Jacobite and Hanoverian Drinking Customs
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 400 objects connected with the Jacobite cause. This collection includes approximately 23 wine glasses used to toast the Stuart monarchs and claimants to the thrones of Great Britain and France. There are also collections of similar wine glasses and drinking gear which were used to toast the Hanoverian monarchs, Kings George I and II, who were the Jacobites’ enemies during the 1715 and 1745 uprisings. However, these collections are much smaller, with 6 glass wine glasses, 1 pewter tankard, 1 jug and a toddy ladle representing these Kings’ causes and reigns. The importance of the toast of loyalty to a cause is reflected in the words and ceremonies of the toast, as well as the imagery used on the glasses and equipment. Although kept in secret some toasts would have made allegiance to the Jacobite or Hanoverian causes obvious had drinkers been using glasses which bore the portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, or carrying a coin of Kings George I or George II. Glasgow Museums collections can give examples of such drinking equipment as well as other examples of drinking vessels which carry engraved Jacobite slogans, such as the Erskine Amen glass displayed at Kelvingrove Museum, or hold a reputation for having been used by Prince Charles himself in Scotland such as a set of two wine glasses and two liqueur glasses.
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