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Through the passage of a series of Acts of Parliament, a comprehensive attack was also launched on the culture of the Gael and the system of clanship: tartans and kilts were proscribed as the sartorial symbols of rebel militarism; heritable jurisdictions, the private courts of landowners, were abolished; the carrying of weapons was forbidden; and rebel estates were declared forfeit to the crown.
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
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