How To Use Jacobite In A Sentence
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Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
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Later a refuge for Catholic priests in times of terror the Stuarts of Traquair supported Mary Queen of Scots and the Jacobite cause without counting the cost.
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Two hundred and fifty years ago it was numbered tickets to Westminster Hall that were in demand: two Jacobite earls and a lord were on trial there.
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Johnson at this period, the Latin poems which he contributed in praise of Cave, and of Cave's friends, or the Jacobite squibs by which he relieved his anti-ministerialist feelings.
Samuel Johnson
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As part of the pacification of the Highlands after the collapse of the Jacobite rising of 1689-90 a royal order required all clan chieftains to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary.
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Alan in high good humour at the furthering of his schemes, and I in bitter dudgeon at being called a Jacobite and treated like a child.
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
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Lochiel, one of the Jacobite commanders, brought his clansmen back to the field the next day to show them the product of their labours, and his men were horrified at what they had done in the heat of battle.
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The increasing vagueness of his promises to the Jacobites seems to show that, as time went on, he became convinced that the Hanoverian was the winning cause.
Daniel Defoe
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And so he became a Tory, as they ca’ it, which we now ca’ Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.
Redgauntlet
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Since the main part of the Jacobite army never engaged the enemy, losses were relatively light.
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The court party retorted that the country party members were either secret Jacobites or self-seeking careerists, making trouble for their own ends.
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Give me a highwayman and I was full to the brim; a Jacobite would do, but the highwayman was my favourite dish.
Memories and Portraits
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Cope marched north from Stirling to intercept the Jacobite forces but found them entrenched on the Corrieyairack pass in an impregnable position and diverted instead to Inverness.
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And so he became a Tory, as they ca it, which we now ca Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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This year, we made the journey to Mallaig by car, enjoying the beautiful scenery, and even catching a glimpse of the Jacobite train as she puffed her way north.
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Their preachers were both papists and Puritans, Jacobites and republicans; they ravished wives or influenced them to give up all fleshly pleasures; they coveted other men's goods or denied them the use of worldly possessions.
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Dundee and Balcarres; while Dundee proposed to call a Jacobite convention in Stirling.
A Short History of Scotland
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The Jacobites managed an orderly retreat and William's forces were in no condition to pursue.
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So the Jacobite army entered London in triumph.
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[113] The commander of the faithful rejected with firmness the idea of pillage, and directed his lieutenant to reserve the wealth and revenue of Alexandria for the public service and the propagation of the faith: the inhabitants were numbered; a tribute was imposed, the zeal and resentment of the Jacobites were curbed, and the Melchites who submitted to the Arabian yoke were indulged in the obscure but tranquil exercise of their worship.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
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The good folks, since they have read the novels, have become Jacobites; and, because all the Jacobs were Papists, the good folks must become Papists also, or, at least, papistically inclined.
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
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Edinburgh had fallen unopposed to the Jacobites, though the castle remained in Hanoverian hands.
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a Tory, as they ca 'it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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In his bonnet the champion sports a cockade neither of Jacobite white nor of Hanoverian black.
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A battle took place on 30 April, 1690, in which a Jacobite force was routed on the low ground (haughs) at Cromdale in Morayshire by government forces.
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With the arrival of the Norsemen wooden galleys and birlinns became the common transport and these stayed in use until the Jacobite rebellion.
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Hanoverian artillery cut the Jacobite troops to pieces, and Culloden was a slaughter.
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I am, as you know, a piece of that old-fashioned thing called a Jacobite; but I am so in sentiment and feeling only; for a more loyal subject never joined in prayers, for the health and wealth of George the Fourth, whom God long preserve!
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
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“I tauld ye that ye would find nae Jacobites here.”
Rob Roy
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On 3 October 1745 Drummond was forced to suspend payments - allegedly because he supported the Jacobite rebellion.
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On 3 October 1745 Drummond was forced to suspend payments - allegedly because he supported the Jacobite rebellion.
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But baronial powers were largely abolished after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
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The Jacobite forces were well entrenched and kept up a steady bombardment of the city, which shredded the defences inside the walls.
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They had taken part in a Jacobite plot against William III.
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They were staunch Jacobites, and even after Culloden they continued to bear arms and wear the white cockade.
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Their blood up, the Jacobites, most of them armed with small round shields, known as targes, and double-edged broadswords, hurtled down the slope.
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Hugh Speke and Aaron Smith, men to whom a hunt after a Jacobite was the most exciting of all sports.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
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The Jacobites stood the fire for some time before charging, being decimated by grape and musket shot.
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They had taken part in a Jacobite plot against William III.
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[The Jacobite strain of "To daunton me," must have been in the mind of the poet when he wrote this pithy lyric for the Museum.]
