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Can anyone tell me...

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 7:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
I have an a yet-unconfirmed finding for a potential ancestor, 1690s, who was found guilty of "raising a pamphlet against the king". and ordered "to be put to the horn." I understand the first bit, but can anyone tell me what it means to be 'put to the horn.'? I'm baffled; does it mean banished to South Africa or something of the ilk?. Any suggestions appreciated

Re: Can anyone tell me...

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 8:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
Nothing that dramatic really. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_horning

M.

Re: Can anyone tell me... "put to the horn"

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:52AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Mark,

Sometimes I get good, internet .hits. at 5 am, and, I just tried. I see someone already found this web site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_horning

I see the definition also mentioned at this web site:

http://www.armstrong.org/TermsDefined.htm

.. Here's an interesting, Biblical definition which also mentions the above:


http://www.bartleby.com/81/8465.html

Also mentioned, briefly, here:

http://www.ccsna.org/jsep55.htm

Here's a web site I don't remember seeing mentioned before:

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/28361...


and this one:
http://www.talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=57...


Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)

(5 am New England time)

(on Lists and Boards for 12 yrs.; now an Admin for 11 Lists and 5 Boards)


(researching the marriage in Glasgow of William HANNAH and Eliza RITCHIE in
Dec. 1854 / Jan. 1855 (I've seen the record). Both William and Eliza were born
in Co. Donegal during 1830's. The couple had 2 daughters in Glasgow,
and then migrated to Boston, MA, in the summer of 1857.)


Re: Can anyone tell me...

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 9:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for that folks.

Re: Can anyone tell me... Further ...

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 8:52AM GMT
Classification: Query
Following up with this ist seems to me that there is a connotation that these people are being outlawed, is this correct?

Re: Can anyone tell me... Further ...

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 10:36AM GMT
Classification: Query
Mark,

my understanding is that yes, they are publicly decreed as outlaws. not sure how much that would have hindered them in some areas of Scotland though. :)

M.

Re: Can anyone tell me... Further ...

Posted: 10 Apr 2015 2:58AM GMT
Classification: Query
perhaps more of a public shaming

Re: Can anyone tell me... Further ...

Posted: 10 Apr 2015 3:31AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 10 Apr 2015 3:31AM GMT
Still nor sure. Found out the couple were executed at the Edinburgh Barracks 3 months after the letter of horning; though haven't been able to discover why. Perhaps the 2 were somehow connected
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