Show ROMANCE IN SCOTCH HISTORY curse pronounced by mother of great soldier seemed to have ade q quate aate fulfillment the widow of the great viscount dundee bundee married marrida shortly after his death william livingston of who had long been in love with her dun deos dees mother who considered livingston virtually her sons murderer pronounced a curse on her daughter in law and her husband praying that god would show the unworthy 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 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 inlaw in law who died at utrecht through a terrible accident she her infant sop son and her maid were crushed to death the roof falling in her husband being be ng rescued with great difficulty the bodies of lady kilsyth and her baby were embalmed embalm ed and brought to scotland arid and in the year 1800 it was the common practice of tho the inhabitants of kilsyth to go to the vault and see the bodies which were asper as perfect as the hour they were first placed in tio t n |