captain eyre probably secretly sympathised with their situation,being a fellow british soldier ,so he did what he could to save them.maybe he told them what...
Hi John You might be a bit hasty in assuming that Captain Eyre really did believe all their stories, and also a little hasty in assuming that they were false. ...
As members may be aware I have been spending the past few days analysing spread sheets based on the muster list of Fitzjames Horse, the Cavalry Regt (based on...
Bill, Hi.I dont agree with one of your statements. I hope you dont mind me saying so :) The "bad guys" in the Forty Five were not the "English". The bad guys ...
the english officer was Captain Eyre, who had an estate at Eyrecourt, in south east Galway. He was probably the third generation (maybe fourth).It was...
John, I am guessing that your tongue is firmly in your cheek when you are suggesting one of the men was a woman. Surprising that a man of 68 would be in active...
... The thing is that Jacobitism can be subdivided into a number of points of view. There are, for lack of a better term, the "Jacobite Legitimists" which ...
On Monday, October 8, His Majesty The King (in his capacity as Head of the House of Wittelsbach) attended the farewell reception for Dr. Edmund Stoiber,...
For those who like to follow the hobbies of the Royal Family, I recommend the following webpage with photographs taken by Count Bertram von Quadt (grandson of...
Hi Bill. Thanks for this. I will publish an analysis of the stories hopefully over weekend. I think theres a pattern to interrogation and counter interrogation...
But we also need to remember that there were Scottish supporters of the Hanovers who strongly protested Cumberland's actions. The Duke of Argyll refused to let...
Anne, Yes I am tongue in cheek at La Jeunesse. Possibly a cantiniere but I doubt it. Just one of those oddities that happens on lists. No misprint on the...
In response to Malcolm's classification system for Jacobites, I would like to propose my own The group Jacobite Legitimists can roughly be defined along 3...
... I wouldn't say that my "classification system" was in any way comprehensive or complete. It was merely an offhand listing of three different subsets of...
Hi Anne Actually we do agree, perhaps I phrased myself badly! I would never mind anyone pointing out that they disagreed with me either, no matter how much I...
Hi John I've been thinking about this and I think that the true point of Captain Eyre's interrogations were not really to determine everyone's life history...
Good morning to all, As french member of the jacobite group in Yahoo, i have been reading all topics for the past month but i am wondering one thing which...
"I wouldn't say that my "classification system" was in any way comprehensive or complete. It was merely an offhand listing of three different subsets of...
I am sorry to say that the Scots people seem to have bought into socialism in a big way. An independent Scotland would be more likely to be a much more...
Bill Thanks again. I really appreciate the input here. First off I am really involved in two tasks. 1 the analysis of the 1737 muster list 2 the analysis of...
MacKenzie saw no contradiction in being a Jacobite and a Scottish Nationalist. In fact as I understand it he was one of the ten original founders of the SNP....
James Taylor wrote maybe you can start a party.maybe a scottish duke would be willing to be king of scotland It is not like a pick and mix selection in a sweet...
Dear list, I hope & trust you are all well.I have been a member of this list for quite a while now but in the past when i have sent letters I have not heard...
I've been wondering for some time now, as an off-shoot of the various discussions on what it means to be a "real" Jacobite, what list members make of the...
... They still appear to exist - see http://www.defendersofscotland.org/ However only one of the proposed three journals a year has appeared and the web site...
Dear Morgan, Your exemplary loyalty to HIS MAJESTY KING FRANCIS II has not gone unobserved. On many occasions you have sent loyal greetings and congratulations...
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We have to remember that "elected" merely means "chose." The titled and landed nobility of Scotland didn't formally hold an "election," casting ballots....
Was not Compton Mackenzie also a charter member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) or was it the Catholic Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament?...
