MACKAY (ANCIENT) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre Under the Childers Reforms it

Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with 72nd Regiment

James Scarlett MBE explains that it was a waistcoat given to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by MacDonald of Kingsbrugh

An early sample of the Black Watch tartan labelled 'Grant' is in the collection of Lt Gen Sir William Cockburn at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow

First mentioned by Wilsons of Bannockburn in 1805

Also Lendrum

MACKAY (ANCIENT) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre Under the Childers Reforms itThe pattern shows a marked similarity to the Gunn tartan in all but colour, suggesting a territorial origin for both. Recently historians of Scottish dress have tended to stress the geographical sources, rather than the clan associations of the earliest Highland tartans. A sample was signed and sealed by the Chief for Highland Society of London in 1816. The sett is known as the 'Green' Mackay.