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17 unusual facts about jacobitism


Bishop of Edinburgh

In 1690 it was Bishop Alexander Rose (1687–1720) whose unwelcome reply to King William III led to the disestablishment of the Scottish Episcopalians as Jacobite sympathisers, and it was he who led his congregation from St. Giles to a former wool store as their meeting house, on the site now occupied by Old Saint Paul's Church.

Captain Flint

In this version, Flint is described as having started his piratical career as the junior partner of Andrew Murray, an idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, who is not referenced in Stevenson's original book.

Catherine Cranston

The menu card designed by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh shows the name for the tearooms, The White Cockade, but makes no visual connection with this reference to Jacobitism.

Château de Serrant

In 1749, the estate was sold by the last surviving descendant of the de Bautru family and was bought by Antoine Walsh, a shipowner whose family were exiled Jacobites.

Dillon's Regiment

Dillon's Regiment (French: régiment de Dillon) was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon, for the Jacobite side in the Williamite War.

Eveline Cruickshanks

Eveline Cruickshanks is an historian specialising in Jacobitism and Toryism.

Lachin y Gair

In the third and fourth stanzas, Byron mentions his Jacobite ancestors who haunt the area and who were "Ill starr'd, though brave, did no visions foreboding/Tell you that fate had forsaken your cause?/Ah! were you destined to die at Culloden" Byron himself says

Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh

Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh (1723-1787) was a Jacobite of the Clan Farquharson and the wife of Angus, Chief of the Clan MacKintosh.

Laying on of hands

Queen Anne was the last British monarch to claim to possess this divine ability, though the Jacobite pretenders also claimed to do so.

London Evening Post

The London Evening Post was a pro-Jacobite Tory English newspaper published in Great Britain (now United Kingdom) from 1727 until 1797.

Ralph Delaval

Shortly thereafter, Delaval was involved in intrigue at court where he was regarded as a possible Jacobite sympathiser and he lost his command.

Scottish Gaelic literature

As an observer of the natural world of Scotland and a Jacobite rebel, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was the most overtly nationalist poet in Gaelic of the 18th century.

Sir John Kirwan

While he supported the Jacobite side in during the Williamite War in Ireland, he surrendered on terms to General Ginkel, was pardoned, and was allowed to hold his property.

Stratford Eyre

Much of the dissent centred on Robert Martin of Dangan, the leader of the Connacht Jacobites and a leading Freemason.

The Heart of Midlothian

Also central to the novel is the early-18th century Jacobitism, a theme found in so many of Scott’s novels.

Thomas Lord

His father was a Roman Catholic yeoman, who had his lands sequestered for supporting the Jacobite rising in 1745 and afterwards he had to work as a labourer.

Whiteboys

At Cappoquin they fired guns and marched by the military barracks playing the Jacobite tune "The lad with the white cockade".


1702 in Ireland

January - Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally (died 1766), French general, born at Romans, Dauphin, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French noblewoman.

1752 in Great Britain

17 March - Parliament passes a bill to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.

1766 in Great Britain

1 January - Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism, on the death of his father James Francis Edward Stuart, Pretender since 1701.

Alexis Simon Belle

This was a period of peace between France and Great Britain, and Jacobites could cross the English Channel carrying portraits of James Edward Stuart (who at his father's death in 1701 became the Jacobite claimant to the British throne) and his sister Princess Louisa Maria.

Anne Oglethorpe

Monod, Paul Kleber, Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Battle of Sedgemoor

Other contenders for the title of last English battle include: the Battle of Preston in Lancashire, which was fought on 14 November 1715, during the First Jacobite Rebellion; the Second Jacobite Rebellion's Clifton Moor Skirmish, near Penrith, Cumberland, on 18 December 1745; and the skirmish known as the Battle of Graveney Marsh in Kent on 27 September 1940.

Belhaven, Scotland

, (d. 24 June 1709), a Writer (solicitor), Justice of the Peace, and Clerk to the Exchequer, was the first to change his designation from 'of Belhaven & West Barns' to 'of Beilmouth', and had descendants with Jacobite sympathies, his third wife being an Ogilvie.

Bonnie Dundee

Bonnie Dundee is the of title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.

Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury

In 1694 he again became Secretary of State; but there is some evidence that as early as 1690, when he resigned, he had gone over to the Jacobites and was in correspondence with James at his court in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, though it has been stated on the other hand that these relations were entered upon with William's connivance for reasons of policy.

