1 10 1 https://scottishresearchcollections.lib.uoguelph.ca/files/original/018dcb9e6d51878cf3c7af968c4eff24.pdf e85f53b77145abf2786ea73b1839e04a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jacobite Intelligence Letter, September 19, 1715 Description An account of the resource Transcription: 19th September 1715 A gentleman, who held one of the highest positions in the court of the late Queen, and who is a zealous Jacobite, has assured me positively that three months ago, M. de Marlborough held a secret correspondence with the Pretender. He confirmed this to me this morning and when I affected doubt, he repeated it several times in the affirmative to the point of telling me through which channels the letters passed and which he received. He added finally that he had run a great risk of being sent to the Tower in the beginnings of the Pretender's campaign. He came to ask me whether the friends of the Pretender could count on the assistance of M. le Duc d'Orleans. I tried to content them with my answer. With regard to similar questions, know that I do not have any instructions on this matter, and thus could not produce anything but my own ideas. I would deserve to be chastised if I gave to the Jacobites without an express order, any hopes, which although trivial, would be capable of bringing discord between the King of England and the King, and on the other hand the only pity I have for them compells me to spare them the disappointment into which I would hurl them in destroying the hopes with which they flatter themselves. I often feel, Monseigneur, the trouble there is in keeping up with the different persons as I am obliged to do in speaking successively to Whigs, Torys, Jacobites, ladies, priests and other people of whom the larger part would be capable of misusing that of which I speak, some through infidelity, others through indiscretions. If the Scottish stand firm and if the leaders of the party who are distributed throughout England, ready to lift their disguises, receive the news that the Pretender is determined to risk everything and comes to put himself to their test, there is every indication that fires will alight all of a sudden in diverse parts of England and throughout the court, little served by the fidelity of troops, will find itself quite at a loss for means to make peace in so many places at once. I will carry out, Monseigneur, with the punctuality which it deserves, the order you give me on the part of M. le Duc d'Orleans to continue to separate in these letters the matters which require the most secrecy. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jacobite Collection Description An account of the resource The University of Guelph Library purchased a collection of Jacobite materials for the Scottish Studies Collection in 1975 with a grant from the Macdonald Stewart Foundation of Montreal. Today, the collection includes over 450 Jacobite and anti-Jacobite works including Jacobite histories, biographies, fictional accounts, speeches, sermons, polemics, satires, chapbooks, broadsides, letters, manuscript materials, and artefacts. The Jacobite period spanned a number of important political, religious, and economic events in Scotland. Separate from the Jacobite Collection Archival & Special Collections also holds related complementary materials such as Scottish chapbooks containing Jacobite songs, ballads, and poetry popular in the 19th century, and materials related to other contemporary political, religious, and socio-economic events including the Darien colony scheme in 1698-99, and the Act of Union with England in 1707. The provenance of the materials varies but bookplates represented in the collection include those of Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm, the 17th Laird of Poltalloch, a member of Parliament, and Chieftain of Clan Malcolm/MacCallum; Duncan MacNeill, the 1st Baron Colonsay; book collectors Alasdair Campbell of Kilmartin (d. 1901) and John Whitefoord Mackenzie; and the Scottish-American industrialist, Andrew Carnegie, among others. Digitization of the Jacobite Collection began early in 2022 and has been made possible with support from Kevin James, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair & Professor of History, and Curtis Sassur, Head, Archival & Special Collections. Acknowledgements Ashley Shifflett McBrayne, Special Collections Librarian (Acting) - Project Lead Graham Burt, Archival & Special Collections Associate Gavin Hughes, M.A. Student, History Andrew Northey, M.A. Student, History Wilda Thumm, M.A. Student, History Bev Buckie, Archival & Special Collections Associate Lara Carleton, Archival & Special Collections Clerk Gillian Manford, Archival & Special Collections Clerk Adam Doan, Systems Architect and Developer Ali Versluis, Head, Research & Scholarship (Acting) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1688 to approximately 1923 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Manuscript Text Any textual data included in the document 19th September 1715 A gentleman, who held one of the highest positions in the court of the late Queen, and who is a zealous Jacobite, has assured me positively that three months ago, M. de Marlborough held a secret correspondence with the Pretender. He confirmed this to me this morning and when I affected doubt, he repeated it several times in the affirmative to the point of telling me through which channels the letters passed and which he received. He added finally that he had run a great risk of being sent to the Tower in the beginnings of the Pretender's campaign. He came to ask me whether the friends of the Pretender could count on the assistance of M. le Duc d'Orleans. I tried to content them with my answer. With regard to similar questions, know that I do not have any instructions on this matter, and thus could not produce anything but my own ideas. I would deserve to be chastised if I gave to the Jacobites without an express order, any hopes, which although trivial, would be capable of bringing discord between the King of England and the King, and on the other hand the only pity I have for them compells me to spare them the disappointment into which I would hurl them in destroying the hopes with which they flatter themselves. I often feel, Monseigneur, the trouble there is in keeping up with the different persons as I am obliged to do in speaking successively to Whigs, Torys, Jacobites, ladies, priests and other people of whom the larger part would be capable of misusing that of which I speak, some through infidelity, others through indiscretions. If the Scottish stand firm and if the leaders of the party who are distributed throughout England, ready to lift their disguises, receive the news that the Pretender is determined to risk everything and comes to put himself to their test, there is every indication that fires will alight all of a sudden in diverse parts of England and throughout the court, little served by the fidelity of troops, will find itself quite at a loss for means to make peace in so many places at once. I will carry out, Monseigneur, with the punctuality which it deserves, the order you give me on the part of M. le Duc d'Orleans to continue to separate in these letters the matters which require the most secrecy. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 19, 1715 Description An account of the resource Manuscript Jacobite Intelligence Letter dated Sept 19 1715. Part of a group of three intelligence letters. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://ocul-gue.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_GUE/1gg5hgs/alma9924003993505154">XS1 MS A203</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF derived from master file, which was scanned from the original book in 24-bit color at 600 dpi in TIFF format using an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In the public domain; For high quality reproductions, contact Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph. libaspc@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120, Ext. 53413 Type The nature or genre of the resource Autograph letter Title A name given to the resource Autograph letter from Charles D'Iberville to "Monseigneur" (a high ranking official), reporting contacts with Jacobites in England and their activities at court and in Scotland, and relaying varied diplomatic information, dated September 19, 1715. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource D'Iberville, Charles, marquis de La Bonde (1653–1723) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1 sheet folded (4 pages) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Language A language of the resource French and encoded John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) Letters Manuscripts