James Francis Edward Stuart — "James VIII" to his supporters — landed at Peterhead in December 1715 and was received at Dundee and Perth. He was too late to inspire the rising; the military situation was already deteriorating. He spent six weeks in Scotland before slipping away by ship with Mar in February 1716 as the Jacobite cause collapsed. This was his only time in Scotland.
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