| OLDPRETENDER | The ___, nickname of Prince James, Prince of Wales, the son of the deposed James II of England (3,9) |
| PRETENDER | 'The Old _', nickname of James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the deposed James II of England (9) |
| JACOBITE | Supporter of the deposed James II |
| SWALE | River in Wales son's seen first (5) |
| FERDINAND | Christian name of the 15th century ruler of Aragon who married Isabella of Castille, so forming the basis of modern Spain; and, also, the name of the son of the 13th/14th century King James II of Mall |
| BOYNE | A battle in 1690 in which William III defeated the deposed James II (5) |
| ANNEHYDE | First wife of James II of England and mother of Mary II and Queen Anne (4,4) |
| MODENA | Mary of ___, born in 1658, second wife of King James II of England (6) |
| BILLOFRIGHTS | 1689 statute which condemned misdeeds of James II |
| CAGNEY | James II of England visits animal enclosure before day's end (6) |
| EATON | Which London Square is the address of these fictional characters: James' Prince Amerigo, Trollope's Sir Henry Harcourt, and Archers' the Hon. Charles Seymour? (5) |
| MARY | --- of Modena, queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James II (4) |
| WHIGS | Members of the English political party that opposed the succession to the throne of James II (5) |
| JACOBITES | Supporters of the royal house of Stuart after the deposition of James II in 1688 (9) |
| WHIG | Member of the political party that opposed the succession to the throne of James II (4) |
| ANNE | Second daughter of James II and last British monarch of the Stuart dynasty, on the throne from 1702-14 (4) |
| THISTLE | Order of the ___ , Scottish order of knighthood instituted by James II and VII in 1687 (7) |
| JEFFREYS | George, severe law man in the reign of King James II nicknamed The Hanging Judge (8) |
| MACAULAY | Whig historian famed for his work on the period following the accession of James II (8) |
| GALBA | Emperor of Rome who succeeded the deposed Nero in 68 AD (5) |