found it my edition is the small penguin reprint where does prebble quote this and who does he quote there are two index entries for religion catholic has the contributory cause section quoted above and is a discussion of the last wave of emigration from knoydart where they were catholics for the most part however it and the subsequent pages don't seem to draw an obvious link between that and the motive for eviction which is presented as economic i simply can't agree with your thesis which is that there was systematic anti catholicism not recorded at the time despite anti catholicism being common and widely seen as acceptable in the nineteenth century and not discussed by historians now but secretly hinted at instead for reasons that are clear to you and not to me