And I take your point, Greg Stephens (do you think we can use christian names now?), but I thought it important to make the distinction because discussions of this song almost always seem to get bogged down in misunderstandings of Scottish history. MacMillan may very well have intended to link the three situations you mentioned, and perhaps to have implied a causal continuity between them; this would however have been simplistic to the point of misrepresentation, as I'm sure you know. The trouble is that many people don't know, and I do worry about encouraging misunderstandings, which, in the case of the whole sorry Jacobite débacle and its aftermath, are already so deeply entrenched...