Re: The "Auld Alliance"

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 08:32 24/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
>A follow on to Niven's comments about the French Connection.  Unless I
>am mistaken the border around the Scottish flag, the one in red and
>gold, is the bordure tressure flory counter flory is a symbol of the
>"Auld Alliance" between France and Scotland. Before there were the
>covenantors, there was a strong Roman Catholic religion in Scotland.
>According to J. D. Mackie's "History of Scotland", that after 1592, Act
>which established a Kirk structure, the Roman Church and Episcopalians
>saw a reduction in members. Before that time the Pope had a Vicar
>Apostolic and had some thirty-three clerymen (1730). In 1731, there were
>two districts, the services could be performed, though forbidden by
>law.  After 1746, is was reckoned that there were only some 16,500
>communicants distributed in Banff, Aberdeen, Inverness and Argyll and
>little evidence of Roman Catholics in the highlands. Which meant that
>the church had little force in the politics of the time.  Sally


Tomintoul which is near Braemar in the Highlands is still a strong Catholic
enclave.

The Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen, Bishop Conti, attended the Sinclair Gathering
in September last year.  The Earl and I had previously met him when the town
of Fordyce in Banffshire received its new coat-of-arms from the Lord Lyon, Sir
Malcolm Innes (whose mother was a Sinclair).

Niven


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