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Thread #33093   Message #1214495
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
25-Jun-04 - 08:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Love's in Germanie (Silly Wizard)
Subject: RE: Origins: 'My love's in Germanie' by Silly Wizard?
The attribution to Hector MacNeil is 1794, not 1895; see earlier comments in this thread from Bruce Olson in particular.

If you're serious about getting this all straight, you need to pay attention to accuracy; and you should also bear in mind that expressions such as "fighting for English Royalty" are meaningless in this context: the Act of Union between England and Scotland was 1707, and the two countries had shared the same monarchy since the accession to the English throne of James Stewart (James I of England, James VI of Scotland from 1567) in 1603. Any good, basic history book will give you the essential details.