CLERGY (MODERN) Choose:By the metre list as Russell

list as Russell

4th Earl of Bothwell (1536-78)

FIDDICH TWEED

Soft to touch - not at all scratchy or stiff

Sir William Cockburn was a fellow member of the Society with Sir John MacGregor Murray

CLERGY (MODERN) Choose:By the metre list as RussellIt is claimed that in earlier times the Highland clergy wore the Highland dress and carried arms and that many attempts were made to prevent them wearing tartan and to force them to wear conventional ministerial habit. These, however, had only limited success. The Clergy tartan is sometimes called "The Priest's Sett", but in the Highlands is known as "Breacan nan Cleirach" the tartan of the Clergy. As with so very many tartans, there are many