‘There is now enough evidence available to suggest that Lord Burlington can no longer be regarded as the embodiment of the Whig ideal. Too many circumstances point to his having had #Jacobite connections, directly when travelling on the Continent, through his #freemasonry, 
through his cousin Lord Orrery, through Bishop Atterbury, through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of York), and via servants such as his chaplin Aaron Thompson, or his agent Andrew Crotty. It is now more than ever true, as Jane Clark observed, that the case for Lord
Burlington’s Jacobite loyalty is made more convincingly by the fact that it is possible to explain everything in these terms, whilst a Hanoverian loyalty leaves for too many questions unanswered’. (Edward Corp, ‘Introduction: Lord Burlington’s Political Loyalty’, in ‘ Lord
Burlington. The Man and his Politics: Questions of Loyalty’. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998, p.2).
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