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Thread #27027   Message #2078719
Posted By: Jack Campin
16-Jun-07 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: This Is No My Ain House (Jacobite song)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacobite rebellion song
... except in Scotland where the Tories sided with the *dis*established church.

The way the divisions played out in Scotland was generally that the Tories were the party of the landed aristocracy and the Whigs were the party of the legal elite and the urban bourgeoisie. The Kirk was reduced to passivity after the Porteous Riots of 1737; mostly they clung on to the Whigs while having repeated schisms triggered by attempts by the Tories and the English to subordinate them to the state.