There's a really interesting Jacobite exhibition on at Fairfax House, York (the original one ) until 31 Dec which is well worth a visit if anyone is in the area. They have some very interesting artefacts on display including many which I'd never seen and several that I didn't know even existed. More generally, Fairfax House is well worth a visit. The Earl had strong Jacobite connections and the house has been beautifully restored and includes an excellent plaster ceiling full of Stuart symbolism.
Dale Seago,MacGumerait
Fairfax House is well worth a visit whatever your religious or political sympathies. The family was Roman Catholic: he only had one child, a daughter, who gave the land to the community of English monks expelled from France by the French Revolution, which is now Ampleforth Abbey, the principal Benedictine community in the UK.
I rather think Scottish Jabobites might be a bit cheesed off with English Jacobites. The Scots marched into England as far as Derby, passing York, in the hope the English Jacobites would rise and support them in restoring the House of Stuart and the English Jacobites never lifted a finger.
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