EDWARD FOSS.
November 5. 1849.
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THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND.
Mr. Editor,--May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in an
early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the
emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but
as yet found nothing definite enough.
R. L.
Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849.
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CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.
Mr. Editor,--Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your
Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which
Monmouth was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the
property of the Earl of Shaftesbury.
I shall be happy at some future day, if it suits your purpose, to
collect and send you such particulars as may be gained on the spot
respecting it, and the incidents of the capture.
We have still in the Town Hall here the chain in which it is said
Jefferies sat at the Bloody Assize.
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