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The Birtwhistles of Craven and Galloway
Figure 5 Remains of the drovers’s inn on Malham Great Close
Partly because of the flowery language, some researchers have questioned whether the account of John Birtwhistle being in the Hebrides at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion was a piece of romantic fiction. Was it perhaps more likely that, like other drovers, John Birtwhistle purchased cattle in Falkirk, confiscated from the clans by the Duke of Cumberland’s troops, and sold to drovers at knock down prices? We have already seen that John Birtwhistle was in Falkirk before the Jacobite Rebellion
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