Defoe had used the same ironical argument for putting Tories in office in 1708.

The advantages of the Pretender's possessing the Crown were that we should be saved from all further danger of a war with France, and should no longer hold the exposed position of a Protestant State among the great Catholic Powers of Europe.

The point of the last pamphlet of the series was less distinct; it suggested the possibility of the English people losing their properties, their estates, inheritance, lands, goods, lives, and liberties, unless they were clear in their own minds what course to take in the event of the Queen's death.

But none of the three Tracts contain anything that could possibly be interpreted as a serious argument in favour of the Pretender.

They were all calculated to support the Succession of the Elector of Hanover.