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    And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain
    And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain
    And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain
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    And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.

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      And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain - Daniel Defoe

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      Title: And What if the Pretender should Come?

      Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real

      Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of

      Great Britain

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: July 17, 2011 [EBook #36769]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRETENDER ***

      Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. In

      memory of Steven Gibbs (1938-2009).

      Transcriber's Note: This e-book, a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, was originally published in 1713, and was prepared from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, vol. 6 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855). Archaic spellings have been retained as they appear in the original, and obvious printer errors have been corrected without note.

      AND

      What if the Pretender should come?

      OR SOME

      CONSIDERATIONS

      OF THE

      ADVANTAGES

      AND

      REAL CONSEQUENCES

      OF THE

      PRETENDER’S

      Possessing the

      CROWN OF GREAT BRITAIN.

      LONDON:

      Printed, and Sold by J. Baker, at the Black Boy

      in Pater-Noster-Row. 1713. [Price 6d.]

      AND WHAT IF THE PRETENDER

      SHOULD COME?

      OR SOME CONSIDERATIONS, &c.

      If the danger of the pretender is really so great as the noise which some make about it seems to suppose, if the hopes of his coming are so well grounded, as some of his friends seem to boast, it behoves us who are to be the subjects of the approaching revolution, which his success must necessarily bring with it, to apply ourselves seriously to examine what our part will be in the play, that so we may prepare ourselves to act as becomes us, both with respect to the government we are now under, and with respect to the government we may be under, when the success he promises himself shall (if ever it shall) answer his expectation.

      In order to this it is necessary to state, with what plainness the circumstances of the case will admit, the several appearances of the thing itself. 1. As they are offered to us by the respective parties who are for or against it. 2. As they really appear by an impartial deduction from them both, without the least bias either to one side or other; that so the people of Britain may settle and compose their thoughts a little in this great, and at present popular, debate; and may neither be terrified nor affrighted with mischiefs, which have no reason nor foundation in them, and which give no ground for their apprehensions; and, on the other hand, may not promise to themselves greater things from the pretender, if he should come hither, than he will be able to perform for them. In order to this we are to consider the pretender in his person and in his circumstances. 1. The person who we call the pretender; it has been so much debated, and such strong parties have been made on both sides to prove or disprove the legitimacy of his birth, that it seems needless here to enter into that dispute; the author of the Review, one of the most furious opposers of the name and interest of the pretender, openly grants his

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