Scottish PRETENDERS.

The article offers information on the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745 and the 300th anniversary of the rising known as "the Fifteen" from 1715-16. Topics include the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution in 1688-89 and the Act of Settlement in 1701, the breakout of the rebellion in 1715 led by the Earl of Mar, and the role of James Stuart, "the Old Pretender" and the rumoured son of King James II, in the 1715 rebellion, and his son, Charles Stuart in the 1745 uprising.