That is, that it renders quite incredible the picture which Thackeray gives in "Esmond" of the old Pretender when he in his turn was the young Pretender. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

James Francis Stuart, the 'Old Pretender', or would be King, was born on June 10th, 1688. On that same date in 1727, George I, the Hanoverian usurper of the Stuart's right to rule, passed away.

While James, often referred to as 'the old pretender', was unsuccessful, his son Prince Charles Edward Stuart embarked upon a second Jacobite rebellion in 1745. Despite initial success ...