Jacqueline Riding

“O’Sullivan immediately proposed that the army form into companies of fifty men each, commanded by a captain supported by one lieutenant and four sergeants. But, sadly, this ‘cou’d not be followed, they must go by tribes ; such a chife of a tribe had sixty men, another thirty, another twenty, more or lesse ; they wou’d not mix nor seperat, & wou’d have double officers, [that] is two Captns, & two Lts, to each Company, strong or weak. That’, O’Sullivan pithily observed, ‘was uselesse.’ This irregular, clan-focused arrangement was both a strength and a weakness of this embryonic army.”
― Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion

“The more radical presbyterians (known as Covenanters, derisively nicknamed ‘whiggamores’ or ‘cattle drivers’ from where the term ‘Whig’ probably derives) had refused to support the reintroduction of Episcopalianism, while many Presbyterian families (such as the Forbeses of Culloden), during the seventeenth-century civil wars, had supported the Parliamentarians against Charles I, and then Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth: as a result all had suffered greatly at the hands of Charles II and then James VII after the restoration of the monarchy.”
― Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion