James Paynter (Jacobite)

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James Paynter was the leader of a Jacobite uprising in Cornwall in the eighteenth century.

In 1715 he took an active part in proclaiming James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) on the death of Queen Anne, for this he was tried at Launceston and acquitted and welcomed by "bonfire and by ball" from thence to the Land's End^[1]

Contents 1 Further reading 2 Other Jacobite leaders in the Southwest 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Further reading

• West Britons ISBN 0-85989-687-0 by Mark Stoyle
• An Incident in Cornwall in 1715, JRIC XX (1921) by Henry Jenner
• "When fortune frowns" a novel by Mrs Henry Jenner (1895)
• Jacobite days in the West an article published by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science , Literature and Art, (259-260) P.Q. Karkeek, (1896)
• A Faithful Register of the late Rebellion. London, 1718. (Trials of Prisoners.)
• The Jacobite Activities in South and West England in the Summer of 1715 by Charles Petrie (1935).
• English Jacobitism, 1710-1715; Myth and Reality by G. V. Bennett

[edit] Other Jacobite leaders in the Southwest

• Sir Richard Vyvyan (Jacobite)
• James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
• George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
• John Anstis

[edit] External links

• John Parker -Witness of the proclaimation

[edit] References

1. ^ Boase, George Clement (1890). Collectanea Cornubiensia. Netherton and Worth, 672. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.