By Allan D Kennedy
Traditional bills of the Scottish Highlands are likely to think that they remained indifferent from the mainstream of British affairs until eventually good into the eighteenth century. In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy demanding situations this belief via exact research of the connection among the Highlands and the Scottish kingdom in the course of the reigns of Charles II and James VII & II.
Drawing upon a variety of assets, Kennedy strains the political, social, ecclesiastical and fiscal linkages among centre and outer edge, demonstrating that the Highlands have been even more tightly built-in than hitherto assumed. even as, he reconstructs the improvement of Highland coverage, putting it inside its right context of the absolutist pretensions of the late-Stuart monarchy. the result's an intensive reinterpretation which deals clean insights into the method of state-formation in early-modern Britain.
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C. Ó Baoill (Edinburgh, 1994), 166–73, at 168–69. Mary Macleod, ‘Cumha do Mhac Leoid’ [Lament for Macleod] in Gaelic Songs of Mary Macleod ed. C. Watson (Edinburgh 1965), 52–59, at 56–57. The Highlands In Britain 23 Gaelic poetry, therefore, tended to complement the work of exterior imagemakers by investing the Highlands with a distinct identity which was consciously different from the rest of Scotland. Conceptualising the Highlands The sense of peripheral ‘otherness’ rendered the Highlands vulnerable to denigration.
M. Mackenzie (Edinburgh, 1964), 108–13, at 180–89. 22 chapter 1 Ge b’e thagradh ort gun reusan, Bu cham a chòmhdhail da nuair dh’èireadh, Thig iomadh connspann leat à Eirinn: Thig Iarl Anndram nan each ceumnach Bheir a bhàrcan is còig ceud leis’ [Whosoever would accuse you without reason, rough on him the tryst when it happened. 24 At the same time, poets retained a strong sense of Gaelic solidarity. Mary MacLeod, a poetess from Harris, upon hearing false rumours in 1699 that the male line of the MacLeods of Dunvegan had become extinct, greatly feared that the family would lose its lands, but consoled herself with the belief that the rest of Gaeldom would naturally leap to its defence: Gun éireadh ‘nad aobhar Clann Raghnaill ‘s Clann Domhnaill Agus tigh Mhic Ghille Eathain Bha daingeann ‘nur seòrsa, Agus fir Ghlinne Garadh Nall thairis á Cnòideart, Mar sud is Clann Chamshroin O champ Inbhir Lòchaidh.
Thus, a petition to the Scottish Parliament in 1661, which bemoaned the “barbarous Insolencies” committed by Highlanders, was concerned only with cattle-theft; ‘barbarous’ simply meant ‘lawless’, rather than uncivil. Indeed, it should be recognised that the tendency to use the emotive language of incivility to refer merely to mundane law and order issues was hardly restricted to the Highlands. Jean Lockhart, from Fife, asked Parliament in 1661 that she be allowed to separate from her husband on account of the 51 Anonymous, Some Particular Matter of Fact relating to the Administration of Affairs in Scotland under the Duke of Lauderdale (London, 1679), 1.
