Popish intrigues and cruelty plainly exemplified , in the affecting case and narrative of Mrs. Frances Shaftoe. Containing an account of her being eleven months in Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's family; where hearing, among many other Treasonable Things, that the Pretended Prince of Wales was Sir Theophilus's son, she was trick'd into France by his Daughters, Anne and Eleanor, and most barbarously used, near the Space of Six Years, to force her to turn Papist and Nun, in order to prevent a Discovery. With the Deposition of a Swiss Protestant Woman, who effected her Escape from a Nunnery in France, into Switzerland, (taken before the Lord Chief Justice Holt) from whence she returned into England, in December 1706.

  • Frances Shaftoe
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MDCCXLV. [1745]
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Popish intrigues and cruelty plainly exemplified, in the affecting case and narrative of Mrs. Frances Shaftoe. Containing an account of her being eleven months in Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's family; where hearing, among many other Treasonable Things, that

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London : printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXLV. [1745]

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