The Act of Proscription

[macwilkin]

We'll need to double-check the date. I've just done a quick check and I'm starting to think that it was written in 1746 to take effect in August, 1747. I'm not finding a clear distinction between the Highland Dress Act and the Disarming Act and wondering if it's different names for the same thing. I can do a fuller check tomorrow if nobody else clarifies it.

In any case we could try and tie in the whole month of July: from July 1 to celebrate the lifting of the Act to August 1 to remember the imposition of the Act.

That's what I'm trying to find out as well; it looks like your statement about the Act being written in 1746, and took effect on 1 August 1747 is correct. From what I'm reading, they are one and the same. The exemption, of course, was for any Highlander serving in the British Army.

http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/.../TartanBan.asp

http://www.medievalscotland.org/clot...hing1746.shtml

Yours Aye,

Todd

[davedove]

It looks like both years have validity. From the Scottish Tartans Authority:

"the Act of Proscription 1747 which was actually introduced in 1746 but gave the authorities a year to prise all arms from the Highland miscreants. August 1st 1747 was the 'crunch' day for the Highlanders "

I don't remember which site I got the '46 date from, but I guess they used the introduction date. Either way it's August 1.