Jacobites

Born into the English gentry class, she was an Anglican and a fervent Tory and Jacobite , who believed, in fact, that these two terms were synonymous.

MCC was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics ) who joined the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. When the head of the Clavering family, a man in...

His great-great-father, Cesare Adelmare , had migrated from Italy to England and become physician to Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I . Charles Caesar, though later a devoted husband, was said at...

MC shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope , Prior , Swift , and Mary Barber , and of the...

JT , as Gordon Daviot, published Claverhouse, a life of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee , who was first the scourge of the Covenanters , and then a Jacobite leader whose heroic...

SLC also writes of topical events in social, political, and religious circles. Though she resolves against repeating gossip, she often does so (generally with names concealed). When she records hearing gossip (for instance, that a...