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Old Apr 26, 2008, 02:36 pm   #28 (permalink) (top)
Chris the Chees
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Also, your history is wrong.
The masses certainly were, initally, against the union (though not later); but they didn't count. The only opinion that did count came from the upper orders of Scottish and English society, and they most certainly did want union and the former were directly responsible for it.


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