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What were the followers of James II called? Roundheads, Puritans, Jacobites, or Jameses?

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they were called the Jacobites

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Jacobites

"Jacobite" comes from the word "Jacobus", that means James in Latin.

The Jacobites were mostly Scottish people that supported the James II return to the throne so he and his descendant can govern in both Scotland and England. Prior to this, James II had been deposed and exiled by the Protestant Parliament and other Protestant defenders in 1688 because of some conflicts related to James II's support for Catholicism.

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