REPLY1851
True Blue
By G. F. G.
From documents relative to the wars of the Scottish Covenanters, in the seventeenth century, it appears that they assumed *blue ribbons* as their colours, and wore them as scarfs, or in bunches fastened to their *blue bonnets* and that the border English nicknamed them "*blue caps*" and "jockies." Hence the phrase, "True blue Presbyterian."
Topics: Scottish Covenanters, Seventeenth Century Wars, Presbyterianism