[2] Captain Hughes of Pulteney's Regiment reported from his headquarters at Loch Rannoch in August 1749 that the local sheriff depute had been dismissing individuals taken before him for wearing Highland dress.

[2] Later that month Captain Hughes reported that a party of fully armed Highlanders had been plundering at Killiecrankie.

[3] However, two of the men were later captured at Killin,[3] but while the Corporal was conducting the two offenders to Captain Hughes he was met by the sheriff depute and a mob.

[2] Captain Hughes reported the incident as "the People Insult & Triumph, and while their sheriff depute protects them, make a Jest of Military Power".

[4] Similar incidents were reported around the same time in other parts of the Scottish Highlands: On 16 September 1749 a Captain Scott of Guise's Regiment who was stationed at Braemar Barracks reported that his men had pursued a Highlander who had appeared armed and in "Highland Dress" but that he had fairly outrun them and that they had opened fire on him as he ran into a wood, but missed him.