It is evident that the acquaintance which such candidates had with English history was limited: but one would think it safe to ask pupil-teachers, aged 18-20, or assistant teachers, aged 20-30, about the Young Pretender. These were the results of rash confidence on the part of an optimist examiner: Q. Who was the Young Pretender? A. (1) The son of Oliver Cromwell. (2) ... also known as William Pitt. (3) The son of Edward VI the old Pretender. So called because he pretended to be the little Earl of Warwick. Some people believed is story but more than half the people disbelieved him. He was tried and executed. (4) Warren Hastings was known as the Old Pretender. The Duchess of Burgundy helped him. (5) ... was Prince Charles Edward who claimed to be one of the little Princes murdered in the Tower. He was found to be a deceiver, and was put into the king’s kitchen to work. (6) The son of the old Pretender William Pitt, who was a claimant to the throne in George 3’s time. He was one of the greatest statesmen that ever lived. He was created Earl of Orford. (7) [He] was quite harmless as may be seen from the way in which he suffered himself to be hid by the maid in Scotland. Again the examiner might suppose that all students of English history had some knowledge of the Jacobite movements of 1715 and 1745; but the following would open his eyes: (1) Jacobites were originally followers of Jacob who went about in various parts of the country for preaching purposes. (2) Jacobite was the name given to the followers of Jackade. Jackade was a person who pretended to be Duke of York. he marched through London at the head of 6000 men: he went to Ireland and tried to deceive them his followers were called Jacobites and Jacobin was the name given to his government. (The two next may need a note: they refer to the Rebecca Riots in Wales, blended with Jacob, son of Rebekah. I think Rebekah had no daughter.) (3) They called themselves Jacobites from a passage in Scripture about Jacob which passage they considered applicable to their own case. Their object was to do away with the tolls at turn-pike gates and they went to the root of the matter and destroyed the gates themselves. (4) The Jacobites from the word Jacabus means James. The people of this rebellion dressed themselves in a very odd fashion their dress being like Rebeckah’s daughter of old. They were however subdued. A friend brilliantly suggests that Jonadab, the son of Rechab, and the Rechabites have been blended with Jacob, the Jacobites, Rebekah, and Rebecca. I gratefully agree. There were some candidates to whom the politics of George III.’s reign were by no means clear: Q. What effect had the French Revolution on Pitt, Fox, and Burke?