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JACOBITES (from Lat. Jacobus, James)

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JACOBITES (from See also:Lat. Jacobus, See also:James) , the name given after the revolution of 1688 to the adherents, first of the exiled See also:English See also:king James II., then of his descendants, and after the extinction of the latter in 18o7, of the descendants of See also:Charles I., i.e. of the exiled See also:house of See also:Stuart. The See also:history of the Jacobites, culminating in the risings of 1715 and 1745, is See also:part of the See also:general history of See also:England (q.v.), and especially of See also:Scotland (q.v.), in which See also:country they were comparatively more numerous and more active, while there was also a large number of Jacobites in See also:Ireland. They were recruited largely, but not solely, from among the See also:Roman Catholics, and the Protestants among them were often identical with the Non-Jurors. Owing to a variety of causes Jacobitism began to lose ground after the See also:accession of See also:George I. and the suppression of the revolt of 1715; and the See also:total failure of the rising of 1745 may be said to See also:mark its end as a serious See also:political force. In 1765 See also:Horace See also:Walpole said that "Jacobitism, the concealed See also:mother of the latter (i.e. Toryism), was See also:extinct," but as a sentiment it remained for some See also:time longer, and may even be said to exist to-See also:day. In 1750, during a strike of See also:coal workers at See also:Elswick, James III. was proclaimed king; in 178o certain persons walked out of the Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church at See also:Hexham when George III. was prayed for; and as See also:late as 1784 a Jacobite rising was talked about. See also:Northumberland was thus a Jacobite stronghold; and in See also:Manchester, where in 1777 according to an See also:American observer Jacobitism "is openly professed," a Jacobite See also:rendezvous known as " See also:John See also:Shaw's See also:Club " lasted from 1735 to 1892. See also:North See also:Wales was another Jacobite centre. The " See also:Cycle of the See also:White See also:Rose " —the white rose being the badge of the Stuarts—composed of members of the See also:principal Welsh families around See also:Wrexham, including the See also:Williams-Wynns of Wynnstay, lasted from 17ro until some time between ,85o and 186o. Jacobite traditions also lingered among the See also:great families of the Scottish See also:Highlands; the last See also:person to suffer See also:death as a Jacobite was See also:Archibald See also:Cameron, a son of Cameron of Lochiel, who was executed in 1753.

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Johnson's Jacobite sympathies are well known, and on the death of See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel I., the ex-king of See also:Sardinia, in 1824, See also:Lord See also:Liverpool wrote to See also:Canning saying " there are those who think that the ex-king was the lawful king of Great See also:Britain." Until the accession of King See also:Edward VII. See also:finger-See also:bowls were not placed upon the royal See also:dinner-table, because in former times those who secretly sympathized with the Jacobites were in the See also:habit of drinking to the king over the See also:water. The romantic See also:side of Jacobitism was stimulated by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott's Waverley, and many Jacobite poems were written during the 19th See also:century. The See also:chief collections of Jacobite poems are: Charles See also:Mackay's Jacobite Songs and See also:Ballads of Scotland, 1688-1746, with Appendix of See also:Modern Jacobite Songs (1861) ; G. S. Macquoid's Jacobite Songs and Ballads (1888) ; and English Jacobite Ballads, edited by A. B. See also:Grosart from the See also:Towneley See also:manuscripts (1877). Upon the death of See also:Henry Stuart, See also:Cardinal See also:York, the last of James II.'s descendants, in 1807, the rightful occupant of the See also:British See also:throne according to legitimist principles was to be found among the descendants of Henrietta, daughter of Charles I., who married See also:Philip I., See also:duke of See also:Orleans. Henrietta's daughter, See also:Anne See also:Marie (1669-1728), became the wife of Victor Amadeus II., duke of See also:Savoy, afterwards king of Sardinia; her son was King Charles Emmanuel III., and her See also:grandson Victor Amadeus III. The latter's son, King Victor Emmanuel I., See also:left no sons, and his eldest daughter, Marie See also:Beatrice, married See also:Francis IV., duke of See also:Modena, whose son See also:Ferdinand (d. 1849) left an only daughter, Marie Therese (b. 1849).

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lady, the wife of See also:Prince See also:Louis of See also:Bavaria, was in 1910 the See also:senior member of the Stuart See also:family, and according to the See also:legitimists the rightful See also:sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland. Table showing the See also:succession to the See also:crown of Great Britain and Ireland according to Jacobite principles. Charles I. (1600-1649) Henrietta (1644-1670) = Philip I., duke of Orleans (1640-1701) rousing his country against See also:Napoleon, whom he regarded as a second Philip of Macedon. See E. F. Wflstemann, Friderici Jacobsii laudatio (See also:Gotha, 1848) ; C. See also:Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland; and the appreciative See also:article by C. Regel in Allgemeine deutsche Biographic.

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