• Nathaniel Hooke (1664–1738) was a Franco-Irish Jacobite soldier, diplomatic envoy for the King of France and a Baron in the Jacobite Peerage of Ireland...
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    Nathaniel Hooke (c. 1687 – 19 July 1763) was an English historian. He was the eldest son of John Hooke, serjeant-at-law, and nephew of Nathaniel Hooke...
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    with England and Scotland, sent secret agent Nathaniel Hooke to foment a Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland. Hooke landed at New Slains Castle, having been brought...
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  • corresponded with Queen Mary about the Scottish Jacobites’ terms. Twice, she hosted Nathaniel Hooke on his visits to Scotland, receiving him at her castle...
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    and the Jacobites served a similar function for the French. Jacobite agent Nathaniel Hooke convinced Louis XIV there was support for a Jacobite rising...
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  • Thomas Buchan (category People of the Jacobite rising of 1689)
    1707 surveyed the defences of Inverness at the request of Jacobite agent Nathaniel Hooke. Jacobite politician and agent George Lockhart mentions Buchan in...
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  • David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont (category People of the Jacobite rising of 1715)
    the Jacobite rising of 1715, having hosted the Pretender at Scone Palace for three weeks during the rising. He was described by Nathaniel Hooke as being...
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    The Jacobite peerage includes those peerages created by James II and VII, and the subsequent Jacobite pretenders, after James's deposition from the thrones...
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    restored essentially the original version. During the same year King met Nathaniel Hooke at Dr. George Cheyne's house at Bath, Somerset, and acted as his amanuensis...
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    William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure (category Marquesses in the Jacobite peerage)
    1707 he was one of the Jacobite peers for whose conduct David Murray, fifth Viscount Stormont, answered to Colonel Nathaniel Hooke, envoy from St Germain...
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  • Lockhart, The Lockhart Papers (2 vols, London, 1817), ed. Anthony Aufrere Nathaniel Hooke, Correspondence, edited by William D. Macray (Roxburghe Club, 2 vols...
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    the Jacobites from the court of Louis XIV of France to enquire if the Old Pretender could claim his monarchy in Scotland at least. Colonel Nathaniel Hook...
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    enforce Whig rule from London after the Jacobite uprising of 1715. Macpherson's uncle, Ewen Macpherson joined the Jacobite army in the 1745 march south, when...
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  • ten percent of the population. 1744: The French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails. 1748: The Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the...
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  • because of reservations in British ministerial quarters about his Irish and Jacobite roots. He later served as Prime Minister of Spain.  This article incorporates...
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    life. When Johnson was three, his brother Nathaniel was born. In a letter he wrote to his mother, Nathaniel complained that Johnson "would scarcely ever...
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    at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where his portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland survives in the college's collection. In 1675, Charles's...
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  • – Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet of England (b. 1640) March 3 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635) March 12 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford...
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  • for the insane moves to new buildings in Moorfields designed by Robert Hooke, which had begun construction in April 1675. Summer: The Royal Greenwich...
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    January – Edmond Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square...
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  • Anglo-Dutch navy is defeated by the French, giving rise to fears of a Jacobite invasion of England. July 11 (July 1 O.S.) – Battle of the Boyne in Ireland:...
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  • students of the arts. The first Maroon community arises in Suriname. Robert Hooke discovers that cork is made of "tiny little rooms", which he first calls...
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