1579 Beggars, minstrels, fortune-tellers, vagrants, idle people and the 'vagabond scholars' of Aberdeen, Glasgow and St. Andrews were the target of legislation from the Scots Parliament. 1628 Janet Boyd, wife of a Dumbarton burgess, ordered to be tried for witchcraft having 'freely confessed' to making a pact with the Devil. London Scottish became the first Territorial Army regiment in full combat with 321 casualties in Flanders. Source - Scotching the Myths by Jim Hewiston can be found in the History Book Section of Scottish Radiance. It is time to stop combing the library but we can not quit without some quotes from Quotable Scots another great History bookshelf resident.
History is too serious to be left to historians.