Religion
While Jacobitism was closely linked with Catholicism from the outset, particularly in Ireland, in Britain Catholics were a small minority by 1689 and the bulk of Jacobite support came from other groups. Catholics formed about 75% of the population of Ireland. In England, however, not more than 2–3 percent of the population could have been "practising Catholics," though in the north and south of England, "at least one half of the population outside the towns were Catholic in some degree." By this definition, Catholics would have numbered "10–15 percent of the total English population." Catholics survived most strongly among the nobility, of whom "15–20 percent clung to the old faith..." In Scotland (excluding the Highlands and the Isles), about two percent.
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