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From: erek gass <egass at caribline.com>
Subject: LL-L "Labels" 2002.10.27 (03) [E]

Political terminology is always a little tight, and not always understood as
intended.  As an American (and not at all enamoured of the Anjouvins as our
friend is) who leans more to Cromwell and the last Stuarts (Mary and Anne)
than those earlier characters, I'll note that I've heard (and used) the term
"Cromwellist" to mean someone who likes the man and his actual policies as
opposed to "Cromwellian" referring more to the democratic philosophy he
embraced, but wasn't always able to achieve given the nature of some of us
those allied to him.

One thing I can't help being curious about is that the House of Hannover
(which inherited the British throne as a result of the Act of Succession
after the Glorious Revolution to assure that James and his Jacobites would
be denied the throne) was, I thought, called that till the great War against
Germany when they altered their name as a "patriotic" gesture.  What was the
other change (possibly dropping the second "n" in "Hannover"?)?

The question about "James" versus "Jacob" is an interesting one, and calls
to mind something here in York County PA a few years ago.  One of our local
newspapers did a write-up on St Jacob's Lutheran and reformed Church in
Brodbecks (by the way, my grandfather had been the Reformed minister there
for thirty years, so I had a particular interest in the article).  Included
in the article was the comment that the name "St. Jacob's" was odd in that
"Protestans don't recognise a St. Jacob".  Obviously, several of us wrote
the paper advising them to take a look at any German Bible (or "Bivvel" as
we say in Deitsch) and note that the "Epistle of James" is the "Epistle of
Jakob" in that version.

Erek Gass

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