The Secretary of State was one of the senior ministers of the Jacobite court in exile following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Jacobite monarchs in-exile...

Secretary of State (Jacobite) Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Secretary of State for Wales Duke of Lennox in the peerage of Scotland MP for Forfar...

dimension; several European powers sponsored the Jacobites as an extension of larger conflicts, while many Jacobite exiles served in foreign armies. In addition...

The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place...

Earl of Dunbar (c. 1690–1770) was a Scottish Tory politician who became a Jacobite agent and courtier. He served as the Jacobite Secretary of State in exile...

The Jacobite rising of 1715 (Scottish Gaelic: Bliadhna Sheumais [ˈpliən̪ˠə ˈheːmɪʃ]; or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Edward Stuart (the Old...

served as Secretary of State for Scotland, the Northern Department and the Southern Department, before acting as Jacobite Secretary of State and chief...

private secretary, being chiefly responsible for co-ordinating intelligence reports for the Jacobite cause. Edgar was involved in much of the Jacobite correspondence...

Irish Jacobite soldier and diplomat who served in the Irish Brigade of the French Army during the War of the Spanish Succession, rising to the rank of colonel...

English Jacobite. From 1713 to 1715 he was the Jacobite Secretary of State in Paris, appointed by James Stuart to replace the long-serving Earl of Middleton...

of Mar and 1st Duke of Mar, KT (1675 – May 1732), was a prominent Scottish nobleman and a key figure in the Jacobite movement. He held the title of the...

The Jacobite peerage includes those peerages created by James II and VII, and the subsequent Jacobite pretenders, after James's deposition from the thrones...

the Jacobite chiefs, with terms varying based on events in Ireland and Scotland. In March 1690, Secretary of State Lord Stair offered them a total of £12...

Revolution. In exile, Melfort became the first Jacobite Secretary of State but his unpopularity with other Jacobites led to his resignation in 1694. He served...

of Newton (died 3 January 1773), referred to as the Earl of Alford in Jacobite circles, was a Scottish Jacobite agent and minister who was Secretary of...

English Jacobite, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland in the 1680s and Secretary of State to James II in exile. Ellis was the second son of John Ellis...

John Hay of Cromlix (1691–1740) was the Jacobite Duke of Inverness and a courtier and army officer to King James VIII & III (known as the "Old Pretender")...

Prestonpans, in East Lothian, the first significant engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Jacobite forces, led by the Stuart exile Charles Edward Stuart,...

Water by Jacobites, was the son of King James VII and II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales from...

II of England, Scotland and Ireland in early 1696. One of a series of plots by Jacobites to reverse the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689, the plot of 1696...

1714 of his mother, Sophia, and his second cousin Anne, Queen of Great Britain. Jacobites attempted, but failed, to depose George and replace him with...

George to the Jacobite army under threat of mining. 8 April – Jacobite rising: Jacobite supporters sack Cullen House. 16 April – the Battle of Culloden, the...

Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Murrays also largely supported the Jacobite House of Stuart during the Jacobite risings...

December 1713 – 7 March 1788) was the third Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford. Caryll was the eldest son of the Honourable John Caryll (28 December 1687...

Scottish Jacobite. He was Personal Secretary to Bonnie Prince Charlie during his exile in Rome. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...

leading Jacobites. This resulted in Charles landing by ship on the west coast of Scotland, leading to the Jacobite rising of 1745. The Jacobite forces...

people were Jacobites and supported James II due to his 1687 Declaration of Indulgence or, as it is also known, the Declaration for the Liberty of Conscience...

John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William. Because his horse had stumbled into a mole's burrow, many Jacobites toasted "the little...

series of Jacobite uprisings sought to remove the Protestant House of Hanover from the throne and restore the Catholic House of Stuart. The Jacobites were...

The treasure of Loch Arkaig, sometimes known as the Jacobite gold, was a large amount of specie provided by Spain to finance the Jacobite rising in Scotland...