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JAMES STUART

James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) was a reputed son of James II and pretender to the English throne. He was born in 1688 and died in 1766. He made an ineffectual attempt to land in Scotland in 1708, and in 1715 landed at Peterhead but the rebellion in his favour was virtually over and he retreated to Rome.
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