Caption:
The arrest of Sir William Wyndham, 1715. Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, c.1688 1740 of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset. English Tory politician and leader of the Jacobites, he was involved in a plan to invade England and place the Old Pretender on the throne during the Jacobite restoration on the death of Queen Anne. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c.1890.