The arrest of Sir William Wyndham, 1715. Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, – 1740 of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset. English Tory politician and leader of the Jacobites, he was involved in a plan to invade England and place the Old Pretender on the throne during the Jacobite restoration on the death of Queen Anne. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published

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