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	The Old Scots Navy from 1689 to 1710
		In the legislation of the Scots Parliaments of 1493 and 1503 requiring all sea-board burghs to keep ' busches ' of 20 tons to be manned by idle able-bodied men, James and the Estates had not only the improvement of the fisheries in view, but the manning of the mercantile marine and the navy.
		Though only measure germane to the question of a Scots Navy in the ordinary acceptation of the term, the origins of the ancient office of Lord High Admiral of Scotland, and the civil and criminal jurisdiction associated with it, may be mentioned.
		The jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court was ratified by the Scots Parliaments of 1609 and 1681.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/navy/intro.htm (4706 words)

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		The Old English, though harboring grievances of their own, had significantly more to lose and were far more reluctant to take up arms against the crown.
		The fate of the insurrection hung upon the attitude of the Old English, and especially upon the Roman Catholic lords and gentry of the Pale.
		The Old English found themselves cut off, lost in a sea of disorder, without even a voice to be heard; and in October they set up their own rival assembly, which came to be known as the Confederation of Kilkenny.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/ilv/reb1641.htm (1743 words)

	Colonial Williamsburg Journal
		Mason was a strong backer of the Virginia navy, which was being debated at the Convention in Williamsburg.
		Like the new Continental Navy, Virginia's fleet was a hodgepodge of vessels, some enlisted from coastal trade, a few captured, many built beside the forests of oaks growing straight and tall around the bay.
		The Virginia navy licked its wounds and cleaned up those of its vessels that had escaped by being deliberately sunk, far up the rivers and creeks.
	www.history.org /foundation/journal/Spring02/navy.cfm (2707 words)

	Royal Scots Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Scots Navy (or Old Scots Navy) was the navy of the Kingdom of Scotland from its foundation in the 11th century until its merger with England's Royal Navy per the Acts of Union 1707.
		The chief coadjutors, however, of James III and James IV in building up the Scots navy were not dignitaries of the Church, but the merchant skippers of Leith; Sir Andrew Wood of Largo, John Barton and his sons Andrew, Robert and John, and William Brounhill.
		In the legislation of the Scots Parliaments of 1493 and 1503 requiring all sea-board burghs to keep "busches" of 20 tons to be manned by idle able-bodied men, James and the Estates had not only the improvement of the fisheries in view, but the manning of the mercantile marine and the navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Scottish_Navy (1815 words)

	Pants/Bell-Bottoms US Navy Uniform
		The desire to retain the distinction of the Navy uniform was one of the reasons for proposing retention of the white hat.
		However, there are still many old salts, and some of the younger ones too, who prefer the 13-button style with an almost fanatical devotion, and who deplore the day when they will have to be replaced with the new trousers.
		Navy blue denim dungaree slacks and blue cotton chambray shirts may be designated for Women's Reservists when the nature of their work requires protective covering, under latest uniform changes announced 25 January 1944 by the Chief of Naval Personnel in a letter to all continental shore stations (Pers.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/uniform_bell.htm (5983 words)

	Scotland: Famous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She later emigrated to North Carolina and was active recruiting Scots to fight for the British in the American War of Independence.
		Born in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, he was a pioneer of Tropical Medicine, developing it as a distinct field of study.
		As headmaster of the Old High School of Edinburgh, he was an early advocate of compulsory education.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/greatscots.html (6448 words)

	Red Ensign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until 1864, the Red Ensign was also the principal ensign of the Royal Navy, and as such it was worn by ships of the Red Squadron of the navy, as well as by those warships that were not assigned to any squadron (i.e., those sailing under independent command).
		Many in the Admiralty felt that the Royal Navy's use of three separate ensigns (i.e., the red, white, and blue) was outdated and confusing.
		The government, led by republican James Barry Munnik Hertzog sponsored a contest to choose a new banner based on the old Prinsevlag horizontal tricolour was chosen in 1927, and became the official flag in 1928.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Ensign (1803 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		The earliest example of original Scots prose came from the pen of John Ireland, theologian, writer and diplomat, known as Johannes de Irlandia, though he was first educated at St. Andrew's.
		James, King of Scots from 1406 to 1437, was the son of the poor disabled cripple Robert III, who had left the governing of his country to his brother, the Duke of Albany.
		He emerged as one of the most effective monarchs in the history of his poor country; winning the loyalty of the old nobility (mainly through cajolery and skillful handling of patronage and its many attractive benefits) and by raising a new class of middle men to office.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/ij1.html (3592 words)

	Questions About Anglo
		In the Old English period, scholars have compiled lists of only 183 words from the Continental period, another 114 for the next 200 years (450-650 A. D.) and a further 244 from A.D. 650 to the Norman Conquest in 1066.
		Old Saxon made no permanent mark on Anglo-Saxon and, when the words were borrowed, they were thought to be foreign.
		In Old English, the human body was described as a bone-house (banhus) and a bone-coffer (bancofa).
	www.wvup.edu /Academics/humanities/Oldaker/questions_about_anglo.htm (5249 words)

