dying behaviour and last words. Also a full Answer to the Letter inserted in the Daily Advertiser on Saturday, December 6, 1746, relating to these Memoirs. Wrote by a gentleman of the family, to prevent the Publick being imposed on by any erroneous or partial Accounts to the Prejudice of this unfortunate Gentleman.

A sketch of the life and character of Mr. Ratcliffe : containing the part he acted in the Rebellion, in the year 1715, his sentence and escape out of Newgate, his adventures for these 30 years past, his behaviour in the Tower since he was last made prisoner, and the execution awarded against him on his former sentence.

A genuine and impartial account of the remarkable life and vicissitudes of fortune of Charles Ratcliffe , Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8. 1746. for High-Treason, in being in the Rebellion in the Year 1715. With a full Account of the Rebellion in England and Scotland at that Time. Also the Proceedings that were had against his Brother, the late Earl of Derwentwater; Together with both his Speeches; the first that he made at the Bar of the House of Lords, when he received Judgment of Death; and the other that he made on the Scaffold, just before his Execution on Tower-Hill, Feb. 14. 1715-6. And in the Course of the Work, is related both their Behaviours on the Mornings of their Executions, and their last Dying Words on the Scaffold. By Gerard Penrice.

Genuine and impartial memoirs of the life and character of Charles Ratcliffe , Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8, 1746. With an Account of his Family, and how far he was concerned in the Rebellion in 1715; the Inducements that occasioned his coming over to England, in 1725; and also the last Time with the Officers of Dillon's Regiment in the French Service. To which is Added, a true Account of his Dying Behaviour and Last Words; Also the Speech of the Earl of Derwentwater his Brother on the Scaffold. To the Whole is prefixed, a full Answer to the Letter inserted in the Daily Advertiser on Saturday, December 6, 1746, relating to these Memoirs. By a gentleman of the family, to prevent the Publick being imposed on by any erroneous or partial Accounts to the Prejudice of this unfortunate Gentleman.

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Radcliffe, Charles, 1693-1746.

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