Proscription plaque 1746 from MacPherson Museum

[Riverkilt]

Thank you sir for the link.

I have printed a copy and plan to attach it to the outer door to my office tomorrow. Alas, I still await a decision from management despite thorough documentation of the benefits of wearing kilts in multiple areas.

Perhaps this will help drive the history home.

Ron

[ccga3359]

I have printed a copy and plan to attach it to the outer door to my office tomorrow.

Ron

You're a scoundrel Ron, you know you are!

[Archangel]

I'm still looking in my books for more info but can't find any solid info. I have note from university history courses but they're in the box. What I did find was that the immigration in the mid 1700 was about 20% Scots. They were generally unwelcome and didn't make good servants, go figure.
Once England has more control, later in the century, the numbers are more specific but that's not the period you're asking about.

One of the things that Scotland did not want was anybody checking the ships that came or went. This is one of the economic reasons for the wars. Scotland made significant money through ships avoiding British tariffs. One of the results of the war was the ability to impose heavier tariffs for all shipping. This, of course, lead to the American War of Independence, or Revolutionary War, depending on your perspective.

The basic tartan books give good information but they're not authoritative. Let's see what other's come up with.

[Peter C.]

It is worrying to think a clan museum knows so little about Scottish national dress as far as the sgian dubh is concerned. I don't think I would want them to teach me about my heritage, I wouldn't know whether the information was accurate or not.

Peter

[sirdaniel1975]

It is worrying to think a clan museum knows so little about Scottish national dress as far as the sgian dubh is concerned. I don't think I would want them to teach me about my heritage, I wouldn't know whether the information was accurate or not.

Peter

I know what you mean...

from: http://www.sonasmor.net/Panel003.html

The two clansmen standing at the side of the shield are known as 'supporters' in heraldic terms. They are dressed as they may have appeared at the famous Battle of the Shirts or Blàr-na-Leine in 1544 between the Camerons and MacDonalds vs the Frasers. Because of the extremely hot weather that day, the combatants cast aside their belted plaids and fought in just their shirts and jerkins. It was the style of that day in the Highlands to tie the shirt tails between their thighs.

I thought 1594 was the earliest documentation of the "belted plaid?" Some things you just have to take as a grain of salt.