Remember that a civil war was within living memory whereby Parliament was very protestant and the Royalists not terribly roman catholic so where is the impetus to support a catholic king in England? James II could only get support in Ireland.
When his grandson raised a Scots army he got no support in England and his Scots army melted away when they saw the English people refused to join them. Even in the Lowlands of Scotland he had trouble recruiting.
England was not France. The English Civil War had shown that the support of the common people was necessary and they were not usually Jacobite nor catholic.
When his grandson raised a Scots army he got no support in England and his Scots army melted away when they saw the English people refused to join them. Even in the Lowlands of Scotland he had trouble recruiting.
England was not France. The English Civil War had shown that the support of the common people was necessary and they were not usually Jacobite nor catholic.