CELEBRATED CLAIMANTS

FROM

PERKIN WARBECK TO ARTHUR ORTON.

CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

1874.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS

JACK CADE—THE PRETENDED MORTIMER.

LAMBERT SIMNEL—THE FALSE EARL OF WARWICK.

PERKIN WARBECK—THE SHAM DUKE OF YORK.

DON SEBASTIAN—THE LOST KING OF PORTUGAL.

JEMELJAN PUGATSCHEFF—THE FICTITIOUS PETER III.

OTREFIEF—THE SHAM PRINCE DIMITRI.

PADRE OTTOMANO—THE SUPPOSED HEIR OF SULTAN IBRAHIM.

MOHAMMED BEY—THE COUNTERFEIT VISCOUNT DE CIGALA.

THE SELF-STYLED PRINCE OF MODENA.

JOSEPH—THE FALSE COUNT SOLAR.

JOHN LINDSAY CRAWFURD—CLAIMING TO BE EARL OF CRAWFURD.

JOHN NICHOLS THOM, ALIAS SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY.

JAMES ANNESLEY—CALLING HIMSELF EARL OF ANGLESEA.

CAPTAIN HANS-FRANCIS HASTINGS, CLAIMING TO BE EARL OF HUNTINGDON.

REBOK—THE COUNTERFEIT VOLDEMAR, ELECTOR OF BRANDENBURG.

ARNOLD DU TILH—THE PRETENDED MARTIN GUERRE.

PIERRE MÊGE—THE FICTITIOUS DE CAILLE.

MICHAEL FEYDY—THE SHAM CLAUDE DE VERRE.

THE BANBURY PEERAGE CASE.

JAMES PERCY—THE SO-CALLED EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.

THE DOUGLAS PEERAGE CASE.

ALEXANDER HUMPHREYS—THE PRETENDED EARL OF STIRLING.

THE SO-CALLED HEIRS OF THE STUARTS.

JOHN HATFIELD—THE SHAM HONOURABLE ALEXANDER HOPE.

HERVAGAULT—SOI-DISANT LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE.

MATURIN BRUNEAU—SOI-DISANT LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE.

NAÜNDORFF—SOI-DISANT LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE.

AUGUSTUS MEVES—SOI-DISANT LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE.

RICHEMONT—SOI-DISANT LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE.

THE REV. ELEAZAR WILLIAMS—SOI-DISANT LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE.

THOMAS PROVIS—CALLING HIMSELF SIR RICHARD HUGH SMYTH.

LAVINIA JANNETTA HORTON RYVES—THE PRETENDED PRINCESS OF CUMBERLAND.

WILLIAM GEORGE HOWARD—THE PRETENDED EARL OF WICKLOW.

AMELIA RADCLIFFE—THE SO-CALLED COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER.

ARTHUR ORTON—WHO CLAIMED TO BE SIR ROGER CHARLES DOUGHTY TICHBORNE, BART.