During the 1715 Jacobite rising, there was significant Jacobite sympathy among Yorkshire Tory gentry. Several Yorkshire families were implicated in conspiracies to rise for James III. The government moved quickly to arrest suspected conspirators; the Yorkshire rising never materialised. Some Yorkshire Jacobites escaped to join the Earl of Mar in Scotland. The episode shows Yorkshire as a terrain of Jacobite sympathy even when it produced no major military action.
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