…THE FAMINE OF THE 1690s
he 1690s have conventionally been seen as a peculiarly unhappy time for Scotland. The horrors of the first Jacobite rising (1689-91) and the massacre of Glencoe (1692) are part of this narrative, as is the catastrophe of the Darien disaster (1699-1700) and the significant disruption caused by the Nine Years War (1688-97). But for most Scots, the misery of the 1690s likely lay in a more
