Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714-1746 Oates Jonathan
Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714-1746 Oates Jonathan In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite…
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Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714-1746 Oates Jonathan
In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuart claimant. The lords lieutenant organized militia and volunteer forces to support the status quo. This book examines the responses of those loyal to the Hanoverian dynasty, whose efforts have been ignored or disparaged compared to the military perspective or that of the Jacobites.These efforts included those of the clergy who gave loyalist sermons, accompanied the volunteer forces against the Jacobites and even stood up to the Jacobite forces in person.
The press, both national and regional, was uniformly loyal. Official bodies, such as the corporations, parishes, quarter sessions and sheriffs, organized events to celebrate loyalist occasions and dealt with local Jacobite sympathisers. Finally, both the middling and
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