Author: Hooke, (Nathaniel).
Title: SECRET HISTORY OF COLONEL HOOKE’S NEGOTIATIONS in Scotland, in favour of the pretender; in 1707. Including the original letters and papers which passed between the Scotch and Irish lords and the courts of Versailles and St. Germains. Never before published. Written by himself. With a translation of letters, containing a narrative of the Pretender's expedition into Scotland in 1708, and his return to Dunkirk, transmitted to the French court by the commanding officers of the squadron.
Description: London printed for T. Becket, at Tully's Head, near Surry-Street, in the Strand, 1760. 1st English Edition. viii, 236p. ‘6d’ in pen to head of title page, light age toning, rebound in modern calf backed marbled boards, gilt lettered label to spine. ¶ Davies/Keeler 3706; Lowndes II/1106; ESTC T71121. ‘Translation of 'Revolutions d'Ecosse et d'Irlande en 1707, 1708 et 1709' La Haye, 1758. The several parts have separate fly-titles.’ Nathaniel Hooke, Jacobite first Baron Hooke (1664–1738), Jacobite politician. Hooke started life as a puritan and joined the Dukes of Argyll and Monmouth abroad and later participated in Monmouth’s abortive rebellion which ended in defeat at Sedgemoor. Hooke was pardoned in 1688, he became a catholic and a staunch supporter of James II. After James’ abdication he fought with the Jacobites and later with the French army where he rose to high rank. Hooke’s nephew, also Nathaniel Hooke, the historian of Rome partly transcribed the correspondence of Hooke from 1703 to 1707 and probably compiled the above work.

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