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Celtic-End Singer Killiecrankie:Anyone play it? (56* d) RE: Killiecrankie:Anyone play it? 28 Dec 99


A little historical perspective for tyhose of you who are interested:

In 1689 King James VII was in deep trouble in England, where his policies of religious toleration were invoking suspicion over his Catholicism. With much of the country ranged against him, he fled in 1689. The English parliament then asked his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband, William of Orange, to rule jointly. The Scottish parliament, The Estates, followed suit on condition that the Episcopal form of church government insisted upon by his father Charles II should be dropped and Scotland again became officially Presbyterian. James VII, now in exile was the last of the Stewarts and he had plenty of supporters who wanted the parliament to return to the throne. Those who supported the new cause of James found a new name applied to them- Jacobites. An attempt by John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, to raise an army in support of James in the Highlands led to an uprising which Government troops were sent to quell. The two sides clashed in the Pass of Killiecrankie. James' supporters probably came off better, but Dundee was killed in the battle and his campaign then quickly fizzled out. The '89 Jacobite rebellion was over.


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