124 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. princcs Street
came into her possession, the pocket-knife, fork,
and spoon which Prince Charles used in all his
marches and subsequent wanderings. The case is
a small one, covered with black shagreen ; for
pottability, the knife, fork, and spoon are made to
screw upon handles, so that the three articles form
six pieces for close packing. They are all engraved
with an ornament of thistle-leaves, and the fork
and spoon have the prince?s initials, C. s : all have
the Dutch plate stamp, showing that they were
manufactured in Holland.
It is supposed that this case, with its contents,
came to Lady Mary Clerk through Miss Drelincourt,
daughter of the Dean of Armagh, in Ireland, ,
While her mother was still confined to bed a
Highland party, under a chieftain of the Macdonald
clan, came to her house, but the commander, on
learning the circumstances, not only chivalrously
restrained his men from levying any contribution,
but took from his bonnet his own white rose or
cockade, and pinned it on the infant?s breast,
?that it might protect the household from any
trouble by others. This rosette the lady kept to
her dying day.? In after years she became the
wife of Sir James Clerk of Pennicuick, Bart., and
when he went off to the royal yacht to present him
with the silver cross badge, the gift of ?the ladies
of Scotland.?
From the king, the case, with its contents, passed
to the Marquis of Conyngham, and from him to
his son -4lbert, first Lord Londesborough, and they
are now preserved with great care amidst the
valuable collection of ancient plate and b2jbuien2 at
Grimston Park, Yorkshire.
Sir Walter Scott was a frequent visitor at
No. 100, Princes Street, as he was on intimate
terms with Lady Clerk, who died several years
after the king?s visit, having attained a green old
age. Till past her eightieth year she retained an
( ? I Book of Days.?)
who became wife of Hugh, third Viscount Pnmrose,
in whose house in London the loyal Flora
Macdonald found a shelter after liberation from
the long confinement she underwent for her share
in promoting the escape of the prince, who had
given it to her as a souvenir at the end of his
perilous wanderings.
In the Edinburgh Obsmw of 1822 it is
recorded that when George IV. contemplated his
visit to Scotland, he expressed a wish to have
some relic of the unfortunate prince, on which
PRINCES STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM SCOTT?S MONUMENT.
