The Jacobite march through Lancashire in November 1715 was intended to raise the large Catholic gentry population of the county for the Stuart cause. Wigan was a key staging point — several Lancashire Catholic families joined the Jacobite column here. Government militia attempted to shadow and harass the column but could not bring it to bay before Preston. Lancashire Jacobitism was a real and significant movement, drawing on old recusant Catholic networks.
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