Teribus, the words of the Skye Boat Song refer to the exile of Prince Charles Stuart. Do you think that dates it to 1746?

The point of Twa Recruiting Sergeants (the familiar one) is that the recuiters are offering the farmworker an alternative to indentured labour. The bothy system that employed farmworkers like that didn't exist at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and recruitment didn't work that way either. The song is a brilliant piece of anachronism.

Tattie Bogle,I think this was the link you meant to post:

Greig-Duncan

Thanks for that, I hadn't heard of it before.