Manchester University Press
4 The Scots Jacobite agenda, 1702–10
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Daniel Szechi
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the question of what the Scots Jacobites hoped to achieve by overthrowing the existing order in Scotland in 1708. From 1688 onwards a native Jacobite agenda developed in each kingdom in response to the political, social and economic changes that followed on the Revolution and, too, the developing tensions between the ethnic groups within the British Isles. The original text of the Juncto's 'Scheme' and 'Instrument of Government', though, survived in Scotland, and Colonel Nathaniel Hooke was given another copy in 1707. A future Jacobite king of Scots would have exercised only severely limited powers and in effect been forced into a day-to-day political partnership with Parliament. Earl Marischal, William Keith, brought in a patriotic measure of his own, for Scotland to be represented by separate, Scots envoys in any future peace negotiations, which received strong support from all parties.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the question of what the Scots Jacobites hoped to achieve by overthrowing the existing order in Scotland in 1708. From 1688 onwards a native Jacobite agenda developed in each kingdom in response to the political, social and economic changes that followed on the Revolution and, too, the developing tensions between the ethnic groups within the British Isles. The original text of the Juncto's 'Scheme' and 'Instrument of Government', though, survived in Scotland, and Colonel Nathaniel Hooke was given another copy in 1707. A future Jacobite king of Scots would have exercised only severely limited powers and in effect been forced into a day-to-day political partnership with Parliament. Earl Marischal, William Keith, brought in a patriotic measure of his own, for Scotland to be represented by separate, Scots envoys in any future peace negotiations, which received strong support from all parties.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of illustrations and maps viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations, dates, spelling and punctuation xi
- 1 Britain’s lost revolution and the historians 1
- 2 March 1708 and its aftermath 14
- 3 The Jacobite underground in the early eighteenth century 73
- 4 The Scots Jacobite agenda, 1702–10 109
- 5 The geopolitics of the Enterprise of Scotland 150
- 6 Conclusion 198
- Bibliography 202
- Index 214
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of illustrations and maps viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations, dates, spelling and punctuation xi
- 1 Britain’s lost revolution and the historians 1
- 2 March 1708 and its aftermath 14
- 3 The Jacobite underground in the early eighteenth century 73
- 4 The Scots Jacobite agenda, 1702–10 109
- 5 The geopolitics of the Enterprise of Scotland 150
- 6 Conclusion 198
- Bibliography 202
- Index 214
