MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'C' General George Wade

General George Wade

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

Also MacHardie

later known as 'Old Bruce'

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'C' General George WadeAlso known as MacLeod Dress and sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Loud MacLeod' but Sir Thomas Dick Lauder obviously liked it . . . in a letter to Sir Walter Scott in 1829 he wrote, 'MacLeod has got a sketch of this splendid tartan, three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde.' 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. Robert