A cockade is a rosette or knot of ribbon worn on the hat as a badge. This cockade of white cambric roses was worn by Robert Strange in 1745 as a sign of allegiance to the Stewart family. Cockades became the official badge of the Jacobite forces.
Cambric is a very fine thin linen, named after Cambrai, a city in northern France.
Local tradition says that when the prince's army rested at Fassfern on Locheilside after raising the standard, the prince picked a flower from the small white rose there and put it in his bonnet.
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