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Thread #111922 Message #2364010
Posted By: Jack Campin
12-Jun-08 - 04:41 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Johnny Cope - what are 'the coals'?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Johnny Cope - what are 'the coals'?
Making the colliers into serfs was the Stuarts' idea in the first place - it started in 1603 under James I. Jacobite attitudes to thr Scottish proletariat were always much like Sandy's, they would never have attempted to rally support from them. And nobody attempted to organize them until union agitators arrived from Northumberland in the early 19th century.