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Complete Baronetage.
{The notes and memoranda for the Jacobite Baronetcies from volume V are transcribed below.—Transcr.}
Jacobite Baronetcies.
created 11 Dec. 1688 to 31 Jan. 1788.
[volume 5, page 446]
Being (1) those made by James II after his dethronement, 11 Dec. 1688, till his death, (2) those made by his son and successor, titular James III (the Chevalier de St. George), 16 Sep. 1701 till his death, and (3) finally those made by that Prince's son and successor, titular Charles III (Prince Charles Edward), 1 Jan. 1766, till his death, 31 Jan. 1788, when such creations ceased inasmuch as neither Baronetcies nor Peerages were conferred by that Prince's brother and successor, titular Henry IX (Cardinal York), on whose death, 13 July 1807, the male descendants of the Stuart Kings became extinct, and the assumption of the royal title ceased.
These creations, whether English, Scotch or Irish, are in the subjoined account classed together chronologically, and it must be borne in mind that the Act of Union with Scotland, in 1707, was not acknowledged by these Princes so that the creations made by them after that date still continue as of England or of Scotland, and not (as was the case in the creations by the Constitutional Sovereigns) as of Great Britain.
An account of these creations, of which till recently very little was known, has been admirably set forth by the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval in a work entitled “ The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Grants of Honour ” (1 vol., pp. 268, Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1904), with genealogical notes by its author. To this work the reader is referred for fuller particulars than those that are here given, and to it the Editor is for the most part indebted for the information set forth below.
CREATION BY JAMES II.
After his dethronement, 11 Dec. 1688, till his death, 16 Sep. 1701.(a)
- Note (a).—It seems probable that James II (who created after his dethronement about 10 English, 5 Scotch, and 11 Irish peerages) conferred more Baronetcies than this one, though the record of such creations has, apparently, perished.
[volume 5, page 447]
CREATIONS BY THE TITULAR KING JAMES III.
16 Sep. 1701 to 1 Jan. 1766.
[volume 5, page 459]
CREATIONS BY THE TITULAR KING CHARLES III.
1 Jan. 1766 to 31 Jan. 1788.(b)
- Note (b).—Very few dignities were conferred by this Prince, only one peerage (the Dukedom of Albany [S.], conferred on or before 24 March 1783, on his illegit. da., Charlotte, whom he also “ invested with the green ribbon, as K.T.,” on St. Andrew's Day, 1784), and two Baronetcies [S.], viz., Hay and Stewart, as above. He is also alleged, though, apparently without any valid authority, to have created (presumably in 1745) when [titular] Prince Regent, two other Peerages, viz., the Dukedom of Munster [I.], conferred on John William O'Sullivan, and the Viscountcy of Frendraught [S.], conferred on James Crichton. See Ruvigny's Jacobite Creations (as on page 446, note “ c ”), under “ O'Sullivan,” for the former, and see Scots Peerage (1906), under “ Frendraught,” for the latter.
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