Re: North American affairs

["Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@macline.co.uk>]

At 1:11 pm -0400 8/9/98, John Cowan wrote:
>Andrew Smith wrote:
.......
>> What about Jacobia?
>
>Correct.  Georgia was settled in 1733, which *there* was during
>the reign of King James III/VII, so "Jacobia" it is.

Good - at least the folks *there* won't have any excuse for confusing the
Merkian state with Georgia in the Caucasus (which takes it name from the
saint beloved of the English *here*)   ;-)

[....]
>
>I don't think MQS exists *there*; surely Mary I Tudor did not (we've
>eliminated the Tudors at least as a royal family).

Not a bad thing IMHO.  Henry VII was OK, but the rot soon set in with his
bloodthirsty & lecherous son -  who actually made Wales part of England! -
& his son's progeny, who lacked the lechery but not the bloodthirstiness.

Ray.