ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on the militia raised in 1745-6. It argues that despite a host of difficulties, significant numbers of men were formed, both in England and Scotland, into numerous militia units in both 1715 and 1745. The chapter will cover a wider remit by surveying the militia raised throughout Britain against the Jacobites in this period. Although the militia frequently feature in most histories of the Jacobite rebellions, relatively little attention is paid to them, and certainly not to their formation. The principal military force in Britain after 1660, apart from the relatively small regular army and the Royal Navy was the militia, which was an older military institution than the regular army. By the eighteenth century, the militia was governed by legislation made shortly after the Restoration of 1660 and was in part a reflection of the fear of standing armies following the period of Cromwell's military rule.
