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Jacobite meaning
A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. | A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. | A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
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The Jacobite faction of the Malankara Church has said that the court verdict directing Ernakulam District Collector S. Suhas to take over the historic Mulanthuruthy Jacobite Church was “unfortunate”.
About half of the Episcopalians supporting the Jacobite cause came from the Lowlands, but this was obscured in the risings by their tendency to wear Highland dress as a type of Jacobite uniform.
Thursday February 9, starting at 4.30pm, with speakers Ali Smith, West Group; Freda Newton, Jacobite Cruises; Alasdair Ferguson, Ferguson Transport and Shipping; Kirsty Macpherson, Brodies LLP; and Angus MacDonald.
Author SG MacLean makes her return to the festival to talk about her Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, which was Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Year 2023.
Professor Pollard holding a Brown Bess musket ball fire into Jacobite charge.
St Marks was one of the first Episcopal churches to be built in the Edinburgh Diocese after the repressions of the Penal Laws that followed the Jacobite risings in the 18th century.
West Coast Railways allowed the famous wizarding train to use the route of The Jacobite train, including passing over the scenic famous Glenfinnan viaduct.
In the plush eatery there is a Jacobite-style private room that is 'ideal for birthdays' according to the restaurant website.
On his death, any hope that the Jacobite cause had of succeeding was extinguished.
St Mary’s Church is at the centre of a tussle between followers of the Kerala Malankara Orthodox Church and the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church.
Militarily, the Treaty of Limerick, the peace treaty agreed upon by both sides, gave the choice to Jacobite soldiers to form Irish regiments and fight under James II in France and other European armies, to join the Williamite army, or to go home.
Theophilus of the Jacobite Syrian Church admits this is wrong.
This book was penned during the Second World War, and in it she draws parallels between the Scotland of 1947 and that of 1747, when the book is set and the aftermath of the Jacobite Risings.
A considerable number of islandmen "came out" in support of the Jacobite Earl of Mar in the "15" although the response to the 1745 rising was muted.
After Charles held court at Holyrood Palace for five weeks he overcame Lord George Murray 's caution by declaring that he had Tory assurances of an English rising and the Jacobite army set for England.
After the Restoration of 1660, the county was a centre for Roman Catholicism in England, as well as a focus of Jacobite support.
Among the political entities sharing a future human-settled galaxy depicted by A. Bertram Chandler is "The Jacobite Kingdom of Waverly".
Another extravagant scheme of Alberoni's was the plotted restoration of the Stuarts to the British throne in two Jacobite expeditions to Scotland in the spring of 1719.
By the end of August 1745, they had landed Charles in Scotland and he had started issuing calls for troops loyal to the Jacobite cause of placing him on the throne.
By then, many Jacobite soldiers had dispersed in search of food, while others were asleep in ditches and outbuildings.