James Paynter (Jacobite)

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James Paynter was the leader of a Jacobite uprising in Cornwall in the 18th century.

In 1715 he took an active part in proclaiming James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) on the death of Queen Anne, for this he was tried at Launceston and acquitted and welcomed by "bonfire and by ball" from thence to the Land's End[1] For his actions he was awarded a Jacobite Peerage.

Family

James Paynter was descended from the wealthy Paynter family of Boskenna House in St Buryan; he was from a junior branch of this family that settled at Trekenning House in St Columb Major parish. His forebears at Boskenna were also known to be Jacobite sympathisers and in 1745 villagers at St Buryan were convinced that the Paynter family were harbouring Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender).[2]

Other Jacobite leaders in the Southwest

References

  1. ↑ Boase, George Clement (1890). Collectanea Cornubiensia. Netherton and Worth. p. 672. Retrieved 2007-08-16. 
  2. ↑ Pearce, John The Wesleys in Cornwall. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1964

Further reading

  • West Britons ISBN 0-85989-687-0 by Mark Stoyle
  • An Incident in Cornwall in 1715, JRIC XX (1921) by Henry Jenner
  • "When Fortune Frowns" a novel by Kitty Lee (Mrs Henry Jenner) (1895)
  • Jacobite days in the West an article published by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, (259-260) P.Q. Karkeek, (1896)
  • A Faithful Register of the late Rebellion. London, 1718. (Trials of Prisoners.)
  • The Jacobite Activities in South and West England in the Summer of 1715 by Charles Petrie (1935).
  • English Jacobitism, 1710-1715; Myth and Reality by G. V. Bennett

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