White Cockade

**Chas** · 8th April 11, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by Ancienne Alliance

Let's keep this thread clean and away from politics, gentlemen.

This is a place to talk about all the 'stuff' that can go with the Kilt.

If you just can't help yourself, I'm afraid I'll have to close it.

Thank you,

Robert

With all respect, Robert, how can anyone discuss the white cockade without discussing politics? It is after all a political and religious symbol. We are not discussing blue cockades, or red, or green, or saffron, or any other colour in the spectrum. We are specifically discussing white cockades.

There are members who will wear it as a fashion item and those who wear it as a statement and those who wear it because they think is Scottish and they have to wear it. But regardless of knowledge or ignorance, the wearing of the white cockade is making a political statement.

To answer the OP's question. I see the white cockade as a Jacobite symbol and a Roman Catholic symbol. I will not wear one.

Regards

Chas

**Woodsheal** · 8th April 11, 10:09 AM

I wear one when in my reenactor role as a 1745 Jacobite. I don't wear one with any present-day highland dress, as I think current "Jacobite" efforts are a tad on the silly/bizarre/bogus side.

This thread can only descend into a political morass...!

**Jack Daw** · 8th April 11, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by Woodsheal

I wear one when in my reenactor role as a 1745 Jacobite. I don't wear one with any present-day highland dress, as I think current "Jacobite" efforts are a tad on the silly/bizarre/bogus side.

This thread can only descend into a political morass...!

Ditto.

**robbiethepiper** · 8th April 11, 05:14 PM

Perhaps some of the historians on the forum might care to give authoritative opinion as to the extent Jacobism was synonymous with Catholicism? OK, Charles was Catholic, but my reading suggests that a very significant proportion of Jacobites (including many of the gentry and at least one minister) were in fact Protestant. Given a largely protestant England and a Catholic France, one can see why labelling the Jacobites as all Catholics would have been a very useful piece of propaganda for those politically opposed to them. Anyone have provable facts?