Editing James Francis Edward Stuart (section)

===The Fifteen===
[[File:The Old Pretender lands in Scotland, 1715.jpg|thumb|The Old Pretender lands in Scotland after [[Battle of Sheriffmuir|Sheriffmuir]]. An 18th-century engraving.]]
In the following year, Jacobites started uprisings [[Jacobite rising of 1715|in Scotland]] and [[Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715|Cornwall]] aimed at putting "James III and VIII" on the throne. On 22 December 1715, James reached Scotland after the Jacobite defeats at the [[Battle of Sheriffmuir]] (13 November 1715) and [[Battle of Preston (1715)]].<ref name=Nottingham/> He landed at [[Peterhead]] and soon fell ill with fever, his illness made more severe by the icy Scottish winter.{{cn|date=September 2021}} In January 1716, he set up court at [[Scone Palace]]. Reputedly [[Jane Stuart (Quaker)|Jane Stuart]], a half-sister, came from [[Wisbech]] in England to visit him.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Stuart among the Quakers |url=https://journals.sas.ac.uk/fhs/article/download/3003/2957/ |website=journals.sas.ac.uk |access-date=28 March 2021}}</ref> Learning of the approach of government forces, he returned to France, sailing from [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]] on 5 February 1716. The abandonment of his rebel allies caused ill-feeling against him in Scotland;<ref name=Nottingham/> nor was he welcomed on his return to France. His patron, [[Louis XIV]], had died on 1 September 1715, and the French government found him a political embarrassment.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} When France, hitherto his main protector, [[Anglo-French Alliance (1716–1731)|allied with Britain]], this effectively secured the [[House of Hanover|Hanoverian dynasty]]'s monarchy over the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]].{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}