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‎HISTOIRE du droit héréditaire de la Couronne de Grande Bretagne. Ecrit en faveur du Prince de Galles, Par quelqu'un de son parti, & pour laquelle le Docteur Bedford a été Condamné depuis peu à Westmunster. Refutée par des remarques, Sur le véritable droit de la Reine, les justes motifs de la revolution, et la succession de l'illustre maison d'Hanover. Traduit de l'Anglois. Tome Premier [-Second.] ‎

‎A La Haye, Chez Pierre Husson, 1714. Two volumes in one. (2), 260 pp.; 138, 88 pp. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, sprinkled edges, some imperfections to front cover. First French edition of Treason unmask'd: or The Queen's title, the revolution, and the Hanover succession vindicated, 1713; which is an attack on The hereditary right of the crown of England asserted, by George Harbin. The work by Harbin was wrongly attributed to Hilkiah Bedford. Bedford was sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine. The reverend George Harbin became chaplain to Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, whose exemple he followed at the Glorious Revolution by refusing to take the oaths to the new rulers. After Turner's death he became chaplain and librarian to Viscount Weymouth.The Glorious Revolution brought William of Orange on the throne of England and his acceptance as the ruler of England, with his wife Mary, daughter of James II of England, deeply devided the Anglican Church over whether William and Mary could be legally recognized as sovereigns, and a group of Anglican ministers refused the oaths: they were called "Nonjurors".The Glorious Revolution removed the Catholic king James II from the throne and also prevented a French-English alliance coming into existence.In the year this translation was published the House of Hanover (mentioned in the title) came to the throne with George I as monarch of Great Britain and Ireland.The first part of the work is entitled "Le Masque de la Trahison Levé dans la Defense du Droit Hereditaire de la Couronne d'Angleterre, &c." the second part is entitled "Le Masque de la Trahison Levé dans le Livre du Droit Hereditaire ecrit en faveur du Prince de Galles, par le Docteur Hidgen" and contains at the end (the last 88 pages) "Remarques sur le Droit Hereditaire, &c." The attack on Hidgen in this French translation is also interesting: he first belonged to the "Nonjurors" but later changed his mind and took the oaths. ‎

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