The medicine chest of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s personal physician, used at the Battle of Culloden, will be featured for the first time as part of a new public exhibition, “Remote and Rural Remedies”.
“The discovery promises to fundamentally change understanding of 17th-century social, maritime and political history.” Prof Claire Jowitt
In the aftermath of Culloden, Orkney experienced a wave of plunder, burnings and retribution in 1746 for those who had supported the cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
“When my parents bought the farm of Midgarth from the Tait family in 1948, one of the items left in the farmhouse was an intricately carved oak tiller just over a metre long “
“You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebells, the McDonalds of Glenco, and put all to the sword under seventy.”
Thrust into a chair with a sword at her throat, Janet Fea, was forced to watch her house burn to the ground.
On the 17th September 1745 Edinburgh was occupied by the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart (aka the Young Pretender or Bonny Prince Charlie)
Georg Ludwig von Hannover was crowned as King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 18 August 1746 Arthur Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino, the Jacobite noble, was executed.
Patrick Gordon was born on 31st of March 1635 in Auchleuchries, Aberdeenshire.
