MACDONALD OF THE ISLES HUNTING (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Contemporary accounts of Flora MacDonald Farquharson Contemporary accounts of Flora MacDonald (1746) suggest that MacAlisters wore the MacDonald tartan at that time John MacInnes was also a tailor and weaver and ran a general merchant store from the same premises as his Registry Office The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public examination The book appears to be a curious mixture of fact and fiction in keeping with the romantic ideology of the time