I just had a great moment in genealogy. I discovered a list of condemned Irish Jacobites and found my 9x great grandfather on the list. Does anyone know if...
... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/20/wvatican120.xml ... Who knows it was a complicated period, by this time the French had been...
It is a curious thing isn't it, but I wouldnt like to judge the decisions of the Holy Pontiff. As there not a case to be made that the Papal Tiara isn't to be...
See the article below, based on calls for the repeal of the Act of Settlement. A handy family tree shows a more involved piece of journalism than the usual...
In today's Daily Telegraph there is a news article on the possibility of the Prime Minister repealing the 1701 Act of Settlement. There is a very nice...
This only demonstrates that Papal Infalibility, as defined by the Vaticaan Council (1870), does NOT extend to politics. It also suggests that the Papacy was...
MurphVMI65@...
Apr 9, 2008 2:50 am
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It has been some time since last I visited Dr. Iain Old's Scottish Politics Page (www.scottishpolitics.org). Since last I was there, he has added a fairly...
... The facts have been known for quite sometime. Innocent deserves, if not the canonization, at any rate his current status of blessed, for (1) advising Louis...
... Vaticaan Council (1870), does NOT extend to politics. It also suggests that the Papacy was still having nightmares over the "Babylonian Captivity" of...
I am not disputing that these facts have been cycling the public arena for some time, but i did specify 'widely' known. As most Catholics actually fail to...
An interesting page indeed, Malcolm, though I would have to take issue with the 7th Duke being referred to as John I. No matter what we think of Tomb...
... Precisely! And this is why I am ready to question certain people's motives in raising the issue at this time and in such a guise that they can claim to...
I think that Pierre Bellamare's intuitions are correct. I too am not inclined to believe that the motives of this Italian literary couple are so "pure". Their...
The Honourable John Drummond, Secretary of State for Scotland, April 1684 (Charles II), confirmed in office by King James VII, 1685. Created Viscount of...
"A Highland amateur historian claims that the National Trust for Scotland has spent thousands of pounds on a tapestry which depicts an English battle in...
The list of prisoners taken in the aftermath of Culloden include two without names. The first is a deaf mute Highlander who is described in the list in terms...
Well of course it didn't lead the clans into battle against the English. The clans - the real Highland ones - tended to keep to themselves. Jud Cole "Noel S....
Heaven! The next thing you're going to tell me is that the Highland clans didn't wear tartan during medieval times! ;-) Jared Linn Olar ... "Hagios o Theos,...
Jared & Christina Olar
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Apr 20, 2008 6:40 pm
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A correspondent of mine asks whether the Englefield family were Jacobites. He is interested in Joseph Augustine Englefield (born in Frascati in 1838), last...
There was not only an Irish Brigade, for which the French Army was a vehicle for fighting against the usurpers, but also a Scottish regiment (in all...
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Apr 23, 2008 3:38 am
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His Serene Highness Prince George of Liechtenstein celebrated his ninth birthday last Sunday and today is the feast day of his Patron, Saint George. The young...
The "black" person imprisoned after Culloden was seemingly a servant of a McNaughton of Jamaica......I note several Jacobite prisoners were transported there...
Dr. Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac has published an article in the summer 2008 issue of "Irish Sword", the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland. Its...
I observe that the vast majority of new members of this Jacobite Yahoo! list are from North America. How do they identify with Jacobitism, or how did they...
I wrote a history of the de facto monarchs of England (1066- )and (1603-) Great Britain that included two chapters on the de jure Jacobite Kings. I found them...
OK--here goes.? Another Yank and fairly recent member of the list.? Why have I joined this list? I've long been fascinated by (perhaps even obsessed with) the...
Actually the Scottish regiment, called the Royal Ecossois, served at the siege of Tournai while the battle of Fontenoy was fought. I cannot think of a general...
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