The Jacobite Activities in South and West England in the summer of 1715

Charles Petrie

doi:10.2307/3678604

The Jacobite Activities in South and West England in the summer of 1715

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Charles Petrie

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It is now generally admitted that of the two principal Jacobite risings, namely the Fifteen and the Forty-Five, the former, although it never came so near to success as the latter, was infinitely better conceived. Yet those who have not studied it in any detail cannot but be astonished at the alarm which it caused the Government of the day. Mar was a far more contemptible commander than Prince Charles Edward or Lord George Murray, while, on the other side, Argyll was greatly superior to the luckless Cope. As for the English Jacobites, the distinction between their behaviour in 1715 and 1745 seems to have been without a difference, for if a few of them did take up arms on the earlier occasion their intervention had no appreciable effect. In these circumstances it is only natural that the question should be asked what justification there is for the statement that the Fifteen was so much more dangerous to the new dynasty than the Forty-Five. The answer lies in the Jacobite activities in the South and West of England during the twelve months that followed the death of Anne, and, in view of their importance, it is surely no exaggeration to say that they have not hitherto received the attention which they deserve.

Type: Research Article
Information: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 18 , December 1935 , pp. 85 - 106

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3678604 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1935

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^{page 104 note 3} Ibid., vol. i, p. 444.

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