Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715
The Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715 was an unsuccessful Jacobite attempt at launching a rebellion against the Hanoverian regime which took place in the county of Cornwall.
St Columb town square. The site of the proclamation in Cornwall
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart, nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs and the King over the 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 July 1688 until, just months after his birth, his Catholic father was deposed and exiled in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II's Protestant elder daughter Mary II and her husband William III became co-monarchs. The Bill of Rights 1689 and Act of Settlement 1701 excluded Catholics such as James from the English and British thrones.
Portrait from the studio of Alexis Simon Belle, c. 1712
James Francis Edward as Prince of Wales, after a painting by Nicolas de Largillière
James Francis Edward, about 1703, portrait in the Royal Collection attributed to Alexis Simon Belle
The Old Pretender lands in Scotland after Sheriffmuir. An 18th-century engraving.