Obs. Colloq. abbrev. of JACOBITE.
1695. B. Blaire, in Sir R. Blackmore, Hist. Conspir. (1723), 180. Men of the greatest Acquaintance and Influence amongst the Jacks.
a. 1700[?]. D’Urfey, Pills (1719), I. 355. The Jacks are fierce, and Williamites are flesh’d.
1708. Mrs. Centlivre, Busie Body, I. i. We are all thought to be Politicians, or Whigs, or Jacks, or High-Flyers, or Low-Flyers, or Levellers.
1732. Gentl. Mag., II. 770. A Jack t’other Day in a Coffee-House prating, For Freedom as strongly as D’Anvers, debating.
