ABSTRACT

The Jacobite march through the north-western counties has been covered by those previously writing about the Fifteen; Baynes devotes a whole chapter to it. 1 However, there has been a tendency to downplay the independent behaviour in these counties of both those who opposed the Jacobites and those who supported them. Jacobite participation in the rising has been surveyed by Monod in his magisterial study of English Jacobitism. 2 The responses of those in authority throughout all the northern English counties have been studied by Oates. 3 This chapter surveys the Jacobite march southwards, detailing the activity of those loyal to the Jacobite cause and those to the Hanoverian cause, as well as detailing the activity of the regular troops who were opposing the Jacobites.