Obs. [ad. med.L. Jacōbīta, f. Jacōbus: see -ITE.] = JACOBIN sb.1 1.
c. 1550. Bale, K. Johan (Camden), 18. Jacobytes, Mynors, Whyght Carmes, and Augustynis.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 174. In a Monasterie of the Iacobits at Paris … the Epitaph, of Humbert is thus conceiued.
1818. A. Ranken, Hist. France, IV. IV. 317. They granted … to the Dominicans or Jacobites certain rights.
