James Paynter
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Who is James Paynter?
James Paynter was the leader of a Jacobite uprising in Cornwall in the 18th century.
In 1715 he took an active part in proclaiming James Francis Edward Stuart on the death of Queen Anne, for this he was tried at Launceston and acquitted and welcomed by "bonfire and by ball" from thence to the Land's End For his actions he was awarded a Jacobite Peerage.
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