Cuil Lodair's Laurence Olivier rehearses

The Government soldier above is busy learning his lines for  his debut of Laurence Olivier proportions in  "A Highland Soldier".

• Life in the Highlands was very hard with a barely subsistence level of existence, his shirt was about the only item of clothing owned and made out of linen.
• The Highlands per se stretches diagonally across Scotland from Lochranza in Arran in north easterly direction to the outskirts on the northern side of Stonehaven.
• It was basically feudal in terms. With the Clan Chief effectively owning all the land and his "Tacksman" sub-letting plots of land to the members of the clan.
• This was paid in a form of "Feu" which was still payable up until 2000 when "Feu Duty" per se was abolished.
• Clan Chiefs had the only say, and in effect their word was law! 
• The term "Jacobite" comes from the Latin (Jacob) for James! The Jacobites were followers of King James II
• This is not a war between England and Scotland, nor is it a battle between Catholic and Protestant.
• This is a form of civil war about the Monarchy.

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