Recovering from an infamous massacre of dissenters, defeats in battle, and laws put in place to restrict Catholicism in the kingdoms and from the crown, the Jacobite standard was raised once again in 1714 on the ascension of George I to the British and Irish thrones.

[8] The elector of Hanover, George I came from the Holy Roman Empire to a new land of which he was now king, was alleged to have spoken only a minimal amount of English.

Auld Scotland, thou'rt o'er cauld a hole For nursing siccan vermin; But the very dogs o' England's court, They bark and howl in German.

And when we went to bring him home, He was delving in his kale-garden; Planting kale and laying leeks, Without the stockings, nor the trousers; And in his beggar rags he thieves, The little German lordling.

And he's sat down in our good man's chair, The little German lordling, And he's brought forth the foreign trash, And planted them in his garden.

He's pruned the rose of English loons, And broken the harp of Irish clowns, But our Scots thistle will prick his thumbs, The little German lording.