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FEUDING AND RIVALRY IN AN EXILED COURT

n this fascinating special issue, we have been exploring the nature and purpose of Jacobite intelligence gathering and networks in the early 18th century, and the volume under the spotlight here complements this with its focus on the exiled Jacobite court at

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