Jacobites in Strathearn ( Part Two )
The defeat at Culloden however was a signal for the Hanoverian establishment led by the odious Duke of Cumberland aka “ Stinking Willie “ to carry out a campaign of virtual genocide to eradicate a culture , a people and a proud society . Much has been written regarding support for the Jacobite cause in Scotland as a whole. In Perthshire Strathearn we find much distortion of the truth mostly spun not by the English politicians but mainly by the fanatically zealous Calvanistic Presbyterians who had never hidden their hatred of the mainly Episcopalian and Catholic Jacobites . The support within Strathearn for the Jacobites was considerable mainly attributable to the fact that the Lairds of the land such as the Drummonds , Murrays and Grahams had raised considerable numbers from their territories to fight for the cause . Much of...