Another event of note in Radbourne was in 1745. This was the year when Bonnie Prince Charlie led the Jacobite invasion from Scotland. The Scottish army reached Derby. The Prince is said to have dined at Radbourne on the very day when he decided to withdraw to Scotland and so to the fatal battle of Culloden. The decision was indeed a fateful one for the whole of British History - had the Prince decided differently he might well have become King. German Pole of Radbourne and his brother Samuel Pole, Rector of Radbourne subscribed to a fund to raise 600 Derbyshire men to fight for King George against the Jacobites. Was this perhaps an attempt to overcome accusations of rebel sympathies?