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Through the kindness of Mr E. Brumby and with the permission of the National Register of Archives, Edinburgh a transcription of the bill for the regiment’s bag- pipe banners and the colours of the two battalions can be reproduced. 13 The document is so detailed in its description that a reconstruction of what the flags looked like can be suggested.

The Hon.ble Colonel Grayham Dr to Wm. Nicholson for 2 Battalions of the Royall Highlanders for 2 yards and half of Crimson tabby 14 at 12s £

1.10.0

2 yards and half of blow tabby ... @: 11 for 16 yards of brode yoolow ribbon for making up of the 4 bagpipe banners

1.0.6

0.10.6

2.2.0 1.1.0

for pr mixed silk tossols & Cords

for 12 yards of silk fringe

1.10.0

for Imbrothering the Queens Cypher with with [sic] St. Andrews motto with the Queens own Royall Regt. of Highlanders and St. Andrew and his motto on 4 banners 15 to a packing box for 18 yards of Italian Mantua silk 16 blow @ 9s for 8 yards of white – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – @ 9s for 10 yards of Crimson – - – - – - – - – - – - @ 10s

24.0.0

0.1.6 8.2.0 3.4.0 5.0.0 1.1.0 5.5.0 2.2.0 1.16.0

for making 2 union sheets @ 18s per

for making 2 plain sheets

for 4 pr of Crimson and gold tossols & Cords for 4 ticking outside Colour Cassis with [illegible]

13 National Register of Archives, Scotland Ref. GD 190/3/317/82. 14 Tabby – a plain weave fabric of silk, silk taffeta or worsted – P.G. Tortora & R.S. Merkel (eds), Fairchild’s Dictionary of Textiles , 7th Edition, (New York: Fairchild Publications, 1996), p. 558. (Hereafter Fairchild’s Textiles .) 15 St. Andrew’s motto was DUM SPIRO SPERO – While I breathe I hope . 16 Milanese silk – a type of warp knit fabric with two sets of yarns that knit in opposite directions. The two sets run diagonally crossing each other and at the edges each yarn is transferred to the other set. This renders the fabric run-resistant even if the fly of the flag is frayed or the sheet is pierced. Fairchild’s Textiles , p. 358.