Proscription Act Repealed

[macwilkin]

I've forgotten the name (and the patron) of the piper (the drawing's based upon a contemporary portrait), but he was Loyalist. More Scots fought for the Crown than Prince Charlie.

I'd observe that the second illustration clearly shows a piper wearing Government tartan and a red coat, as well, and that's undeniably the Union Jack carried by those redcoats in the lower left corner...

It's actually an imagine of one of the "mutineers" of the Black Watch, Donald MacDonald, from the mutiny of the regiment in 1743. One version of the image comes from Francis Grose's* Military Antiquitaries. See Stuart Reid's 18th Century Highlanders.

The second illustration is of a piper of the 77th Highlanders in the French & Indian War, which was part of the force sent to attack Ft. Duquense in 1758 with General Edward Braddock. The artist is Robert Griffing:

http://www.paramountpress.com/majgranpip.html

Cheers,

Todd



*Grose, as some of you may remember, was the one who commissioned Burns to write a poem to accompany a drawing of Alloway Kirk...and thus Tam O'Shanter was born.

[pipesndrumsnun]

Listening to me practice on the chanter is an injurious fate, no doubt!!