How did Clans become Clans?

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When the Pommies figured...

Always find this one interesting, we generally refer to the English down here as kipper eaters and some times whinging pomes, but the real pomes are the Australians...

(Prisoners Of Mother England).

Great humour by the way.

[Sawney Bean]

Were the statistics a one off event or was central government more concerned about the borderers rather than the teuchters?

[blackbeard]

Were the statistics a one off event or was central government more concerned about the borderers rather than the teuchters?

Since the legislation calls out men by name I gather that it was directed at people rather than a region.
The roll call names 21 men of the borders and 105 highlanders.

The full text can be found here
http://www.rps.ac.uk/trans/1587/7/23

[Sawney Bean]

Thanks for the link, interesting reading.