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Consider this: At this time, the Earl Philip Stanhope was ruling in Ireland. "Short as it was, January 1745 to November 1746, [his] appointment as Viceroy of Ireland was effective; he repressed the jobbery traditional to the office, and established schools and manufactures. He conciliated and kept in check the Whig and pro-Jacobite factions; as a result Irish Jacobites did not assist the Jacobite rising of 1745."

But as Lord Stanhope would have agreed, historical events often are made by the most trifling causes. What if another, less capable man had been in his place? How troublesome would a Jacobite rising in Treland have been?
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