Nero the Second
"Nero the Second" or "Nero II" is a traditional ballad that was popular amongst Jacobites in Great Britain and Ireland during the first half of the eighteenth century.[1]
The Nero of the title, a reference to the tyrannical Roman Emperor Nero, is a thinly disguised version of George I the Hanoverian who had come to the throne in 1714. Jacobites supported a rival Stuart claimant the English-born James Francis Edward Stuart, styled James III by his followers, who was now living in exile.
References
- ^ Fenlon p.186
Bibliography
- Jane Fenlon. The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610–1745. Boydell & Brewer, 2000.
- Paul Kleber Monod. Jacobitism and the English People, 1688–1788. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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