Scotland, Jacobitism & Jacobite - Association Copy, The Psal...

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Scotland, Jacobitism & Jacobite - Association Copy, The Psalms of Katherine Walkinshaw, the Mother of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Mistress, Brady (Nicholas, Chaplain in Ordinary, D.D., editor) & Tate (Nahum, Poet-Laureat, editor), A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches, London: Printed by Jacob Ilive, 1741, authority leaf dated 1696 but with George I's Royal arms, black-ruled title-page with some Gothic Black letter, pp: [ii], 232, [1] (Gloria Patri), [3] (index and advert), contemporary black morocco gilt, the covers outlined with a triple-fillet and enclosing a foliate centrepiece and spandrels, six-compartment spine of raised bands enclosing foliate bosses, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, [1]

Provenance: 1) Katherine Walkinshaw (née Paterson; c. 1683-1780), wife of Lt-Col. John Walkinshaw (1671-1731), of Barrowfield, a Jacobite who saw action and was captured in the 1715 Rising. Their youngest daughter Clementina Walkinshaw (1720-1802), later known as the Comtesse d'Alberstorf, in 1746 was living at Bannockburn House, Stirling, the seat of her uncle Sir Hugh Paterson, Bt (c. 1685-1777), when she first met Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), and would later go on to be his mistress, fathering one child by her. Ownership inscription to flyleaf: Ka: Walkinshaw, then annotated in a later 18th century hand: of Barrowfield/1741; 2) W. Stuart of Allanton/1799, dated ink MS ownership inscription, numbered: No. 39; 3) H.W. Wilson, 20th century pencil ownership inscription.