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Hazel
Song History
Cam Ye By
Atholl
A simple brief
thought on Scottish
Independance.

Were the outdated
union not of some very
high value to England and
the English, why would
they fight so to try to
keep it?

There are only so many
slices to a pie, for one to
have more, another must
have less.

Lastly - to those Scottish
"Loyalists" - to whom are
you loyal?
Scots royalty died in the
1700's so it can be no
Scots crown - And
certainly not it appears to
those who came before,
that bled for Scotland
and her freedom !  
In the words
of Burns, as he
wrote from the heart.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victorie.

Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power,
Chains and slaverie.

Wha would be a traitor-knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a Slave?
Let him turn and flie:

Wha for Scotland's king and law,
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Free-man stand, or free-man fa',
Let him follow me.

By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your Sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!

Lay the proud Usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us Do - or Die!!!

Choose your destiny.
The Stewart's Of Atholl
Their support for the Jacobite cause.

















During the Jacobite Risings in 1715 and 1745 the 1st
Duke and his second son
were on the government’s side, but the eldest William
and the youngest George backed the Stewart’s cause.
When their father died, James became Duke and his
brothers William and George went to exile in France.

In 1745 William came back from France with Bonnie
Prince Charlie and lifted the Stewart’s family emblem
in Glenfinnan and both of them stayed at Blair Castle.
His brother James, who was living there, left for a
while because he didn’t want to have anything to do
with that visit. Later, the government forces besieged
the castle again.

At the beginning of 1746 the third son, Lord George
Murray came back from the Jacobite Campaign in
England and when he wanted to besiege his own
home, he was called to enroll for the Battle of
Culloden. He survived, but died in exile in Holland.
His brother William died in prison in the Tower of
London.
His brother James inherited the Isle of Man from his
grandmother and with the income he got from it, he
started remodelling the castle to the Georgian Style.

James had no sons, therefore, he married his cousin
Charlotte so that the property would be in the family
and he became the 3rd Duke in 1764.
James sold the Isle of Man to the government and he
and his son got about £417,000.