(1) There were always undercurrents: rumours about the Earl's close male friendships, or hints that this leading Hanoverian Whig might hide Jacobite sympathies.(2) The Stuarts brought us lives of shame; the Hanoverians wars;(3) They backed the Union and the Hanoverians because they knew the Union would guarantee their church,u2019 he says.(4) Legend has it that it has not been inhabited since 1715, when the Macdonalds of Clanranald, fleeing the Hanoverians , torched the stronghold to stop it falling into their enemies' hands.(5) The Harleys, who once enjoyed political favor and high office under the Stuarts but were marginalized by the Hanoverians during Sir Robert Walpole's regime, were the most archivally minded of English peers.(6) Her branch of the Hanoverian royal house only took over when the last Stuart monarch, Anne, died childless in 1714 and they had to bypass 70-odd better claimants because they were Catholic.(7) Even the least impressive of the Hanoverians , the narrow-minded and mean-spirited King George II, had the common sense to accept restraints on his powers.(8) Rev Dr Ian Bradley will speak on the spiritual roots of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon kingship, while Jeremy Black will discuss the Hanoverian monarchy in the context of the European ancien regime.(9) The Germans preferred solid Hanoverians and Trakheners, and one German officer commented on the u2018cat-like Arab mountsu2019 ridden by French hussars.(10) The chair has spent at least part of its life in Germany, and it is conceivable that it was removed there as a perquisite by a Hanoverian courtier or possible by George I himself.(11) With these words Samuel Johnson summarized a view of the law which would have been readily understandable to many Hanoverian Englishmen and women.(12) Jacobite hopes centred on the facts that Britain was heavily engaged in the War of the AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, and that the Hanoverians had never been popular.(13) A moving force here had been the MP for East Lothian, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, an eloquent, choleric philosopher whose own vote would have gone for a federal Britain under the Hanoverians .(14) As a former deserter from the Hanoverian army to Prince Charles Edward Stewart after the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745, Allan Breck would have been given short shrift at the end of a rope had he fallen into redcoat hands.(15) Though it was little used under the later Stuarts and Hanoverians , it was restored by George IV, Victoria, and George V, and is now used frequently.(16) The Georgian architecture is as sober and coldly rational as the Celtic art of the Book of Kells is spontaneous and humorous: an authentic expression of Hanoverian Protestantism at its most severe and least sympathetic.
