de in the well-known verse: God bless the King, I mean the faiths defender;God bless—no harm in blessing—the Pretender ;But who pretender is, or who is king,—God bless us all,—thats quite another thing. It is possible to meet, here and there, withglasses dedicated to the early Georges, butthese are… … Memorial Glasses of course, date from the revolution of 1688,when party feeling on the one side ran as highin favour of Dutch William as it did on theother in favour of the House of Stuart. Manyof them were undoubtedly produced in Ireland,the more interesting commemorating thebattle of the Boyne.…
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