URQUHART (MODERN) Choose:By the metre It is claimed that in Choose:By the metre It 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 Members of the regiment have served on Operation Recuperation Although this is sometimes called Urquhart Old or Ancient Urquhart Scottish Tartan Society notes say it is interesting to note that much of the forged sixteenth century manuscript on which the Vestiarium Scoticum was based was supposedly transcribed by Sir Richard Urquhart in 1721