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A List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion: Transmitted to the Commissioners of Excise by the Several Supervisors in Scotland in Obedience to a General Letter of the 7th May, 1746, and a Supplementa
A detailed roster of 18th‑century rebellion era names and places helps you trace the Reach of 1745–46 unrest.
This companion volume to the supplementary list collects notes and identifiers that illuminate who was involved in the Rebellion in Scotland, with entries that cover who acted, where they lived, and the circumstances surrounding their actions. It offers a window into the period’s social networks, geography, and the processes used to document suspect activity.
An indexed roster of individuals labeled as rebels, with designation, abode, and parish.Contextual notes on actions, loyalties, and outcomes as recorded by local supervisors and authorities.Cross‑references to places across Scotland, from towns to rural parishes, tied to historical events of the rebellion.A dated framework showing how authorities tracked and documented suspect activity during the era. Ideal for readers of Scottish history, genealogists tracing ancestral ties, and researchers interested in 18th‑century governance and rebellion dynamics.
This companion volume to the supplementary list collects notes and identifiers that illuminate who was involved in the Rebellion in Scotland, with entries that cover who acted, where they lived, and the circumstances surrounding their actions. It offers a window into the period’s social networks, geography, and the processes used to document suspect activity.
An indexed roster of individuals labeled as rebels, with designation, abode, and parish.Contextual notes on actions, loyalties, and outcomes as recorded by local supervisors and authorities.Cross‑references to places across Scotland, from towns to rural parishes, tied to historical events of the rebellion.A dated framework showing how authorities tracked and documented suspect activity during the era. Ideal for readers of Scottish history, genealogists tracing ancestral ties, and researchers interested in 18th‑century governance and rebellion dynamics.
454 pages, Hardcover
Published August 24, 2018
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May 27, 2021
This is quite a book.
Having grown up with stories of Culloden and the aftermath, it’s interesting to find this book and read it with the distance of time and other sources.
The world of the clans was already in turmoil, following Glencoe, the 1713 Malt Tax, and the Disarming Acts of 1716 and 1725.
Explosive conflict was going happen.
The feudal world of the Highlands contrasts strongly with the industrialists in the south.
For the new world order from the South, the commercial opportunities were immense. For the clans, the consequences of the Heritable Jurisdictions Act 1746 were severe. With the 1746 Act of Proscription, the chiefs were stripped of position and legal influence and had become terrorists in their own lands, which were now being folded into this new world of the industrialists.
The defeated clans were indebted, barred from having weaponry, their tartan, their pipes - via the Dress Act of 1746 and ruthless enforcement of the Disarming Act of 1725.
As a result, an agricultural living was no longer sustainable and the lands were effectively cleared. The Highland clearances and exodus began.
Following a 100 years of economic suffocation, It could be read as a final death blow.
Ironically the agricultural versus industry conflict would be played out again, a hundred years later, in the New World where these Scots fled to.
Reading the appendices, only raises more questions, if you read the names involved, there were so few.
Having grown up with stories of Culloden and the aftermath, it’s interesting to find this book and read it with the distance of time and other sources.
The world of the clans was already in turmoil, following Glencoe, the 1713 Malt Tax, and the Disarming Acts of 1716 and 1725.
Explosive conflict was going happen.
The feudal world of the Highlands contrasts strongly with the industrialists in the south.
For the new world order from the South, the commercial opportunities were immense. For the clans, the consequences of the Heritable Jurisdictions Act 1746 were severe. With the 1746 Act of Proscription, the chiefs were stripped of position and legal influence and had become terrorists in their own lands, which were now being folded into this new world of the industrialists.
The defeated clans were indebted, barred from having weaponry, their tartan, their pipes - via the Dress Act of 1746 and ruthless enforcement of the Disarming Act of 1725.
As a result, an agricultural living was no longer sustainable and the lands were effectively cleared. The Highland clearances and exodus began.
Following a 100 years of economic suffocation, It could be read as a final death blow.
Ironically the agricultural versus industry conflict would be played out again, a hundred years later, in the New World where these Scots fled to.
Reading the appendices, only raises more questions, if you read the names involved, there were so few.
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