July 18, 1811

William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 to December 24, 1863 ) wrote regarding the transition to the Hanover monarchy, in Britain, in 1715, a change challenged by the Jacobite followers of the displaced Stuart cause,

When [one of the Jacobilte rebels]...was carried off to the...[the Tower of London] a few years afterwards, and it was asked, what next should be done with him ?" Done with him? Fling him to the lions," Cadogan said, Marlborough's lieutenant. But the British lion of those days did not care much for drinking the blood of peaceful peers and poets, or crunching the bones of bishops. Only four men were executed in London for the rebellion of 1715; and twenty-two in Lancashire. Above a thousand taken in arms, submitted to the king's mercy, and petitioned to be transported to his majesty's colonies in America. I have heard that their descendants took the loyalist side in the disputes.

The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life (1860) is a history Thackeray wrote. This book illustrates the familiar themes shown more often seen in his novels, that is to say, a broad satirical look at English society.