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Jacobite Interest and the House of Stuart. Breviarium Suessionense, Illustrissimi & Reverendissimi in Christo Patris D.D. Francisci, Ducis de Fitz-James [...] Episcopi Suessionensis [...], Winter volume only, Suessione [i.e. Soissons]: Apud Viduam Caroli Courtois, 1743, title-page with the arms of FitzJames as Dukes of Berwick flanked by a mitre and crozier, crested by a galero, printed in red and black, double-columns, contents unexamined, early 19th century black morocco, all edges gilt, 12mo, Polyglot Lord's Prayer, [Motte (Benjamin)], Oratio Dominica [...], London: Dan. Brown, et al., 1713, repaired title, plates and final leaf, lacks all after page 71, disbound, 4to, etc., (3).
The Soissons breviary was authorised during the bishopric of François de Fitz-James (1709-1764), an illegitimate grandson of James II of England (1633-1701), who, as well as being Bishop of Soissons (1739-64), was Louis XV's first court chaplain (1742-48).
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