Charles Leslie (nonjuror)
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Charles Leslie was a former Church of Ireland priest who became a leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. One of a small number of Irish Protestants to actively support the S
Castle Leslie, the family estate in Glaslough
Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1638–1709); Charles Leslie's first patron
Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury described Leslie as "the violentest Jacobite" active in England
Henry Sacheverell; originally a close ally, Leslie's quarrel with him and other Tories eventually led to his exile in 1711
Jacobite rising of 1715
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The Jacobite rising of 1715 was an attempt by the exiled James Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the Stuarts.
The Battle of Sheriffmuir, John Wootton
James Francis Edward Stuart, excluded from the Succession by the Bill of Rights 1689
John Erskine, Earl of Mar
The Duke of Argyll, government commander in Scotland