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
9 - To a Fair Meeting on the Green: The Order of Toboso and Jacobite Fraternalism, 1726–c. 1739
- 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
On 12 May 1726, the Reverend Ezekiel Hamilton wrote a letter from Madrid to John Hay, Earl of Inverness in Rome. Hamilton principally wanted ‘to send … the cypher I had so long promised’. Evidently Hamilton was a valued Jaco-bite cryptographer. However, fortunately for historians, Hamilton's explanation regarding the cypher is written in plain English:
This putts me in mind of another view I had in compiling this cypher, and that is to make it chiefly a military one, and calculated as much as possible for a fair meeting on the green (a health I have often drank but a thing I long extremely to see). For I shou'd have been altogether unworthy of the military Title His Majesty has been pleas'd to Honour me with, if I had not perfected the cypher on this Head; and as the aforesaid Meeting at Home is the end of all negotiations and correspondence abroad,any cypher that is not contriv'd chiefly for an Invasion is in my Humble opinion Literally a cypher and can never make a significant Figure.
Hamilton goes on to reference the Scottish Ballads of ‘Christ's Kirk on the Green’ and ‘Habby Simpson’, as well as stressing to Hay that ‘I assure your Lordship I have no inclination to build castles in Spain’.
This source sheds light on the origins of the Order of Toboso-a Jacobite fraternity named in honour of Dulcinea del Toboso, the imaginary amour of Don Quixote – in which Hamilton played a pivotal role.
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- Living with Jacobitism, 1690–1788The Three Kingdoms and Beyond, pp. 125 - 138Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014