Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . eet. While her mother was still confined to bed aHighland party, under a chieftain of the Macdonaldclan, came to her houce, but the commander, onlearning the circumstances, not only chivalrouslyrestrained his men from levying any contribution,but took from his bonnet his own white rose orcockade, and pinned it on the infants breast, that it might protect the household from anytrouble by others. This rosette the lady kept toher dying day. In after years slie became thewife of Sir James Clerk of Pcnnicuick, Bart., and who
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . eet. While her mother was still confined to bed aHighland party, under a chieftain of the Macdonaldclan, came to her houce, but the commander, onlearning the circumstances, not only chivalrouslyrestrained his men from levying any contribution,but took from his bonnet his own white rose orcockade, and pinned it on the infants breast, that it might protect the household from anytrouble by others. This rosette the lady kept toher dying day. In after years slie became thewife of Sir James Clerk of Pcnnicuick, Bart., and who became wife of Hugh, third Viscount Prim-rose, in whose house in London the loyal FloraMacdonald found a shelter after liberation fromthe long confinement she underwent for her sharein promoting the escape of the prince, who hadgiven it to her as a souvenir at the end of hisperilous wanderings. In the Edinburgh Observer of 1S22 it isrecorded that when George IV. contemplated hisvisit to Scotland, he expressed a wish to havesome relic of the unfortunate prince, on which. STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM SCOTTS MONCMENT. from time to time, on special occasions, alwayswore this white rose of the house of Stuart. Another and more valuable relic of the 45came into her possession—the pocket-knife, fork,and spoon which Prince Charles used in all hismarches and subsequent wanderings. The case isa small one, covered with black shagreen; forportability, the knife, fork, and spoon are made toscrew upon handles, so that the three articles pieces for close packing. They are all engravedwith an ornament of thistle-leaves, and the forkand spoon have the princes initials, c. S: all havethe Dutch plate stamp, showing that they wereminiifactureJ in Holland. It is supposed that this case, with its contents,came to Lady Mary Clerk through Miss Drelin-court, daughter of the Dean of Armagh, in Ireland, Lady Clerk commissioned Sir Walter Scott topresent him with the travelling case, whi
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