This book I found in a charity shop provides great context to #Lockhart's memoirs of the #Union and the people involved.

The 4th Duke of Hamilton was a right two-faced slimeball. He had a legitimate claim to the throne of #Scotland, but when he realised no-one would support it he decided the Union was his next best option (lots of land in England). He betrayed his Jacobite friends many times over but managed to keep stringing them along.

#ParcelOfRogues #History #villains #DissolveTheUnion

"Did not the Earl of Ilay in all companies make it his publick and constant toast, and write inscriptions on the glasses in the taverns of Edinburgh, 'To the dissolving of the Union'?

Did not all the Scots members, Whigs as well as Tories, agree unanimously to the motion which was made in the House of Lords for dissolving it?"

Our Precious Union has always been a political prison.

#Lockhart #18thCentury #history #DissolveTheUnion #EndLondonRule #ScottishIndependence

Apposite #Lockhart:

"in these latter days differences of religion came into play, which stirred up the consciences of some, and were a fair pretence to carry on and cover the ambitious and selfish designs of others. Of which Queen Elizabeth taking advantage, so fomented and encouraged these divisions (by supporting the weaker party and keeping contenders in as equal power as possible that they might destroy one another) that the nation was totally divided and at odds."

#DivideAndConquer

"And so the Union commenced on the first of May 1707, a day never to be forgot by #Scotland. A day on which the Scots were stripped of what their predecessors had maintained for many hundred years - I mean the independency and soveraignty of the kingdom. Both which the Earl of Seafield so little valued... he returned it to the clerk in the face of Parliament with this despising and contemning remark:

'now there's ane end of ane old song.'"

#Lockhart #traitors #villains #ScottishIndependence

The Astonishing Transformation of Austin

"Refugees from Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and New York are stampeding into the city, with outsized power to shape its future."

"My town, once celebrated for its laid-back weirdness, is now a turbocharged tech megalopolis being shaped by exiles from places like Silicon Valley."

#Austin #Lockhart #Texas #AustinFC #UT #Dell #Tesla #ElonMusk #RichardLinklater #WakingLife #AlexJones

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-astonishing-transformation-of-austin

"An act was framed and passed in Parliament, but withal so imperious and haughty that the like treatment was never given by one nation to another. For in the very act itself they direct the Scots Parliament after what manner the Scots commissioners were to be chosen...

And further to frighten the #Scots into compliance, they declare all Scotsmen to be aliens and incapable to enjoy the liberties and privileges of Englishmen,..."

#Lockhart on how #OurPreciousUnion came to be. Voluntary my arse

"John, Earl of Stair, was the origine and principal instrument of all the misfortunes that befel either the king or the kingdom of #Scotland...

It was he that, to secure his court interest in King William's time, contrived, and was the author of, the barbarous murder of #Glencoe...

It was he that first suffered, I should rather say, taught and encouraged, England arbitrarily and avowedly to rule over Scots affairs, invade her freedom and ruin her trade."

#ParcelOfRogues #Lockhart #villains

Crazy story from #Lockhart's memoirs:

Simon Frazer of Beaufort was sentenced to death for raping the sister of the Duke of Athol. He fled to France where he inveigled money out of the French king and got James 'VIII' the Old Pretender to make him a major general, then returned to #Scotland with a free pass from the Duke of Queensberry (working for England) so he could go around trying to implicate people in a Jacobite plot when there wasn't one. He ended up in the #Bastille.

#villains

#Lockhart on George, Viscount of Tarbat & Earl of Cromarty

"'Some do compare him to an eel
should mortal man be made of steel'

...never was there a more fickle, unsteady man in the world. He had sworn all the contradictory oaths, complyed with all the opposite governments that had been on foot since the year 1648, and was a servant to them all till he got what he aimed at, though often he did not know what that was." 😆

#Unionist #traitor #ProudScot #HistoryScotland #EndLondonRule

#Lockhart on James, Duke of Queensberry:

"Having thus made his first appearance in the world by deserting his king and benefactor, we are not to expect he will prove more faithful to his country - and had he deserted her, as he did the former, it would have been happy for us - but, alas, he stuck close by her and never left her, til he had ruined her to all intents and purposes, having undertaken and promoted every proposal and scheme for enslaving Scotland..."

#traitors #EndLondonRule

The Scottish Commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union were all appointed by London. #Lockhart of #Carnwath was the only one opposed to it. When he got into Westminster he uncovered the intimidation and bribery that had gone on, and tried to get the Act of Union repealed.

His memoirs could have got him killed when they leaked. He did time in jail for fomenting violence and died from injuries sustained in a duel.

#legend
#EndLondonRule #DissolveTheUnion #ScottishIndependence #history

#Lockhart #ScottishAncestors #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NorthCarolina #Farmers
https://mstdn.social/@saytata/109655700384402419

A colleague is asking about a biography that included an anecdote John Gibson #Lockhart used to tell about Walter #Scott. It was something like a visitor came to see Scott, and saw the author himself through a window, but only saw his hand (writing)? Anyone remember where this story is related? @scotlit @bookstodon #ScottishStudies

Raul Rene Gonzalez in Harper’s https://martyspellerberg.com/2022/12/raul-rene-gonzalez-in-harpers/ #art #gallery #Lockhart

Super Fujica-6 • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2022

Little Trouble • Lockhart, TX

#TriX #film #camera #120film #MediumFormat #Fujica #BWfilm #photography #LittleTrouble #Lockhart #Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93tgU1sIPY4

Imbarazzo in senato: esterno s'introduce al comizio e fa partire un video hentai di Tifa, celebre eroina di Final Fantasy 7.

#tifa #lockhart #imbarazzo #video #pornografia #interruzione #violazione #senato #politica #incidente