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Helpful Jacobite Research Articles & Links
The Drawn Sword: The MacBean Stuart and Jacobite Collection at the University of Aberdeen
The Jacobite Cess Roll for the County of Aberdeen in 1715
History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1745-6
The Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen 1650-1784
The Jacobitic Rebellions 1689-1745
Jacobitism and Tory Politics, 1710-14
Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment
The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland: The True Story of the Royal House of Stewart
Jacobite Spy Wars: Moles, Rogues and Treachery
"The Jacobite story was one of history's longest running spy sagas. Adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Jacobites sought the restoration of James II. In Jacobite Spy War, Douglas untangles the details of this complicated intelligence war that involved people from Sussex smugglers to Highland clansmen. Across Europe "moles" dug for secrets at every court--kings, ambassadors, soldiers, cardinals, and royal mistresses all participated. Douglas exposes the intricacies of this war, the incredible range of its influence, and the defeating consequences."The Jacobites of Angus, 1689-1746: In Two Parts
Highland Jacobites 1745
"In this book, the fourth such effort by Mrs. McDonnell or her husband, David Dobson, concerning the Jacobites, the author rescues from oblivion the achievements of the rank and file of the Highland Jacobite army, part of the cannon-fodder of the ill-fated campaign of 1745-46. According to Mrs. McDonnell, "In the Highlands of Scotland, where the Clan system operated and the tradition of unquestioning loyalty to the Clan Chief was still strong, raising and holding men in support of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's bid to wrest the throne of Britain from the House of Hanover was not as troublesome as in the rest of the country." Lacking the promised support of the French government and English Jacobites, however, the Highlanders paid dearly for their loyalty to the Stuarts. In fact, the failure of the Jacobite Rebellion signaled the death spiral of the Clan system and a large-scale emigration to North America."In the preparation of this volume, Mrs. McDonnell was able to profit from the Hanoverian government's intention to gather as much information as possible on the rebels, about whom court records, jail records, and transportation orders abound today. Drawing on records in the Public Record Office in London and the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh, among others, she has here assembled an alphabetical register of 1,000 Highland Jacobites, giving, invariably, each person's name, rank, date(s) of service, and unit (if military), and frequently the subject's date and place of imprisonment, date and place of transportation, name of his vessel, and the place of arrival in the Americas. While these expatriates were carried to a variety of places in the New World, a disproportionate number of the Highland Jacobites are known to have disembarked in Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, and other places in the West Indies."
Jacobites of Lowland Scotland, England, Ireland, France, and Spain (1745)
"The Jacobites were followers of the House of Stuart who, in 1715, 1719, and, in this case, 1745, attempted to regain the throne of Great Britain from the ruling House of Hanover. Jacobites of Lowland Scotland, England, Ireland, France, and Spain 1745 represents then fifth effort by Mrs. McDonnell or her husband, David Dobson, to preserve and make accessible the identities of the participants in the Jacobite rebellions. As the author explains in her informative Introduction, "The rebellion of 1745 is almost always referred to as if [it were] a particularly Highland affair. While the emphasis of interest has concentrated on the Highland Jacobites, there was a significant minority from south of the Highland line. . . . In the Scottish Lowlands . . . recruits came from the capital and its surrounds, forming Roy Stuarts Edinburgh Regiment. The Manchester Regiment comprised men recruited from the north of England. It marched from Manchester to Derby, and back to Carlisle, where it formed part of the unfortunate garrison which surrendered to Cumberland. . . . The support offered by the Catholic French Court to the Jacobite cause came about through a traditional rivalry between England and France . . . . These units in the pay of France included a substantial number of volunteers from Irish and Scottish regiments. . . ."In the preparation of this volume Mrs. McDonnell examined records in the Scottish Record Office, National Archives of Scotland, and the Scottish History Society, as well as the Public Record Office in London. The end result of her labors is the alphabetical register of 1,500 Lowland, English, Irish, French, and a handful of Spanish Jacobites assembled for this volume. In the overwhelming number of cases, the descriptions state the Jacobite's name, rank, and date(s) of service and unit (if military), and, frequently, the subject's date and place of imprisonment, date and place of transportation, name of his vessel, and the place of arrival in the Americas. In conclusion, thanks to Mr. Reilly's prodigious effort, no one who has ever operated in the dark with respect to the Griffith's need do so again, while anyone who consults Richard Griffith and His Valuations of Ireland is likely to come away with a far greater number of trails to follow among Irish records than he/she had ever anticipated."
Jacobites in Russia, 1715-1750
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans
The Stuart Court in Exile and the Jacobites
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