The Jacobite Rising of 1715 was staged
Mon 5:09 pm +00:00, 28 Apr 2025Source: https://mileswmathis.com/mar.pdf
I’ve posted the intro, photos and links at the above link
This article is a continuance of many others of his about the same period, see his links
First published April 27, 2025
That’s the father of Bonny Prince Charlie. He was James, the Old Pretender, since he led the first of
three major unsuccessful rebellions to retake the throne from the Hanovers for the Stuarts in the early
18th century. This line of the Stuarts had been jettisoned by the Stanleys years earlier because they
weren’t very good at taking orders. Charles I had given the Stanleys—the Lords of the Isles—fits back
in the day, so they faked his death and brought in Cromwell for a while. Charles II was more
malleable, so they reinstalled him as a nod to the people, but when his brother James II tried to reanimate Catholic England, they had to get rid of him as well, bringing in William and Mary from
Holland. William and Mary had no children, so James’ daughter Anne was shuffled in, since she
agreed not to be a Catholic or to make any trouble for the Stanleys. Anne’s only son died, so the poor
Stanleys were up against the wall yet again in 1714. They hadn’t had any luck since they had installed
Henry VII after the staged Battle of Bosworth, and it is pretty easy to see they were cursed. But this
has never stopped them. To keep the Catholic Stuarts from returning to the throne, they had to dig
even deeper than usual into their bag of tricks, tapping the German George of Hanover to be the
English king, even though he didn’t even speak English. After becoming King of England he remained
Elector of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, which is all the more extraordinary given
subsequent wars.
This decision was very unpopular with the people of England and Scotland—who generally saw James
Stuart as the rightful heir to the throne—as well as with many members of Parliament and the nobility,
who naturally felt the same. None of them wished to be ruled by this bloated German Duke of the
hated Holy Roman Empire. The Stanleys knew this of course and ran their usual gambit: they
forestalled a real revolution by manufacturing a fake one.
How do I know? Well, the first clue that told me my guess was right is that one of the alleged leaders
of the rebellion was Edward Howard, at the time heir to the 8
th Duke of Norfolk. He would later marry
Mary Blount and become Earl Marshal of the Realm (carrier of the Sword of State—signifying the
Stanleys again). So he came out of this rebellion smelling like a rose, which is clue enough. But of
course the primary red flags on him come from his name. The Howards had been first cousins of the
Stuarts going way back, but by the time of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, they had become Stanley men,
staging many fake rebellions in those years for their masters. This is because the Howards basically
became Tudors in those years via many marriages, and the Tudors were really Stanleys. I showed you
many instances of that in that paper, including the Bosworth fake, the Anne Boleyn fake, the Catherine
Howard fake, the Ridolfi Plot, and several others. In those fake plots they did exactly the same thing
they did in the First Jacobite rising: pretend to lead a rebellion against the King (or Queen). And, just
as all the times before, they skated in mysterious ways, suffering no diminishment and not even losing
their status as the Earl Marshal. That is enough to prove it right there, with no other evidence. But we
will continue just for fun.
Another leader of this fake rebellion was John Erskine, Earl of Mar, who led it in Scotland.
He was Secretary of State for Scotland in 1715 when he joined the rebellion, which makes no sense on
the face of it. I will be told he joined it because he had been dismissed, but that now looks like a ruse.
Why? Because he joined the rebellion in August, and was raised from Earl to Duke in October. But
wait, who raised him to Duke? Only the King can do that! We are now told James Stuart raised him,
but James Stuart was never King, so that is impossible. Pretenders cannot raise anyone to a dukedom.
They tell us there was a Jacobite Court in Paris or Rome, where James created Dukes and Secretaries of
State and so on, but that is all a fantasy. My guess is Mar really was a Duke, but he was raised by
George for service to the state, not by James.
Here’s another clue:
John Erskine served as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Order of the Fleur de Lys from 1716–
1730, with the purpose of re-establishing the Judaic-Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Wow, is this easy or what? That’s a Jerusalem Cross, and Erskine really wanted it for his very own.
You will see why in a moment.
Wikipedia even admits many historians believe Erskine was a spy, working for the other side.
