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
For his actions he was awarded a Jacobite Peerage
.
House in St Buryan
. james 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 convinviced that the Paynter family were harbouring Charles Edward Stuart
(the Young pretender).
In 1715 he took an active part in proclaiming James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales was the son of the deposed James II of England...
(the Old Pretender) on the death of Queen Anne
Anne of Great Britain
Anne ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.Anne's Catholic father, James II and VII, was deposed during the...
, for this he was tried at Launceston and acquitted and welcomed by "bonfire and by ball" from thence to the Land's End
Land's End
Land's End is a headland and small settlement in west Cornwall, England, within the United Kingdom. It is located on the Penwith peninsula approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....
For his actions he was awarded a Jacobite Peerage
Jacobite peerage
After the deposition by the English parliament in February 1689 of King James II and VII from the thrones of England and Ireland , he and his successors continued to create peers and baronets, which they believed was their right...
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Family
James Paynter was descended from the wealthy Paynter family of BoskennaBoskenna
Boskenna is a settlement in west Cornwall, United Kingdom, near the village of St Buryan.Boskenna was the home of the Paynter family for centuries until sold in 1957 by when it consisted of seven farms, five market gardens and a Manor House....
House in St Buryan
St Buryan
St Buryan is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The village of St Buryan is situated approximately five miles west of Penzance along the B3283 towards Land's End...
. james 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
Jacobitism
Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...
sympathisers and in 1745 villagers at St Buryan were convinviced that the Paynter family were harbouring Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Edward Stuart
Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of Great Britain , and Ireland...
(the Young pretender).
Further reading
- West Britons ISBN 0-85989-687-0 by Mark Stoyle
- An Incident in Cornwall in 1715, JRICRoyal Institution of CornwallThe Royal Institution of Cornwall was founded in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, in 1818 as the Cornwall Literary and Philosophical Institution. The Institution was one of the earliest of seven similar societies established in England and Wales. The RIC moved to its present site in River Street...
XX (1921) by Henry JennerHenry JennerHenry Jenner FSA was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival.... - "When fortune frowns" a novel by 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 PetrieCharles PetrieSir Charles Alexander Petrie, 3rd Baronet was a popular historian. Of Irish lineage, but born in Liverpool, he was educated at Oxford, and in 1927 succeeded to the family baronetcy....
(1935). - English Jacobitism, 1710-1715; Myth and Reality by G. V. Bennett
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