Quote Originally Posted by iustus View Post
The White Cockade.

This is a question firstly for those who wear a White Cockade, but also for those with something to say on the matter in general.

How do you wear it? On Bonnet, Jacket etc. - Bonnet, in place of cap-badge

How did you come to have one? Make it? Receive it? Purchase it? - Bought, as my sewing skills are less than minimal

Why do you wear a White Cockade? - To advertise that I strongly believe in Scottish indepence from the westminster government and the Hanoverian dynasty

What does wearing a White Cockade mean for you? - A symbol of freedom

What has been the response of people to your wearing it? In SCT, CAN, ENG, US etc. - Positive, though few other than like-minded people reconise the significance (ENG & SCT)

Some specific questions:

Do you find there is a connection with a contemporary Nationalist movement? Or Movement in the 20th cent? - Yes, though rarely official

Historically:
Did the English Jacobites/Non-jurors also wear a white cockade? (Here I realize the clerics and perhaps Gov. administrators were most visible in not swearing the oath.) - One for the historians!

Was there a French Tradition of a White Cockade connected with the Jacobite perspective? (I believe there was a tradition of a White Cockade distinct from the Stewart connotation.) - I'll leave this one for Robert

Thank you kindly for you responses. I will also post after a while, when I can get back around.

Peace.
Justin