The Stuart Court in Exile and the Jacobites

Eveline Cruickshanks

• Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
• Edition: 1
• Year: 1995
• Topic: Geschichte
• Print ISBN:
  9781852851194
• Subtopic: Weltgeschichte
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826426451

In recent years Jacobitism has become a subject of growing interst to historians amid academic controversy over various aspects of the subject. The least-known phase of Jacobitism, although in many ways the most important, is the period 1689 to 1718, when the Stuart court in exile was at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the residence of the kings of France until Louis XIV built Versailles. This collection of essays illuminates the early development of Jacobitism, placing the movement in a coherent historical context. The volume includes an introduction by Edward Corp on the Stuart court and an essay by Eveline Cruickshanks on the importance of Jacobitism in Britain and its links with the exiled court. Other essays discuss Jacobite ideology and the Jacobite press; the internal workings and external relations of the exiled court; the abortive invasion of England in 1692; and Jacobite exiles -- comparable in numbers and influence to the Hugeunots in England -- in France.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Attempts to Restore the Stuarts, 1689-96
• 2 Jacobites in Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• 3 Sir James Montgomerie of Skelmorlie
• 4 The Abortive Invasion of 1692
• 5 John, First Lord Caryll of Durford, and the Caryll Papers
• 6 The Innes Brothers and the Scots College, Paris
• 7 Roger North, Historian and Attorney-General to Queen Mary of Modena
• 8 Jacobite Ideology in Scotland and at Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• 9 The Jacobite Press and English Censorship, 1689-95
• 10 Toby Bourke, Ambassador of James III at the Court of Philip V, 1705-13
• Contributors
• Index