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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On Day Three, the Jacobites could elect to scale the walls of the castle in an escalade complete with purpose built ladders for the game or settle down into a siege of the castle.
Archive 2008-07-01
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I am, as you know, a piece of that old-fashioned thing called a Jacobite; but I am so in sentiment and feeling only, for a more loyal subject never joined in prayers for the health and wealth of George the Fourth, whom God long preserve!
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
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An immersion theatre using the latest special effects will give visitors an idea of the bloody carnage that the relentless cannonade of grapeshot inflicted on the Jacobite lines.
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Archaeologists have found proof of the first ever use on British soil of a terrifying new weapon at the Battle of Killiecrankie, at which 2,500 Jacobites annihilated a force of 4,000 redcoats.
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Both on its advance and retreat, Jacobites fought skirmishes at Clifton, in the Eden valley.
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I must say that an alternative history in which the two parties compromise on a not-too-bad health care plan strikes me as rather less likely than one where Bonnie Prince Charlie conquers a Jacobite kingdom in Virginia.
Economics
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The word "send" in "send Him victorious" is a relic of the Jacobite adaptation of the original anthem.
The History and Significance of The National Anthem
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[A bothy is a cottage or hut where labouring servants are lodged, and is sometimes built of wood, as we read in the _Jacobite Relics_, ii.
Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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It is needless to describe in detail the literary task-work done by Johnson at this period, the Latin poems which he contributed in praise of Cave, and of Cave's friends, or the Jacobite squibs by which he relieved his anti-ministerialist feelings.
Samuel Johnson
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(Hillaire Belloc noted once that, while Jacobite songs were often heard in English homes, he had been warned by the gendarmerie for intoning “Vexilla regis” on a beach in Brittany.)
History
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The governor of the garrison was suspected of being a Jacobite traitor; an allegation he vehemently denied.
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Under the pa - triarch and the maphrian, one hundred and fifty archbifliops and bifbops have been counted in the different ages of the Jacobite church; but the order of the hierarchy is relaxed or ditfolved, and the greater part of their diocefes is confined to the neighbourhood of the Euphrates and the Tigris.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Of course, the problem being that people like that lady in the Confederate tee shirt tend to be ignorant yahoos who wouldn’t know a Jacobite from a Jacobin. joe from Lowell says:
Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
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Most had, understandably assumed that Jacobite glass objects had solid provenances and that those who had written on the subject had done so after having done their research.
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The Jacobite story was one of history's longest running spy sagas.
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And so he became a Tory, as they ca 'it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.
Redgauntlet
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In 1715, Jacobite rebels were defeated at the battle of Preston.
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His new book, Walking through Scotland's History, examines pedestrianism from Roman Legions to travelling folk, via missionaries and Jacobites.
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In particular, their Jacobite Ale packs a bit of a wallop.
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Meanwhile Claverhouse had raised a Jacobite force of 2,000 Highland clansmen.
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Unionists would praise the prescience of the men of 1707, Jacobites and nationalists would execrate them, but in itself such a union was probably no more momentous than its architects were moral.
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Beatrix and her brother Frank, now the fifth viscount, are ardent Jacobites, and Esmond becomes involved with them in a plot to restore James Edward Stuart, the old pretender, to the throne on the death of Queen Anne.
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Jacobite risings took place in 1715 and 1745, though both were defeated.
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‘Ye may swear that,’ replied the provost — ‘as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi’ for all his brags and his clavers.
Redgauntlet
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The first of these Jacobite bishops (they did not take the title patriarch) of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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In Jacobite times, targes were the highlanders' main means of defence in battle.
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We don't know for sure but recent evidence points to a Jacobite safe house in Stirling.
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Since the main part of the Jacobite army never engaged the enemy, losses were relatively light.
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The commander of the faithful rejected with firmness the idea of pillage, and directed his lieutenant to reserve the wealth and revenue of Alexandria for the public service and the propagation of the faith: the inhabitants were numbered; a tribute was imposed, the zeal and resentment of the Jacobites were curbed, and the Melchites who submitted to the Arabian yoke were indulged in the obscure but tranquil exercise of their worship.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
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NOTE: When George I imported his seraglio of impoverished gentlewomen from Germany, he provided the Jacobite songwriters with material for some of their most ribald verses.
Great Scots
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The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth.
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Jacobite pamphlets often reflected an awareness of the mixed nature of their support.
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(Hillaire Belloc noted once that, while Jacobite songs were often heard in English homes, he had been warned by the gendarmerie for intoning “Vexilla regis” on a beach in Brittany.)
History
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It's also named for the deposed Catholic king of Great Britain, James II and VII, who inspired what became known as the Jacobite movement.
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