The Leading Facts of English History

that party (S495), in Scotland, with the secret aid of many in England, now rose, in the hope of placing on the throne James Edward

ot the nickname of "Bobbing John." Mar encountered the royal forces at Sheriffmuir, in Perthsir

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nickname of the "Old Pretender," and the son as the "Young Pretender." So far as birth could entitle them to the crow

fight at Sheriffmuir,

of Scotch allies,

surrendered, almost wi

nk and file were sold as slaves to the West India and Virginia plantations (S487). The "Pretender" himself landed in Scotland a few weeks after the defeat of his f

est time that body could sit (SS439, 517), to seven years (since reduced to five years).[2] The object of this change was to do away with

y in power indefinitely, contrary, perhaps, to the political feeling of the country, which might prefer a different set of representatives. Under the Septennial Act the time was extend