Proscription plaque 1746 from MacPherson Museum

[Quaich Maker]

I came across this , regarding transportation , and the death penalty

"1754, July 28. Elizabeth Canning is ordered to be transported to some of his Majesty’s American colonies, and has been delivered to the merchant who contracted with the court, to be transported accordingly. And ’tis certain that in case she be found at large in this Kingdom before the expiration of seven years, she will be liable to the pains of death."

http://www.dinsdoc.com/butler-1.htm
It records of Scots being shipped , but no specific mention of the proscription , as yet .

Just found lists of names from the mid 1600's

http://www.electricscotland.com/hist..._prisoners.htm

[Phil]

I may be wrong, but another thing about transportation, at least for some, meant that you could never return without incurring the death penalty.

Remember Magwitch in Great Expectations? Played so admirably by the great Scots actor Finlay Currie in the David Lean version!

This is an interesting site about transportation and although it mainly concerns Irish people to Australia it does cover general transportation policy. Interesting also to see how trivial some of the reasons for transportation were such as vagrancy.
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topic...n/transp1.html