MACGREGOR [ROB ROY] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'L' The Sobieski Stuart brothers who

The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public examination

It also appears in his father's book 'Old & Rare Scottish Tartans'

' Apparently MacLeod was a special friend of the Hays/ Stuarts/ Sobieskis and one of the brothers gave him the sketch many years before the Vestiarium Scoticum was published

This is oldest recorded version of the Clan sett

The sett is similar to Stewart of Athol

MACGREGOR [ROB ROY] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'L' The Sobieski Stuart brothers whoA specimen of the Rob Roy sett exists in the collection of the Highland Society of London (1816 1817), bearing the Seal of Arms of Sir John MacGregor Murray of MacGregor, Baronet, and signed John M. Murray and is labelled "The MacGregor Tartan for undress ordinary clothing." The specimens were collected during the period 1815 16. DW Stewart says no documentary evidence exists of Rob Roy actually wearing it but in their 1850 book "The Clan and Family