leidar

Updated: May 4, 2025

The black mail was a private contribution, often compulsatory, for the maintenance of the famous black watch, an independent corps of provincial militia, and so called from the colour of their dress, in contradistinction to the red soldiers, or leidar dearag.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745: Volume II.