Posted on 11/21/2009 8:59:07 AM PST by Dysart
As a student of flatulence, I’d like to know how many Scots were served and did everyone eat the same?
Oh, that Campbell, well this was before there was a load of compromisin’
LOL, that sounds like an interesting field of study!
I’ve known people to use it successfully as a weapon.
What’s hilarious is that as the aristos go broke, all the historic homes and trinkets are being snatched up by foreigners who don’t pay taxes here and football players who are domiciled in the Isle of Man. And that guy who’s urging more inheritance tax knows this. If it cost nothing more than the luxuries of a few toffs I wouldn’t mind as much but once you disperse the contents of these great houses, you’ve lost history. The govt might pay through the nose to keep a Holbein, but they let all the rest, like letters and inventories and uncatalogued items, disperse to all four corners of the world.
These houses in the UK are not like Hearst Castle, they are not random gatherings of artifacts. These pieces, together, in context, provide historical knowledge we are losing through these schemes which don’t even generate useful money.
You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the McDonalds of Glenco, and put all to the sword under seventy. You are to have a special care that the old Fox and his sons doe upon no account escape your hands, you are to secure all the avenues that no man escape. This you are to putt in execution at fyve of the clock precisely; and by that time, or very shortly after it, I’ll strive to be att you with a stronger party: if I doe not come to you att fyve, you are not to tarry for me, but to fall on. This is by the Kings speciall command, for the good & safety of the Country, that these miscreants be cutt off root and branch. See that this be putt in execution without feud or favour, else you may expect to be dealt with as one not true to King nor Government, nor a man fitt to carry Commissione in the Kings service. Expecting you will not faill in the fulfilling hereof, as you love your selfe, I subscribe these with my hand att Balicholis Feb: 12, 1692
For their Majesties service
To Capt. Robert Campbell
of Glenlyon
(signed) R. Duncanson
Never trust a Campbell they have always been a worthless clan.
My paternal grandmother had the maiden name of McDonald, but she always said that her family came from County Meath, Ireland.
Well, my paternal line traces back to Ireland, then east to Scotland, then to the U.S. in 1696. This was not uncommon, and neither was a back-and-forth movement. Same people for the most part, so it wouldn’t exactly be a stretch to believe you may have ancestors here.
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