JACOBITES (from Lat. Jacobus, James)

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JACOBITES (from Lat. Jacobus, James) , the name given after the revolution of 1688 to the adherents, first of the exiled English king James II., then of his descendants, and after the extinction of the latter in 18o7, of the descendants of Charles I., i.e. of the exiled

house

of Stuart.
The history of the Jacobites, culminating in the risings of 1715 and 1745, is part of the general history of England (q.v.), and especially of Scotland (q.v.), in which country they were comparatively more numerous and more active, while there was also a large number of Jacobites in Ireland. They were recruited largely, but not solely, from among the 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 accession of George I. and the suppression of the revolt of 1715; and the total failure of the rising of 1745 may be said to mark its end as a serious political force. In 1765

Horace

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Walpole said that "Jacobitism, the concealed mother of the latter (i.e. Toryism), was extinct," but as a sentiment it remained for some time longer, and may even be said to exist to-day. In 1750, during a strike of coal workers at Elswick, James III. was proclaimed king; in 178o certain persons walked out of the Roman Catholic Church at Hexham when George III. was prayed for; and as

late

LATE

as 1784 a Jacobite rising was talked about. Northumberland was thus a Jacobite stronghold; and in Manchester, where in 1777 according to an American observer Jacobitism "is openly professed," a Jacobite rendezvous known as " John Shaw's Club " lasted from 1735 to 1892. North Wales was another Jacobite centre. The " Cycle of the White Rose " the white rose being the badge of the Stuartscomposed of members of the principal Welsh families around Wrexham, including the Williams-Wynns of Wynnstay, lasted from 17ro until some time between ,85o and 186o. Jacobite traditions also lingered among the great families of the Scottish Highlands; the last person to suffer death as a Jacobite was Archibald Cameron, a son of Cameron of Lochiel, who was executed in 1753. Dr Johnson's Jacobite sympathies are well known, and on the death of

Victor

Emmanuel I., the ex-king of Sardinia, in 1824, Lord Liverpool wrote to Canning saying " there are those who think that the ex-king was the lawful king of Great Britain." Until the accession of King Edward VII.

finger

FINGER

-bowls were not placed upon the royal dinner-table, because in former times those who secretly sympathized with the Jacobites were in the habit of drinking to the king over the water. The romantic side of Jacobitism was stimulated by Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, and many Jacobite poems were written during the 19th century.
The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

collections of Jacobite poems are: Charles Mackay's Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland, 1688-1746, with Appendix of Modern Jacobite Songs (1861) ; G. S. Macquoid's Jacobite Songs and Ballads (1888) ; and English Jacobite Ballads, edited by A. B. Grosart from the Towneley manuscripts (1877).
Upon the death of Henry Stuart, Cardinal

York

, the last of James II.'s descendants, in 1807, the rightful occupant of the British throne according to legitimist principles was to be found among the descendants of Henrietta, daughter of Charles I., who married Philip I., duke of Orleans. Henrietta's daughter, Anne Marie (1669-1728), became the wife of

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Amadeus II., duke of Savoy, afterwards king of Sardinia; her son was King Charles Emmanuel III., and her grandson Victor Amadeus III. The latter's son, King Victor Emmanuel I., left no sons, and his eldest daughter, Marie Beatrice, married Francis IV., duke of Modena,
whose son Ferdinand (d. 1849) left an only daughter, Marie Therese (b. 1849). This lady, the wife of Prince Louis of Bavaria, was in 1910 the senior member of the Stuart family, and according to the legitimists the rightful sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland.
Table showing the succession to the 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 Napoleon, whom he regarded as a second Philip of Macedon.
See E. F. Wflstemann, Friderici Jacobsii laudatio (Gotha, 1848) ; C. Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland; and the appreciative article by C. Regel in Allgemeine deutsche Biographic.

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