Origin of Protestant Scotland: 'Beggars Summons' of 1559?

Request for Info... ^ | 14 May 2005 | Gobucks

[expat_panama]

I can't say enough good things about "The Isles". GET IT!   It's the kind of book you want to reread.  Davies has another good book about Europe too, also great.  The book you mentioned; I looked and I found Scotch-Irish: A Social History.  That the one you mean?

[gobucks]

That's the one ... about a third of the way done.

I am pretty pleased with how it is put together, and it certainly gives me a background regarding the 'troubles' in Ireland, a background that I should have received while in pulik skool....but noooooo just one more hole in the screen the thoughtful educrats provided me when I was young, trusting and deeply stupid... (oh boy, don't have time to rant like I would like, b/c I gotta go to a concert)

[kalee]

ping
Beggars Summons, interesting history discussion

[A. Pole]

Untold in all this is that fact that, in Scotland, a large percent of useable land (I forgot the percentage, I think it was something like 30-40%), was owned by the Church or religious orders.

And the Catholic Church run the hospitals, shelters, houses for the elderly etc ... Henry the Eighth and yhe Calvinists together with Henry the VIII were the first modern freemarketeers and privatizers.

The reverse Robin Hoods - the foreruners of Khodorkovsky and Enron.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Thank you for the interesting (though gruresome) links. St. Nicholas Owen was a man far larger than his stature, it seems.