subs. phr. (old).—A Scotsman.

1

  1680.  ELIZABETH CARY, The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II., 39. A rabble multitude of despised BLUE-CAPS, encounter, rout, and break the Flower of England.

2

  1660.  Merry Drollery, 93.

        Although he could neither write nor read,
Yet our General Lashley cross’d the Tweed,
With his gay gang of BLUE-CAPS all.

3

  2.  (old).—A kind of ale (1822).

4