David: I found your response to Tom regarding Highland and Lowland Scots (Border Reivers) very interesting. If you were writing tongue-in-cheek, or trying a bit of satire, forgive me for missing it, and ignore the rest of this.
It seems you have been influenced in your opinions by reference works written by Lowland Scots or English authors. Which is understandable, there being few books available written from the Highlanders' point of view. You might try some of James Hunter's books, or even go to the novels by Neil Gunn.

May I ask if you can point me to a source for your statement that the Highlanders were Anglicans? When I read that it seemed I could hear my Highlander father rising and rumbling from his place of rest in reaction to this statement. I can assure you that it simply wouldn't do to repeat in polite company his opinion of the English and their monarchy. The Highlanders had (have) no kind feelings for the English or Lowlanders. One might say their feelings, one for the other, were reciprocated in like kind. But this is common knowledge which we all know.

The Highlanders were, if anything, Catholic. They were aligned with the French (long of the Catholic persuasion) in the Auld Alliance, and invariably backed the Catholic Stuarts in their futile attempts to regain the throne (much to the Highlanders' loss). Eventually, various missions to the Highlands (likely, mostly Weefrees) succeeded in dividing church allegiances.
I do admit I have never been to Scotland. My father left when he was very young and eventually made his way to Texas. He married this pretty little blue-eyed blond of Scotch-Irish (Scots Irish, Ulster Scots) descent, whose ancestors had arrived in the American colonies in the early 1700s, her paternal Caldwells finally trooping in late and last to the Presbyterian Little River Meeting House settlement, 96 District, S.C. in about 1767.
Do let me know about your source for these Anglican Highlanders. Ginger Laird