	History of Leith, Edinburgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Unicorn was introduced as the emblem of Scotland by James I. Above is seen the Royal Arms of James V the father of Mary, Queen of Scots.
		The Death Mask of Mary, Queen of Scots is now at Lennoxlove which is the seat of the Hamilton Family.
		The Landing of Mary, Queen of Scots at Leith in 1561
	www.leithhistory.co.uk (250 words)

	Dining In/Dining Out
		"Its roots are embedded in the old monasteries where monks, who followed a most rigid regimen, had their form of dining-in as an integral form of monastic life." As educators, the clergy spread the custom to the academies and universities.
		The Navy Department Historian, Gordon Bowen-Hassell, suggests that due to the arduous nature and length of the cruises during the 1800's, the crews virtually disbanded upon final arrival in the United States.
		Again, the Admiral relied on the British tradition, noting that Navies of the Commonwealth "maintain consistently the highest formal officer mess standards of the maritime countries." His appendix entitled "Dining in the Royal Canadian Naval Mess," cites specific rules of the mess while discussing the proper grace to be said and protocol for toasting.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq89-1.htm (2043 words)

	Q&A: James Webb; former Secretary of the Navy \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		He was an assistant secretary of defense and later secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration.
		It's thin; the Navy, the Army and the Marine Corps.
		But what you're seeing right now with the Navy in my view is it needs some better advocates to really argue about the strategic issues, which is where the Navy is the strongest.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051030/news_mz1e30webb.html (2496 words)

	Wall Street Journal Articles
		The Scots who headed into the feuds of 17th-century Ulster, and then into the backlands of the American frontier, hardened further into a radicalism that proclaimed that no man had a duty to obey a government if its edicts violated his moral conscience.
		Matched with this rebelliousness was a network of extended family "clans," still evident among the Scots-Irish, built on an egalitarianism that measured a person by their own code of honor, courage, loyalty and audacious leadership.
		Webb, a former secretary of the Navy, is the author of "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," just published by Broadway.
	www.jameswebb.com /articles/wallstjrnl/scotsirishvote.htm (1390 words)

	Rules for Old Men Waiting
		This easy marriage of sorrow and good sense is part of what makes the old Scot such a fine companion; so, too, does it define the beauty of the tough-minded novel that delivers him.
		First lines of novels are not always telling, but this one is: "The house and the old man were well matched, both large framed and failing fast." It is the staunch, funny and dead-on voice of someone you can trust, that "failing" the only polysyllabic word in the bunch.
		MacIver is looking for a story to contain his fury - "Steal a march on the random images that invade you," he instructs himself - and so it is that he begins to compose a war story, drawn from his knowledge of the trenches in France and his intimacy with combat of all kinds.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/04/28/features/bookfri.php (784 words)

	Military.com Content
		All the highest ranks in the Navy -- rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral of the Navy -- were created for just one man, the inimitable David Glasgow Farragut, hero of the Battle of Mobile Bay and other sea encounters.
		Farragut's rise to the post of admiral in 1866 was the crowning moment in a career that began before he was a teenager and lasted for more than five decades.
		For his accomplishments, on July 16 of that year he was made the first rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_farragut_bkp (429 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Independence may work for Scotland, says First Minister
		Ideologically the Scots' politics are insync with its Nordic nieghbours and those on the mainland of Europe.
		Scots became great administrators for the empire as more Scots actually could read and write than English becaise of the Protestant reformation and Scottish education system the effect of that was also the Scottish enlightenment.
		It's also worth recalling that the role played by Scots in settlement and administration was concentrated in the 19th century, not in the 18th.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=953332006 (4358 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Seagoing Castle is back in the Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The current Dumbarton Castle is the third ship in the Royal Navy to bear the name.
		The first was a sixth-rate frigate, originally of the Scots Navy but added to the list of the Royal Navy in 1707.
		The second was a Castle-class corvette, built in Dundee in 1944, which spent much of her service in the North Atlantic hunting U-boats, going into reserve in 1946 and being scrapped.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2004/0409/0004090702.asp (338 words)

	The Navy at Work
		At the beginning of World War II, the Royal Navy was considered to be the finest of its kind.
		The government set up several degaussing inspection stations around the country; one was in Harwich on the southeast coast but it was too close to the enemy, as were some of the others.
		Whenever signallers on board the ships that we were testing for degaussing errors noticed that the slender shapes in heavy blue serge sweaters and warm navy slacks were women, then their messages took on a decidedly non-naval tone.
	www.seniornet.org /ww2/gallery/memories/foley/navyatwork.html (3219 words)

	Letter to the Editor - Scots vs. Irish
		The Irish you speak of were almost entirely Ulster Scots Presbyterians with virtually nothing in common with the Catholic Irish.
		Many of the Ulster Scots were there only a few years before moving on to America in the 18th Century.
		The 10 were Scots and 8 of those were Ulster Scots.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Newsletters/1995/April95-1.htm (558 words)

