Young Folks' History of EnglandYonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
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Young Folks' History of England
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
Great Britain -- History -- Juvenile literature
Just when it was too late, and George I. had thoroughly settled into
his kingdom, the Jacobites in the North of England and in Scotland
began to make a stir, and invited James Stuart over to try to gain
the kingdom. The Jacobites used to call him James III., but the Whigs
called him the Pretender; and the Tories used, by way of a middle
course, to call him the Chevalier--the French word for a knight, as
that he certainly was, whether he were king or pretender. A white
rose was the Jacobite mark, and the Whigs still held to the orange
lily and orange ribbon, for the sake of William of Orange.
The Jacobite rising did not come to any good. Two battles were fought
between the king's troops and the Jacobites--one in England and the
other in Scotland--on the very same day. The Scottish one was at
Sheriff-muir, and was so doubtful, that the old Scottish song about
it ran thus--
Some say that we won,
And some say the they won,
Some say that none won
At a', man;
But of one thing I'm sure,
That at Sheriff-muir
A battle there was,
Which I saw, man.
And we ran, and they ran,
And they ran, and we ran,
And we ran, and they ran--
Awa, man.
The English one was at Preston, and in it the Jacobites were all
defeated and made prisoners; so that when their friend the Chevalier
landed in Scotland, he found that nothing could be done, and had to
go back again to Italy, where he generally lived, under the Pope's
protection; and where he married a Polish princess and had two sons,
whom he named Charles Edward and Henry.
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