Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… clans of the Lowlands for their lack of courage as much as the Lowlanders despised them for their lack of refinement. 1 Letters and reports about Highlanders usually describe them as primitive, uneducated, poor and dirty people 2 unable to … reputation became one of rebels, Jacobites and anti-union supporters, even though this was true for only a minority. Letters and reports circulating in Scotland and England denounced the rebellious character of the Highlanders. … Unknown, ‘Memorial Concerning the State of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland‘, 1724 (Dec.), (TNA, Fol. SP 54/14/38); Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London. Containing the Description of a Capital Town …
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