A full and true account, of the apprehending and bringing up to London the Dutchess of Gourdon from Scotland, for high treason against her Royal Majesty Queen Ann, : in presenting the faculty of Edinburgh, with a medal, in order to bring it in the Pretender. Together with the copy of the Pretender's letter which was found out by her own footman. ...
[Nottingham] : Edenburgh printed: and Nottingham re-printed by Will. Ayscough in the Middle-Pavement.,
[1711?]
A broadside account of the arrest of the Duchess of Gordon on charges of high treason. Gordon having presented the Faculty of Advocates, with a medal depicting James VIII, "the Old Pretender" was subsequently discovered to have in her possession a letter from the exiled sovereign requesting the deliverance of the decoration to the Kingdom of Scotland in the hope that the nation would do their utmost to "Establish me in the throne of my ancestors".
ESTC
Gordon, Elizabeth Gordon, Duchess of, -1732
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766
Medals
England Nottingham.