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James III. was killed in flight near Bannockburn, 1488.
Mary Stuart was beheaded 1588 (New Style).
James II. of England was dethroned 1688.
Charles Edward died 1788.
*** James Stuart, the "Old Pretender," was born 1688, the very year that his father abdicated.
James Stuart, the famous architect, died 1788.
(Some affirm that Robert II., the first Stuart king, died 1388, the year of the great battle of Otterburn; but the death of this king is more usually fixed in the spring of 1390.)
 
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