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THE 1745 REBELLION -- [George MURRAY, Lord (1694-1760)]. A Particular Account of the Battle of Culloden. April 16, 1746 . London: T. Warner, 1749. One of two 8° editions. A 12° edition was also published the same year. [ Bound with :] A Letter to the Right Honourable the E [ ar ]l of T[ raqua ]r. London: R. Freeman, [?1746]. ONLY EDITION. On the conduct of Charles Stuart the fifth Earl of Traquair during the 1745 rebellion. SCARCE. [ and :] [Thomas SAVAGE (fl. 1746)]. A Summary Account of the Marches, Behaviour and Plunder of the Rebels ... by an eye witness . London: T. Sowle, 1746. RARE. 4 copies of this London edition are located in ESTC. RARE. There was also a Dublin piracy (2 copies recorded). [ and :] A Letter from a Gentleman at Edinburgh to his Correspondent at London concerning affairs in Scotland . London: J. English, 1745. (Without half-title.) ONLY EDITION. SCARCE. [ and :] [John WILLISON (1680-1750)]. A Letter to an English Member of Parliament from a Gentleman in Scotland concerning the Slavish Dependencies which .... that Nation is still kept under by Superiorities, Wards, Reliefs and other remains of the Feudal Law . London: M. Cooper, 1746. Second edition. Kress 4838. Together 5 works in one volume, 8° (190 x 115mm), bound with 4 others. Late 19th-century half calf (extremities rubbed). Two of the unlisted tracts, published in 1736, concern the trial of John Porteous; while 2 others are memoirs of the Young Pretender and Lord Lovat.