Showing posts with label Jacobitism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacobitism. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

The Cardinal referred to George III as the Elector of Hanover.

Till his dying day, the Cardinal [Henry Benedict Stuart] referred, with a cold smile, to George III as the Elector of Hanover.

J. Lees-Milne, The last Stuarts (1983), 144

Sunday, 14 September 2025

My dear, I hope you are a Jacobite

That pillar of Toryism Samuel Johnson, in a benign and paternal mood, apropos of nothing took his host's niece's hand and said to her, 'My dear, I hope you are a Jacobite.' The uncle with some warmth asked his guest what he meant by such a question. 'Why, sir,' said the doctor, 'I meant no offence to your niece; I meant her a great compliment. A Jacobite, sir, believes in the divine right of kings. He that believes in the divine right of kings believes in a divinity. A Jacobite believes in the divine right of bishops. He that believes in the divine right of bishops believes in the divine authority of the Christian religion.

J. Lees-Milne, The last Stuarts (1983), 3

Tuesday, 3 March 2020

The execution of a king was a greater sin than the Crucifixion, since Christ had not actually been anointed

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

Wednesday, 12 February 2020

The fact that dutiful, righteous, Jacobites kept on failing to overthrow selfish, evil Whigs was thus an implicit paradox within the mental world of Jacobitism

The fact that dutiful, righteous, Jacobites kept on failing to overthrow selfish, evil Whigs was thus an implicit paradox within the mental world of Jacobitism. If they could not somehow resolve it they were liable to doubt God's blessing upon their cause. And without his blessing their opposition to the status quo in the British Isles was nothing more than an egregious sin.

D. Szechi, 'The long shadow of 1715. The great Jacobite rebellion in Scots Jacobite politics and memory - a preliminary analysis', Royal Stuart Journal 7 (2016), 24