	Q&A with Arthur Herman on National Review Online
		Their Royal Navy was once a fearsome fighting force — but it was also a force for peace, a "Pax Britannica" that is best understood as an early vehicle of globalization.
		Yet even with Nelson dead, the Royal Navy's other admirals and captains, men who never became as famous but who were just as skilled and dedicated, got on with the job of defeating Napoleon and America in the War of 1812 just fine without him.
		The Royal Navy was always a navy of adolescents and post-adolescents — even up to World War Two it was usual for a cadet to enter Dartmouth Naval College at fourteen or fifteen.
	www.nationalreview.com /interrogatory/qa200501060730.asp (1540 words)

	America's Celtic Warrior Roots by R. Cort Kirkwood - HUMAN EVENTS
		Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America is Webb's affectionate tale about the long trek across time, the ocean and the land, by which the cultural and religious treasures of this hardy people came to dominate a new nation.
		Religion aside, "the typical lowland Scot," Webb writes, "was bound to a complicated set of loyalties to his clan and willing to serve his laird, but he answered in his honor to no one." Above all he valued family and martial valor.
		These were the hardscrabble characters who, weary of the turmoil in Ulster, left in groups of families and landed in four great waves from the 1720s to 1775.
	www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=6027 (2004 words)

	Scots Greys
		In common with the rest of the troops, the Scots Greys suffered all the discomforts of mud, rain, soaked clothing and sodden provisions, before the battle of Waterloo.
		They took up their position on that eventful day behind the left centre of the line, and they were obliged to wait for a long time in chafing inactivity.
		Some of the troops composing the attacking force were Napoleon's Foot Guards, great, big, strapping fellows, hardy old campaigners most of them, who had been with their hitherto invincible leader in numberless battles.
	www.war-art.com /scots_greys.htm (2530 words)

	The Old Foodie: Through the Ages with Gingerbread.
		The language gets easier as you go along, although old recipes are rarely as easy to understand as we expect nowadays.
		I have no idea how old they are, only that they are very good.
		From Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, The Old Foodie gives you 400 words each weekday on a topic related to the day, plus a historic recipe, and sometimes a menu.
	theoldfoodie.blogspot.com /2006/12/through-ages-with-gingerbread.html (3132 words)

	H M Frigate Unicorn – Installation of textile weather covering – Mon/Tue 12/13 Dec 05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A sailing frigate was a powerful cruising vessel, heavily armed, fast and a favourite command in Nelson's time, and Unicorn would have been one of the elite ships of the fleet in her day.
		This was the start of a long period of peace and she was not required for immediate service: she was not rigged, but instead her hull was roofed over and she was put into reserve.
		Unicorns are the heraldic supporters of the Scottish Royal Arms, and an earlier Unicorn was the flagship of the old Scots navy.
	www.nhsc.org.uk /news/unicorn.cfm (875 words)

	CCC - War Against Iraq: The British Invasion of 1941
		But the government of the 4-year old King of Iraq, directed by his uncle who served as Regent, proved too feeble to surmount the opposition of pro-Italian Prime Minister Rashid Ali el Gailani, a lawyer and co-founder of the Muslim Brotherhood whose cells were active throughout the Middle East.
		Following the Fall of France in June 1940, the entry of Italy into the war, and the RAF's victory in the subsequent Battle of Britain, the focus of the war between Great Britain and the European Axis had shifted to the Eastern Mediterranean.
		And while Britain enjoyed strengths there, most notably the Royal Navy based in Alexandria, its major vulnerability resided in the political volatility of a region that London feared was ripe for Axis exploitation.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /rsepResources/si/dec02/middleEast.asp (3508 words)

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		Old vertical fold mark down center of pamphlet, outer half of back wrapper lacking, else a clean copy in an excellent state of preservation.
		This is the truly imposing story of the origins of that extra-accurate timepiece and its early development.
		Organizing the Royal Navy in the buildup to WW I. Navy Records Society.
	www.tenpound.com /153/51.html (2192 words)

	Royal Navy Books with UKshelf.com
		In Peril on the Sea: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic --- Â£14.72
		The Royal Navy at Portland: 1900-2000 --- Â£14.95
		Royal Navy in America, 1760-75: Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution --- Â£8.95
	www.hlebooks.com /UKSHELF/MARINE/roynavy.htm (1218 words)

	Amazon.com: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 2nd part is the Diaspora of the Scots due to the 'clearances' or 'famines' and other reasons and their migrational impact and contributions to other societies.
		The Scots certainly did not invent the modern world on their lonesome or at least not "everything in it." As I began the book though I found that it was actually fairly balanced and the title is misleading.
		More about the Scots than most would ever want to know...Jewels of wisdom and insight, many in number, are contained herein, but finding them, at times, can be a difficult read...at other times, a thoroughly delighful read.
	www.amazon.com /How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/0609606352 (2539 words)

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