Excerpt from The Scottish Jacobites and Their Songs and Music: With a Succinct Account of Their Battles The writer has endeavoured within the compass of a brief essay to sum up the characteristic features of the Jacobite move ments, their originating causes, and the effects produced by them, and also by the songs and music of the Stuart adherents both at the time of the Risings and afterwards. He has also tried (although the tale has often been told) to give a succinct narrative of the Risings from the flight of James the Second in 1688 to the Battle of Culloden and the escape of Prince Charles Edward in 1746. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.