![]() ![]() “Anti-unionism – and Scottish independence – was a strong component of support for Jacobitism in Scotland in the early 18th century.” “The later Stuarts were not especially well loved, but the union was even less so,” he says. The Jacobite rebellions were also, says Whatley, a reaction to the union of Scotland and England in 1707. Making James Francis Edward Stuart (the ‘Old Pretender’) king would herald changes to the practice of religion in Scotland.” “What’s more, many Scots had been antagonised by King William’s imposition of Presbyterianism – a more austere form of Protestantism – as the Church of Scotland. “They championed the claim of the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the deposed James II and VII, the man after whom the movement was named. “The Stuarts had reigned in Scotland for centuries, and the Jacobites craved the reinstatement of the Stuart male line,” says Christopher Whatley, professor of Scottish history at the University of Dundee.
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