A Highland Table 1715

Time moves forward to summer 1715, but the manner of living steps backwards from the settled household of the Lowland Baronet of Ravelston. Scots in the remote and roadless Highlands are less influenced, materially, by the open shop window on the European world which now attracts Lowlanders to more and more Continental goods and cultures. Highland life is in contrast: physically cut off from Lowland influences and deeply Celtic in its culture. Two separate peoples speaking different languages exist within one small land. And now the divide deepens. Jacobite Highlanders fighting, as is their custom, for the clan cause – a deposed Stuart king – while more law-abiding Lowlanders make a compromise of token loyalty for the foreign king.