Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Preface: Breandán Ó Buachalla, A Tribute
- Introduction: Living with Jacobitism
- 1 The First Jacobite and the Scottish Parliament
- 2 The Scottish Jacobite Community at Saint-Germain after the Departure of the Stuart Court
- 3 Liturgy: The Sacramental Soul of Jacobitism
- 4 ‘Zealous in the Defence of the Protestant Religion and Liberty’: The Making of Whig Scotland, c. 1688–c. 1746
- 5 Jonathan Swift's Memoirs of a Jacobite
- 6 ‘Female Rebels’: The Female Figure in Anti-Jacobite Propaganda
- 7 Commerce and the Jacobite Court: Scottish Migrants in France,1688–1718
- 8 Ultramontane Ultras: The Intellectual Character of Irish Students at the University of Paris
- 9 To a Fair Meeting on the Green: The Order of Toboso and Jacobite Fraternalism, 1726–c. 1739
- 10 English and Scottish Jacobite Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome
- 11 Polite War: Material Culture of the Jacobite Era, 1688–1760
- 12 Robert Adam: ‘My Mother's Dear British Boy’
- 13 From Jacobite to Jacobin: Robert Watson's Life in Opposition
- 14 Robert Louis Stevenson's ‘The Young Chevalier’: Unimagined Space
- Notes
- Index
1 - The First Jacobite and the Scottish Parliament
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Preface: Breandán Ó Buachalla, A Tribute
- Introduction: Living with Jacobitism
- 1 The First Jacobite and the Scottish Parliament
- 2 The Scottish Jacobite Community at Saint-Germain after the Departure of the Stuart Court
- 3 Liturgy: The Sacramental Soul of Jacobitism
- 4 ‘Zealous in the Defence of the Protestant Religion and Liberty’: The Making of Whig Scotland, c. 1688–c. 1746
- 5 Jonathan Swift's Memoirs of a Jacobite
- 6 ‘Female Rebels’: The Female Figure in Anti-Jacobite Propaganda
- 7 Commerce and the Jacobite Court: Scottish Migrants in France,1688–1718
- 8 Ultramontane Ultras: The Intellectual Character of Irish Students at the University of Paris
- 9 To a Fair Meeting on the Green: The Order of Toboso and Jacobite Fraternalism, 1726–c. 1739
- 10 English and Scottish Jacobite Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome
- 11 Polite War: Material Culture of the Jacobite Era, 1688–1760
- 12 Robert Adam: ‘My Mother's Dear British Boy’
- 13 From Jacobite to Jacobin: Robert Watson's Life in Opposition
- 14 Robert Louis Stevenson's ‘The Young Chevalier’: Unimagined Space
- Notes
- Index
Summary
James II and VII is one of those historical figures who has a contested reputation, one that brings forth exaggeration and polarization. For contemporaries this is seen in contrasting reflections on the political aptitude of the last monarch of the British Isles to be removed by revolution. James was, according to the Benedictine Joseph Johnston, ‘the Greatest Politician … mighty, carfull and laborious in all his affaires’ – ‘never was there such a prince in England these hundred years to be compared to him’. Meanwhile in ‘The Snare’, an anonymous rhymed verse from the late 1680s that emphasizes political weakness, James and the ghost of his elder brother are imagined to be in conversation, when Charles warns:
Brother, when I your name and place did bear
I sought the peoples love before their fear
And by that means both fear and love I gott
From the richer min to the ruffel coat
And now you find what I have oft declar'd
The vulgar must be loved or they'll be feared
They'll suffer long and much, but once enraged
Devouring flames more easy are asuag'd
…
I know it suits not with your haughty mind
To stoop to any thing of humane kind
But patience upon force has oft been known
To be endured, tho coveted by none
You see, while others run you prepare
Your self in headlong fall into the snare
In historiography the passage to that snare has had many strands or narratives.
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- Living with Jacobitism, 1690–1788The Three Kingdoms and Beyond, pp. 11 - 26Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014