To: blam
I understand the Welsh and Scots didn't think so highly of him.
He wasn't so "saintly" to them.
7 posted on
12/01/2005 6:21:03 PM PST by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: starfish923
I understand the Welsh and Scots didn't think so highly of him. That's Edward the First. A few centuries after Edward the Confessor.
To: starfish923
He wasn't so "saintly" to them. They probably liked him better than they liked William the Bastard.
To: starfish923
You're thinking of Edward I, son of Henry III, I believe, aka Edward Longshanks, aka Edward the Hammer of the Scots.
21 posted on
12/01/2005 8:35:56 PM PST by
wimpycat
(Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
To: starfish923
"I understand the Welsh and Scots didn't think so highly of him."
The Welsh and Scots don't think so highly of anything to do with England, except maybe for the doles so many of them gladly accept.
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