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Cover paintings: (top) Portrait of King George III (detail) by Allan Ramsay © Philip Mould Ltd, London/Bridgeman Images; (bottom) Gordon Riots, 1780 by Francis Swain © London Metropolitan Archives, City of London/Bridgeman Images

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fraser, Antonia, 1932– author.

Title: The King and the Catholics : England, Ireland, and the fight for religious freedom, 1780–1829 / Antonia Fraser.

Description: First American edition. | New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [2018].

Identifiers: LCCN 2018015523 (print) | LCCN 2018036937 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385544535 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385544528 (hardcover) | Subjects: LCSH: Great Britain—History—1714–1837. | Great Britain—Politics and government—1714–1837. | Catholic Church—Great Britain—History. | Catholics—Great Britain. | Church and state—Great Britain. | Catholic emancipation.

Classification: LCC DA505 (ebook) | LCC DA505 .F73 2018 (print) | DDC 941.07/3—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015523

Ebook ISBN 9780385544535

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