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From: "Merilyn Pedrick" <>
Subject: Re: Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926- )
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:15:40 +0930 (Cen. Australia Standard Time)
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Dear James

Thankyou for your very concise explanation. Much appreciated. I could never
get my head around it at school, - we should have had you as a teacher! (of
course you would have needed to be in your prime 50 years ago).

Merilyn



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Date: 05/11/07 08:56:31

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Subject: Re: Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926- )



Dear Micheil,

As You rightly point out a Bretwalda was a Engish

(Saxon) High King, The Picts, Scots, Irish and Welsh also used roughly the
same form

of governance by which to greater or lesser degree the lesser Kings

(forerunners of nobles) obeyed , protected and gave counsel to the High King
(when

They weren`t in open rebellion and trying to gain his place for themselves).
They

had what amounted to a Constitutional Monarchy sans Constitution. As to

Scotland`s conquest by England, King Edward I took his armies there a number
of

times between 1286 and 1306. Had the Comyn family ever decided to fight and
risk

the ruin of their strong castles rather than negociate peaces largely

favorable to them and their allies, King Edward may have found a great
degree of

difficulty in enforcing his will within the realm of Scotland. Then too,
there was

that Ancient tradition (back to at least the reign of King Edward the Elder)

that the Scots monarchs submit to at least a verbal "overlordship" by the
King

of England. Plus Edward I was of Scots Royal Blood. Edward II attempted to

invade Scotland and was nearly taken prisoner by the Scots during his
campaign.

Edward III did in fact manage to conquer Scotland in 1332-1333 taking Robert

I`s son David II as a hostage (He was only a child) and replacing him with

John`s son Edward Baliol who was deposed and David II , though a prisoner
/guest

at Edward III`s court reproclaimed King. Oliver Cromwell staged a holocaust
of

Catholics and other persons loyal to King Charles II in Ireland. James II
also

had allies including the Catholic Duke of Gordon and a fight was inevitable,

The Campbells, Douglases and Hamiltons adhered to William III, but the real

bloody Conquest took place following the Battle of Cullendon in 1745-1746
when

George II of Great Britain son the Duke of Cumberland known far and wide as

Butcher Cumberland systematically descimated anyone who wore the garb of any
of

the clans, spoke gaelic or did anything that a Scot would do and a
Englishman

not. He murdered many people had many more sent as tranportees to America
and

Canada.

Sincerely,

James W Cummings

Dixmont, Maine USA







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