‘This study offers the first comprehensive survey of how the English, Scottish and Irish States responded to the Jacobite threat. Cunningham elucidates how an increasingly centralised government deployed multifarious legal and social measures to suppress and ultimately eliminate Jacobitism. He definitively shows that persecution worked, and that events beyond the battlefield were just as decisive as any military defeat in destroying the Jacobite cause.’
– Daniel Szechi, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester and Honorary Professor in Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

‘A strikingly detailed evaluation of government policy towards the Jacobite threat, with remarkable scholarship on legislation and its implementation.’
– Murray Pittock, Pro-Vice Principal and Bradley Chair of English Literature, University of Glasgow

‘Lucidly presented and diligently executed, this is an intellectually accomplished work. The endeavours of various iterations of the Scottish, English and British States, initially to suppress and finally to assimilate Jacobitism, are forensically examined. Reprisals particularly impacted the Scottish Highlands, while imperial service on exposed frontiers sustained Jacobite rehabilitation.’
– Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Strathclyde and Honorary Professor in Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

Introduction

PartI:Delegitimisation
1 Legitimacy and legality
2 Devotion and division

PartII:Criminalisation
3 Policy and hindsight
4 Legislation and precedent
5 Prosecution and defence
6 Punishment and clemency

Part III: Reincorporation
7 Policy and reform
8 Legislation and repeal
9 Assimilation and reinvention

Conclusion

Appendices
Appendix A: An analysis of Jacobite punishments following the rising of 1715–16
Appendix B: An analysis of Jacobite punishments following the rising of 1745–46
Appendix C: Jacobite-related public legislation, 1688–1807
Bibliography
Index