Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jacobite n.

[? the ‘false’ claims of the Jacobites to the British throne]

a shirt collar, a fake shirt.

[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Jacob [...] sham or Collar Shirts.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Flash Dict.
[UK]G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
[UK]Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.
[US]Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).