Lis-linkers who remember the MacMc filing rules, and made jokes with neophytes about MacHinery might have been amused by last nites broadcasters on Radio 3 around Handel#s Judas MacAbeus. They combined Jacobitism, the Hanovarians, Judea, Culloden and Cumberland in such a way that the potential irony became unescapable. Just whose side was Handel on?
And this explained to me two perplexing matters which have puzzled me for a long time, why did Cobham of Stowe become a Field Marshall, having had his regiment removed from him by Walpole, and why did Burlington become a KG?
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