Show ROMANCE IN SCOTCH HISTORY curse pronounced by mother of great soldier seemed to have adequate fulfillment the widow of the great viscount dundee married shortly after hla his deth death william livingston of who had long lone been in love with her dun dees mother who considered livingston virtually her hee sons murZ murderer lerer pronounced a curse on her daughter in law and her husband praying that god would show the unworthy couple some swift token of his anger the wedding day of livingston and lady dundee was fraught with bad omens the bridegroom gave the bride a ring inscribed yours till death but the ring was lost before the day was over and the vengeful old lady dundee sent as her wedding gift a nightcap a pair 0 white gloves and a rope all these articles typical of a condemned murderer in october 1695 it seemed as though the unhappy fate so desired by lady dundee fell on her daughter inlaw in law who died at utrecht through a terrible accident she tier her infant son and tier her maid were crushed to death through the roof falling in her husband being rescued with great difficulty the bodies of lady and her baby were embalmed embalm ed and brought to scotland and in ili the year 1800 it was the common practice of the inhabitants of kilsyth to go to the vault and nd see the bodies which were as perfect as the hour they were first placed in n |