Show ROMANCE IN SCOTCH HISTORY curse pronounced by mother of great soldier seemed to have adequate fulfillment the widow of the great dundee married shortly after his death william I lvingston of who had long been in love with her dun deas mother who considered living eton virtually her son s murderer pronounced a curse on her daughter in law and her husband praying that god would chow the unworthy couple some swift token of his anger the wedding day of 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 of 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 in law who died at utrecht through a terrible accident she her infant son and her maid were crushed to death through the root falling in her bus band being rescued with great culty the bodies of lady and her baby were embalmer embalmed ed and brought to scotland and in the year 1800 it was the common practice of the in habitants of to go to the vault and see the bodies which were as per feet as the hour they were first placed in the coffin |