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account of how our tartan came into being is other than
correct.
"Secondly, and I tliink this clinches the matter, I would
point out that Lord Crawfurd was fighting in Austria and
Turkey during the whole time he commanded our Regiment,
i.e., parts of 1739 and 1740, and it is most unlikely that he had
anything whatever to do with either its equipment or dress; in
fact, judging from the time it took for letters to travel in those
days, it is quite likely that he never even knew he had commanded
it until after he was transferred to the Life Guards
in 1740.
"The manuscript to which Capt. Antrobus alludes contains
nothing bearing on the subject."
Extract from a Letter to HUOH ANTROBUS from Mr JAMES
LINDSAY, Jr., burgh Fiscal, Inverary, dated 29th August
1913.
"I stupidly went to the Games last Wednesday without
your letter, although I intended to speak to our Chieftain,
Mr Niall D. Campbell, son of the late Lord Archibald, about
the subject of it. I told him, however, about the letter, and
asked about the Earl of Crawford, who was brought up here.
Mr Niall says there is no doubt whatever there was a Lindsay
tartan; that he had seen a piece of what he called the 'old'
Lindsay tartan ; and that while there were no records or any-
thing to speak definitely on the point he had not the slightest
doubt but that the >oung Earl wore his own—that is the
Lindsay— tartan while at Inverary and on hia travels."
Miss JANET LINDSAY, O.B.E.
On 20th February 1920, in Montrose Council Chamber,
Miss Janet Lindsay, daughter of Mr Stewart Lindsay, Balmullie
Mill, Inverkeilor, was invested with the insif^nia of an Officer of