>
> It was the old question of 'dividing and ruling'.
>
> It wasn't the first time the Stuarts tried to destroy the power of the
> Sinclairs because Earl
> William Sinclair was commanded by James III to divide his huge Estates
into
> three. It
> was this division which led to three distinct groups of Sinclairs ,
> namely: those of the Islands,
> those of Caithness and those of Rosslyn.
>
without being too flippant about a serious matter, but to put it
perspective, it sounds to me that the Sinclairs were a contemporary
Microsoft.
Euan
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