It is possible that this was one of the tartans favoured by the fashionable ladies of Edinburgh, who disapproved of the Act of Union and were anti-government and pro-Jacobite in their sympathies. Basically The pro Jacobite was rising from the 1745, also known as the Forty-five Rebellion or simply the ’45 as an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in 1689, with major outbreaks in 1708, 1715 and 1719. So, As a sign of ladies of Edinburgh feelings, they wanted to wear tartan plaids and silken scarves. Since it belongs to no clan, it is one of those setts which anyone not possessing a tartan of his or her own is entitled to wear. It’s age is unknown but it almost certainly existed at the beginning of the 18th century.
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