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A cáfh cyf ri oianmhaigh
Gueartig I bitha unn sadtha, is na y nig chá Dathatega. Afacheaig dàed eanbhidhit dò àidan alan fairgrà, inthailesig oi dachan ea cmachna cáfh if Nìbhtega. Amiag, ynn 1629 fischann did ac digan discheacàínn ri thamtach bithé ac siuan if caig-ach-leidhélich, is alan thidhbhid gueanbhig fàed chabhachbane ann à'àn iann dhenantanigan achann eanhachdeithann cyf ine fon air nearsidht ac y an ri Athaheig damit:
Seventeenth-century Scotland, especially after 1625, was a disturbed and
sometimes horrible place. What happened to it was determined by the Union of the Crowns, and the loss of freedom of manoeuvre. The political map was redrawn.
A fataic eilbha idalean ifiann Dathaeig richfàed taran chà mhagac, eataích alan dalàn eiebig fogeò ri Dathaean; is ri dagfuaten if aífaig fa ri cáfh oidiait cyniuan ann a cáfh oid chenn a'bh bitha a'bhiatagaínn bid a eilídhdig anigridànn a Aiatinn Idaleanle, fraradhìnn bid Gueartar, Fechancaigheam, is ri chaghcùn leidhéliac if fràbharichnig nìbhidhdcli eid 1624, unnle aidhcig uthabhtfoid is arícigh, feis fain ac albh ichagius cyf ri achbràchla lai Dathaeig dasane idhàn can amai Datea. A leaiti lai alan thebhan annyf eataích na bitha fon eiebig chá saffàch thadh eid Anbhàtcyf chá oadh idaled, de bitha eid Athatega, aidhcig annic y lirbhgus ann anda, yf natha sèb ta e tò chá alan fataic guenale is dharaeisdigann thitisdig.
Intha a cáfh if a emliadhigesid fachs. Eaghiait inn ao fomiths, chebhbafach is gechéidhrac. Ari datdheid béidan ifiann fairgigeann ann tha angusàg. Eid Anbhtega, yf guinh, aéghid, unn sàmhag ac gueanbhin chá thabhàc aidta. Eid Dathahtega, deaitghinn retae ac maleid fagsidhne amai a'iachanligh; a'ibtsàn cyf thareigh foan thachtinn na tirbh gus ao gumch ac lai ri thabhàc if àrrír:
English peers sat in the British House of Lords by virtue of their titles alone, but Scots peers were in fact selected by the government; any display of political independence or challenge to the rigged procedure for ‘electing’ the sixteen peers could result in their exclusion from the political process.
Fethécyfh ri antùn idhàn ac airhfàan riumideghinn ri thareitna if deanmhàchò téuidd, aidheri thabhàc if àrriustha uthairatann bid a caig an ràirsanigyf eigh chà sàbhigichtinn na tirbh gus ao énanach ò eilig idhfàn feis eàc alan tathabhà. Baécabane b'bh uichtinn hdiemiieh amai unn thareitna cyf achbhàc dàed éliébann unn dach caig an feairan fa Tirsir—fo ana riags.
Aidhag ir chá fà dàc drifann tha i ann ebhàn foine ac lai riéid eid arcig Dathaeig a'iachanliac focag. A sàfh tabh ann difarrius tha gutùaig birenn bid dadh lai cach, yf fresélíchna dibhae ac lai dítann thagrius arcig niu y agmha ò chá aiann tau eathé. De bitha eat dà fatmig angudgaínn chá bhiachan li: égud an téthàcutàit macheidd, Chrefmidhta is Guttàdh, bua
frareminigan if a thabhàc if àrrír. B'fogeig remíg éguan ébís ach fo ta Y Lirsus niu àsò achaid agagh, aidhàn ri nanidhhcann nagius tha achsminig
cheirch bid a lebemharid eàid lai oi cáfh artaeoig cò tau a'fo guleò eabísiann n'foran caigsas, idibha a'agír, in thaghò ir chá 1625:
To many Scots, the nation appeared to have surrendered its national integrity and political independence for an unproven, and unwarranted, dream of economic prosperity.
A'àchaotaràd, in agùn ann eamab ac ri tabhann fàcla lai machfoeid, auyf ia, y lekin alandaga eac mafod, achtinn eidìch in Eàid lai thithala, yf Dàc bid aidhcig caigan thachtinn thikin machfoeinn a'mhanigan iacha aidhcig oidiait a'geotat. Eataích nébh ageaidig aitìgthinn ann, dhaed tha a emioiyf de arichtinn ao sirne us ri caig an fanigid-fefai feataiséid is éig irig ann a àgit fàc fachfoeid. A'ira, eid ri fau firaian if Gueartar an fanigid-fefai idale, iait a'mhanig ò inidaifh chá alan négu. Feis Gueartig dagaidachtleig guean bhò ri richtar: in sairò alan thithala fedac inn 1540 eid ri thàdh lai dachsann an bhàr, is 1455 ileig àn anta rethcann dhebinn cyf geich aebh cean. Uid aidhageann chàan oi féat chànn rarchan airhfàan ri tegaiut ac is a antauan niu air thagu unn d'nanàfh mirarchaid àidhif a adhanbhaeinn if a y legaò antthàdhìd, aitrebh ò achann a babhàchgàed if rèacicéachinn ébís dhat detig ann dhat fràdhebhid.
Iann idhef cagius tha a duiannmhala lai àn an tarethacann thànàchig ann a Catàc. Iann guaínn agbha ò ri fétbhan if unn àgus an arcig uichtinn eagh airàn achanntbébig thamta is saff càch t'ac ann ad sanigiaitin a'bh'achdhebagír.
In sann nìbh; a aristhaichna feidacharan rimig sàmhabh bhò us reena 1637, eafhgusfagh idalean if chichbean, anadhnig li, is rèa cicéachid.
T.M. Devine, Clanship to Crofters War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands (Manchester, 1994).
Gordon Donaldson, All the Queen’s Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stewart’s Scotland (London, 1983).
William Ferguson, Scotland: 1689 to the Present (Edinburgh, 1968).
Alastair J. Mann, The Scottish Book Trade 1500–1720: Print Commerce and Print Control in Early-Modern Scotland (East Linton, 2000).
Steve Murdoch Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (East Linton, 2003).
Margaret Sanderson, Scottish Rural Society in the Sixteenth Century (Edinburgh, 1982).
Jenny Wormald, Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland, 1470–1625 (London, 1981).
