The English Jacobite rising in the northeast in 1715 centred on the Catholic gentry of Northumberland. Thomas Forster, the Northumberland Tory MP, led a muster of English Jacobites at Felton on the River Coquet in October 1715. Catholic families from throughout Northumberland — the Radcliffes, Swinburnes, Erringtons and others — assembled with their tenants. The Northumberland rising was the largest English Jacobite mobilisation since Monmouth. This assembly preceded the march north to join the Scots at Kelso and then south to the fatal battle at Preston.
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