Quote Originally Posted by Quaich Maker View Post
Quite so Peter ,
evidence such as this

'' Clearly the periodic muster of fencible men stiffened loyalty and dependency in a period
when both were frequently tested in the Highlands. Entries for 1704 in the Regality Court Books
of the Laird of Grant record the calling out, on 48 hours' notice, of the 'fencible men' of Badenoch
and Strathspey for the Laird's 'hosting or hunteing'; each man was to be dressed in 'Heighland
coates, trewes, and short hoes of tartane of red and greine sett broad springed and also with gun,
sword, pistoll and durk ... And the Master to outrig the servantes in the saids coates, trewes, and
hose out of there fies' .''

Stewart 1893, 27-8

and this

'' A sense of kinship and identity must have been strengthened when Ludovick Grant of
Freuchie made a settlement of his estates on his eldest son, Colonel Alexander Grant of Grant, in
1710; at a formal and elaborate ceremony the old laird resigned the leadership of the clan to his
heir. This selection of the heir to the estate before the witness of the clan is reminiscent of the
'tanistry' of the early Irish law tracts by which the successor designate or heir presumptive, an
tanaiste, was chosen within the ruler's lifetime.
[The Laird of Grant] made all the gentlemen and commons of his name wear whiskers, and make all
their plaids and tartan of red and green, and commanded them all to appear before him at Ballintome,
the ordinary place of rendezvous, in that uniform, in kilt and under arms, which order was complied
with . ''

Fraser 1883, III, 326-7


Note the dates Peter , and note also , the dates of the Clan Grant
paintings by Richard Waitt .
Hi Ian,

My statement about knowledge was pretty general and I did feel a little guilty after I had posted it, because there are many very "well studied" people who post on these forums, and you would seem to be another. However I still say it is a fact that many expat scots want history to be the way they would like it rather that the way it is.

The discussion was about Black Watch tartan- I don't see any evidence in those two statements to say that the Grants wore Black Watch tartan.

Peter