CLERGY (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Sir William Cockburn was a

Sir William Cockburn was a fellow member of the Society with Sir John MacGregor Murray

The sett for this once powerful Lowland family first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum

The Hay Leith connection is believed to have come about through a marriage between the two families

4th Earl of Bothwell (1536-78)

CLERGY (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Sir William Cockburn was aIt is claimed that in earlier times the Highland clergy wore the Highland dress and carried arms and that many attempts were made to prevent them wearing tartan and to force them to wear conventional ministerial habit. These, however, had only limited success. The Clergy tartan is sometimes called "The Priest's Sett", but in the Highlands is known as "Breacan nan Cleirach" the tartan of the Clergy. As with so very many tartans, there are many