| Description | The papers of exiled James II (1633-1701), his wife, Mary of Modena (1658-1718), their son, James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766) (the 'old Pretender', addressed as James III in many of the letters); as well the latter's sons, Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) (the 'young Pretender' or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', often referred to as Charles III after 1766), and Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807), from June 1747 Cardinal Duke of York, and self-styled Henry IX and I from 1788. The papers, mainly for the period 1713 to 1770, document their lives, the administration and activities of the Stuart Court in Exile, the appointment of Court officials, ministers, agents and spies, the correspondence with European rulers and their ministers, and with the Papacy. A significant proportion of the letters are wholly or partly in cipher, now often with the translation written above the line. |
| Publications | Transcripts of the papers can be found in the following:
A History of the Highlands, and of the Highland Clans, 1727-1759, 3 vols, ed. James Browne, published by A. Fullarton & Co., Glasgow, 1838;
The Stuart Papers, printed from the originals in the possession of Her Majesty the Queen, 1717-1725, ed. John Hulbert Glover, published by W. N. Wright, London, 1847;
The Forty-Five: Being the Narrative of the Insurrection of 1745, [1745-1747], ed. Lord Mahon, published by John Murray, London, 1851; 1745 and after, eds Harriet Tayler and Alistair Tayler, published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1938;
The Stuart Papers at Windsor: Being Selections from Hitherto Unprinted Royal Archives, 1718-1749, eds Harriet Tayler and Alistair Tayler, published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1939;
Ireland in the Stuart Papers, 1719-1765, ed. Patrick Fagan, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1995. |