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Following the plot,The Earl of Jersey and Thomas Forster, a member of the Lower house in Parliament were also arrested.
Forster subsquently escaped from prison and went north to Join the Earl of Derwentwater, who had been informed of a warrant against him but had escaped before it could be effected.
Together these two began to collect supporters of the Royal Stewart cause. The were joined by the Earl of Wintoun and the Earl of Kenmuir.
As they marched through the north of England gathering supporters and proclaiming King James as they went, Forster sent into Scotland to the Earl of Mar and asked for assistance.
Mar sent MacIntosh of Borlum with a large highland force, south into England to join Fosters small army. Wit this large force. Forster now marched to lancaster, passing through many places and proclaiming King james at them all.
At Preston in Lancashire however, this Jacobite force met the government General Wyndham and during the night of the 12/13 November 1715, the Jacobites were defeated after Forster surrendered to Wyndham.
At exactly the time when the Battle of Sheriffmuir was being fought above Dunblane in Scotland between the forces of the government and the Earl of Mar, the valiant highlanders who had been sent by Mar to aid Forster, were being rounded up as prisoners. Those captives who did not die in prison, were sent as slaves to the colonies.
Forster was snteced to death, but again escaped from prison. The Earl of Derwentwater and the Earl of Kenmuir both went to the block, meeting their end with courage and still proclaiming James Stewart as King.
MacIntosh of Borlum escaped from prison but many other gentry and fighting men, both English and Scots, did not, and were also executed.