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The Old Pretender had some support in England and in September 1715 the Jacobite standard was raised at Perth. 10,000 men rose in arms against Hanoverian rule in Scotland. Parliament passed the Riot Act and a reward of 拢100,000 was posted for the Pretender, dead or alive. Government forces met the Jacobite army at Sheriffmuir, the battle was indecisive but the Jacobites were discouraged and James Stuart returned to France.

James Stanhope, 1st Earl of Stanhope

JAMES STANHOPE, FIRST EARL STANHOPE (1673-1721)

• Politician, soldier and the Earl of Chesterfield's grandson
• As an influential Whig, was influential in the impeachment of Sacheverell
• One of those who helped put down the Jacobite rising of 1715
• Southern Secretary of State and briefly First Lord of the Treasury (1717)
• Shared the blame for the South Sea Bubble fiasco in 1720 which effectively finished him politically

George I had two mistresses, one beautiful whom he made the Duchess of Kendal and one fat whom he made the Countess of Darlington?

Prince George on his expulsion from court in 1717 set up his own household at Leicester House which became a focus for opposition to the Government. This pattern would be repeated with George's own son, Frederick.

IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW KING by MARY MONTAGUE

"...The King's character may be comprised in very few words. In private life he would have been called an honest blockhead; and fortune, that made him King, added nothing to his happiness, only prejudiced his honesty, and shortened his days. No man was ever more free from ambition; he loved money, but loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's.

He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting; he was more properly dull than lazy, and would have been so well contented to have remained in his little town of Hanover, that if the ambition of those about him had not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England; and the natural honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of low education, made him look upon his acceptance of the crown as an act of usurption [sic], which was always uneasy to him.

But he was carried by the stream of the people about him, in that, as in every act of his life. He could speak no English, and was past the age of learning it. Our customs and laws were all mysteries to him, which he neither tried to understand, nor was capable of understanding if he had endeavoured it. He was passively good-natured, and wished all mankind enjoyed quiet - if they would let him do so..."

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1694	Death of Mary II
1701	Death of James II Louis XIV of France recognizes the Old Pretender as king
1702	Anne becomes queen
1704	Battle of Blenheim
1706	Battle of Ramilles
1707	Act of Union with Scotland
1709	Sacheverell impeached
1711	Marlborough dismissed
1714	Death of Queen Anne Death of Sophia, Electress of Hanover George I becomes king
1715	Jacobite revolt
1716	Septennial Act passed
1717	Triple Alliance is formed against Spain
1718	Quadruple Alliance is formed
1720	South Sea Bubble bursts
1722	Walpole becomes Prime Minister
1727	George I dies George II becomes king