STUART OF BUTE [HUNTING] (MODERN) GENERAL but we have no hesitation

but we have no hesitation in giving this as the genuine Tartran

Fencibles were a kind of Home Guard formed at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion threat

but this source is unreliable

later known as 'Old Bruce'

STUART OF BUTE [HUNTING] (MODERN) GENERAL but we have no hesitationThe Stuarts of Bute are descended from the natural son of King Robert II. The use of this tartan is normally considered to be confined to the family from whom it derives its title, though others more or less closely related have likewise claimed an interest. Whether or not the pattern was in use before the publication of the Vestiarium Scoticum (1840), has never been ascertained. This version is in maroon is referred to as the Hunting version. But,