Charles, Prince of Rochefort

He married Eléonore Eugénie de Béthisy de Mézières, younger daughter of Eugène Marie de Béthisy, Marquis de Mézières, and Eléonore Oglethorpe, like her sisters, a loyal and active Jacobite, who was in turn a daughter of Theophilus Oglethorpe, an English soldier and MP.

Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon

Gordon was the son of the 2nd Duke of Gordon and was named after his father's close, Jacobite friend, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Earl of Seaforth

His successor was his son William, who joined the Jacobite standard at Braemar, during the rising of 1715, and then, having raised 3000 men, was present at the battle of Sheriffmuir and was appointed lieutenant-general of the northern counties.

Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715

Whetter, James (1995) "Jacobitism in Cornwall", in: Old Cornwall; Vol.

Monod, Paul Kléber (1989) Jacobitism and the English People, 1688–1788.

Jacques MacDonald

His father, Neil MacEachen, later MacDonald, came from a Jacobite family from Howbeg in South Uist, in the west of Scotland.

James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour

A Jacobite sympathiser, he is best known for his defence of rebels standing trial at Carlisle after the Jacobite risings.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

In 1696 he refused in company with other Tory peers to sign an agreement to support William as their "rightful and lawful king" against Jacobite attempts, and was consequently dismissed from the privy council.

Marquis de Lally-Tollendal

The family of Lally (also O'Lally or O'Mullally) were an Irish family originally from Tuam, County Galway, who distinguished themselves in the service of the Jacobite pretenders and in the French service.

Norbert Roettiers

He was a strong Jacobite and left England about 1695 to attach himself to the Stuart court.

Nymphenburg Palace

To Jacobites, who trace the line of legitimate British monarchy down through the legal heirs of James II of England, the head of the house of Wittelsbach is the legitimate heir of the Stuart claims to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; this claim is not being actively pursued.

Primitive Scottish Rite

According to Robert Ambelain, the Primitive Scottish Rite was practiced by the military Jacobite Lodges, founded by exiled Scottish and Irish Jacobite followers of the deposed Stuart King, James II of England (James VII of Scotland).

Privy Council of Scotland

The council supervised the administration of the law, regulated trade and shipping, took emergency measures against the plague, granted licences to travel, administered oaths of allegiance, banished beggars and Gypsies, dealt with witches, recusants, Covenanters and Jacobites and tackled the problem of lawlessness in the Highlands and the Borders.

Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh (died 1757), was a Jacobite from the Burleigh family of the county of Kinross, Scotland, remembered chiefly for a crime of passion.

Robert Dalzell, 5th Earl of Carnwath

Robert Dalzell, 5th Earl of Carnwath, (1687–1737), known as Sir Robert Dalzell, 3rd Baronet from 1689 until 1702, was a Scottish nobleman and Jacobite supporter during James Stuart, the Old Pretender's, unsuccessful rebellion in 1715 known as the Fifteen or Lord Mar's Revolt.

Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet

The Keiths were Episcopalian and of Jacobite sympathies, so much so that Keith resided with the exiled court of the Pretender, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and there became one of the Pretender's favourites.

The History of Henry Esmond

The novel opens on Henry as a boy – the supposedly illegitimate (and eventually orphaned) son of Thomas, the third Viscount Castlewood, and cousin of the Jacobite fourth viscount, Francis, and his wife, the Lady Castlewood.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Good-natured characters are often modestly loyalist and Anglican, even Hanoverian, while ill-natured characters (Mrs. Western) or only mistaken ones (Partridge) can be Jacobites or (like Squire Western) just anti-Hanoverians.

Theophilus Oglethorpe, Jr.

Like his father, who had been equerry to James II and had gone into exile with him after the Glorious Revolution, Oglethorpe was a Jacobite sympathiser and shortly afterwards fled abroad to join the Old Pretender; his sister, Anne, was rumoured to be the Pretender's mistress.

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally

He was born at Romans-sur-Isère, Dauphiné, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French lady of noble family, from whom the son inherited his titles.

Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald

He later gave evidence in court against the Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who had surrendered the city to the Jacobites.

War of the Quadruple Alliance

It was also in 1719 that the Irish exile, the Duke of Ormonde, organized an expedition with extensive Spanish support to invade Britain and replace King George I with James Stuart, the Jacobite "Old Pretender".