Commemorative plaque. Invercauld Arms Hotel, Braemar, Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
Following the arrival from Hanover of George I in 1714, Tory Jacobites in England conspired to organise armed rebellions against the new Hanoverian government. They were indecisive and frightened by government arrests of their leaders. In Scotland 1715 was the time of the First Jacobite Rebellion (or Rising). The Treaty of Utrecht ended hostilities between France and Britain. From France, as part of widespread Jacobite plotting, James Stuart, the Old Pretender, had been corresponding with the Earl of Mar. In the summer of 1715 James called on Mar to raise the Clans. Mar, nicknamed Bobbin' John, rushed from London to Braemar. He summoned clan leaders to "a grand hunting-match" on 27 August 1715. On 6 September he proclaimed James as "their lawful sovereign" and raised the old Scottish standard. Mar's proclamation brought in an alliance of clans and northern Lowlanders, and they quickly overran many parts of the Highlands. The plaque opposite the Invercauld Arms Hotel is inscribed as follows:- 'ERECTED BY THE DEESIDE FIELD CLUB IN 1953, THE CORONATION YEAR OF ELIZABERTH, QUEEN OF SCOTS, TO COMMEMORATE THE RAISING OF THE STANDARD ON 6th. SEPTEMBER, 1715, BY JOHN ERSKINE, EARL OF MAR. A TABLET IN THE INVERCAULD ARMS HOTEL MARKS THE SPOT WHERE THE STANDARD WAS RAISED. "ADD GLORY TO THE PAST" '
Size: 2484px × 4035px
Location: Invercauld Arms Hotel, Braemar, Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
Photo credit: © Stan Pritchard / Alamy / Afripics
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