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Auction: 22007 - British and World Coins and Commemorative Medals Autumn Auction
Lot: 791

Capture of the Jacobite Rebels at Preston, AR Medal, 1715, by J. Croker, GEORGIVS • D : G : MAG : BR : FR : ET • HIB : REX • F : D •, laureate, armoured and draped bust right, rev. FIDES MILITVM •, two captives chained to the base of an ornamental pedestal decorated by military trophies, REBELL : AD • PRESTON • CAPT : 13 • NOV : 1715 in exergue in three lines, plain edge, 46mm, 36.91g (Eimer 476; MI ii 436/35; Woolf 31:2), surfaces lightly hairlined and contact marked, nevertheless with proof-like surfaces beneath dark grey toning, the central devices pleasing struck up in high relief, near extremely fine and scarce

Early in 1715 the Jacobite Party planned a new attempt at the invasion of Britain based on simultaneous attacks in the West Country and Scotland where support for the Stuart cause was thought to be strong. The British government was not caught unawares. James' secretary of State, Bolingbroke, shared a mistress, a former nun, with Abbe Dubois, later a cardinal and First Minister of France. Information about the proposed invasion of Britain given by Bolingbroke to the lady was fed to the Abbe who sold it to the British Ambassador to Paris who, in turn, informed the British Government.



An army led by General Mackintosh penetrated as far south as Preston but was defeated. James himself arrived in Scotland in December, but the Duke of Argyll had then had enough time to build up a superior force and the Jacobite's retreated to Montrose. James sailed back to the Papal city of Avignon, having been barred from France by the Treaty of Utrecht.


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