Some Jacobites believed that King James II should have been canonised like St James because of his devout Catholic faith. Others believed that King Charles should also be canonised as 'the execution of a king was a greater sin than the Crucifixion, since Christ had not actually been anointed, and that he was simply the uncrowned King of the Jews'.
R. Pound, 'A shrine to the Stuart dynasty: Lord Burlington and Jacobite symbolism at Chiswick House', Royal Stuart Journal 9 (2018), 34
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