Perhaps some of the historians on the forum might care to give authoritative opinion as to the extent Jacobism was synonymous with Catholicism? OK, Charles was Catholic, but my reading suggests that a very significant proportion of Jacobites (including many of the gentry and at least one minister) were in fact Protestant. Given a largely protestant England and a Catholic France, one can see why labelling the Jacobites as all Catholics would have been a very useful piece of propaganda for those politically opposed to them. Anyone have provable facts?