The Traitors Roll

Scots have long regarded themselves as 'the salt of the earth'. This is the common person's view of themselves and no wonder when her leaders were willing to sell themselves and those who looked to them for leadership so cheaply. Scotland must surely be the only country in the world to sell her freedom. The following is a list of payments made by the English to the Scots so called nobles and to whom each payment was made.

The burial stone of heart of The Bruce's heart.

He paid for our freedom.

I feel it is poetic Justice that
the lowest payment
made here was to Lord Banff
and that the leader of the SNP,
(fighting for Scottish Independence)
Alex Salmod is the MP for Banff and Buchan.
This information was published in
'The Scot's Independent", the oldest political
newspaper in the world

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  • Earl of Marchmont ........£1104. 15/7
  • Earl of Crommarty .........£ 300.00
  • Lord Prestonhall ............£ 200. 00
  • Lord Ormiston ................£ 200. 00
  • Duke of Montrose............£ 200. 00
  • Duke of Athole ................£ 1000.00
  • Earl of Balcarres...............£ 500.00
  • Lord Anstruther ...............£ 300. 00
  • Earl of Dunsmore .............£ 200.00
  • Stewart of Stewart Castle £ 300. 00
  • The Earl of Eaglington ... £ 200. 00
  • Lord Fraser .....................£ 4504.15/7
  • Lord Cessnock.................£ 50. 00
  • John Campbell .................£ 200. 00
  • Earl of Forfar....................£ 100. 00
  • Sir Kenneth McKenzie ......£ 100. 00
  • Earl of Glencairn ...............£ 100. 00
  • Earl of Kintyre ...................£ 200. 00
  • Earl of Findlater ................£ 100. 00
  • John Muir Provost of Air .. £ 100. 00
  • Lord Forbes ......................£ 50.00
  • Earl of Seafiald ..................£ 490.00
  • Marquis of Tweeddale ........£ 1000. 00
  • Duke of Roxburgh ....... £ 500. 00
  • Lord Elibank .....................£ 50.00
  • Lord Banff........................ £ 11.2/-
  • Cunningham of Eckatt ......£ 100. 00
  • Bearer of The Treaty ........£ 60. 00
  • Sir William Sharpe .............£ 300.00
  • Coultrain Provost of Wigton .£25. 00
  • Alexander Wedderburn .....£ 75.00
  • Lord Queensberry ..............£ 12325.00

    • I recently recieved this email from the original contributor to The SI and I would like to thank him for taking the time and trouble to screive me. John can be reached here if you have any further questions. And http://www.elmsella.demon.co.uk has a non romantic view of Scottish History... read its a warts an aw account and a hellofalot more accurate than rubbish like the film Braveheart.

    " Some years ago I wrote a letter to the Scot's Independent highlighting the "Rogues in a Nation" naming and shaming them as it were. I thought you might like to know where I got the information from?

    Around 1992 I had found an original copy of a booklet printed by Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh on behalf of Edmoston and Company. Edinburgh in 1878.

    I was intrigued by the authors name on the front cover of the book, " By X" . Over the years I wondered who the author / authors could be. In 1878 it had to be one of the wealthier families who had resisted the Act of Union. I now have my suspicions who it may have been.

    I attach a file showing the front cover of the booklet in question.

    Yours aye,

    John.

    My old guest buik

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