Charles II, the Stuart king who restored England’s monarchy in 1660 after years of turbulence and civil war, is well known to ...

In 1715, there was an attempted rising by Jacobites against the Hanoverian monarchy. This became known as 'the 15.' Jacobites longed for a restoration of the Stuart dynasty and from 1707 they were ...

Despite the Restoration, Parliament had won the upper ... Political allegiance was determined by attitudes to the Stuart monarchy, with the Whigs supporting both the dethronement of James II ...

Jacobites longed for a restoration of the Stuart dynasty and ... This was because a Stuart monarchy made the reversal of Union more likely. The Jacobites favoured an Episcopalian Church.