After the Battle of Preston in November 1715, where the combined Scots and English Jacobite force surrendered to government troops, a number of Jacobites escaped from the town before the formal surrender and attempted to evade capture in the Lancashire countryside. Government cavalry and militia hunted these fugitives through the lanes and villages north of Preston. The Earl of Derwentwater was captured, tried and beheaded. Thomas Forster escaped from Newgate Prison and fled to France. A number of lesser English Jacobites were captured in this post-Preston fugitive hunt.
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