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Hazel
Song History
Come Ower The
Stream
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Were the outdated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.
One Jacobean songs asking for the return of their
prince following the disaster that was Drumossie Moor.















The King over the Water, the toast raised to James
Stuart (above) by his Jacobite supporters, and latterly
his son Charles tells the story of the man who so
nearly became Britain's longest-reigning king. Instead,
the talented, cultured though disappointed man that
was James Stuart is best known as the Old Pretender.
The exhibition follows James Stuart's turbulent life and
constantly changing fortunes as he moved like a piece
on the political chessboard of eighteenth-century
Europe. James and his family sat to the greatest
painters of their day, as a central ingredient of their
long campaign of political propaganda, maintained
from 1689 until the late 1740s. It was vital for them that
James's regal image be ubiquitous, and that he was
seen to resemble both of his parents – to dispel the
Whigs' 'warming-pan myth' that he was a surrogate
child.


James Francis Edward Stuart was a king without a
throne: the uncrowned heir of King James VII and II.
His birth in 1688 plunged Britain into crisis for it
seemed inevitable that the infant Prince would be
brought up a Roman Catholic and would want to
impose his religion on his fellow-countrymen.

To prevent that, William of Orange led a Protestant
coup d’état – the Glorious Revolution – causing the
royal family and their chief advisors to escape to
safety in France. In 1701 – exactly 300 years ago – the
Act of Settlement was passed, preventing James from
acceding to the throne that year.

For two decades the Jacobite court, in exile near
Versailles, employed the same portrait painters as the
court of France, including Pierre Mignard, Nicholas de
Largillière, François de Troy, and Alexis-Simon Belle.
After their move to Rome the family had access to the
greatest Italian portraitists, including Antonio David,
Francesco Trevisani, Louis-Gabriel Blanchet and
Rosalba Carriera. These oil paintings were
disseminated as engravings and medals, which went
into mass circulation in both England and Scotland.