Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Scotland; thus Whiglander, a Scot.

1682		‘The Whigs’ Disappointment’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V:1 146: Have you not heard of a Festival conven’d of late, / Compos’d of a pack of Notorious Dissenters, / Appointed by Tinkers in Whigland to meet, / To sign and seal Covenanters Indentures?
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Whig-land Scotland.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1890		York Herald 12 Apr. 12/5: The numerous titles of Scotland — Scratchland, Itchland, Whigland.