. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. ent trembled at the figure of tartan or shape of a garb which the Caledonians had worn from the earliest ages of their nation—thegarb to which they were attached by the affection which is natural towards the peculiar-ities of ones native country, and for the objects to which one has been habituated fromhis earliest years—was prohibited, both as to stuff and shape ; and, of course, a stop putto almost the only species of manufacture in the country. To wear a philibeg of any sort, or a coat
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. ent trembled at the figure of tartan or shape of a garb which the Caledonians had worn from the earliest ages of their nation—thegarb to which they were attached by the affection which is natural towards the peculiar-ities of ones native country, and for the objects to which one has been habituated fromhis earliest years—was prohibited, both as to stuff and shape ; and, of course, a stop putto almost the only species of manufacture in the country. To wear a philibeg of any sort, or a coat or greatcoat made of tartan, subjected thewearer, whether i/ian or boy, upon being convicted by the oatli of one witness, before any justiceof peace, to imprisonment ivithoiit bail for six months. But for t/ie second offence tobanishment for seven years to any of the foreign plantations.^ The religious restrictions were even more stringent, and caused the deepestanimosity. When princes meet, astrologers may mark it an ominous conjunction, full ofboding, like that of Mars with CULLODEN HOUSE.
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