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It was a legend about an assassination attempt on Bonnie Prince Charlie that had been passed down over centuries, but had never been proven.
Now, a team of volunteers working in Bannockburn House have unearthed a musket ball hole that proves an attempt was made on the life of the Young Pretender during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 - after speaking to an 89-year-old man whose aunt worked as a housekeeper at the property.
The house’s oral history traditions claimed that a musketball was fired at the prince through the window of the bedroom where he was sleeping and and lodged itself in the wall at the head of the bed.
However, this could never be proved, until a team of volunteers finally found the hole left by the musket ball under a secret panel in April.
The revelation has been announced by historians on the 279th anniversary of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s arrival on Scottish soil, to try to regain the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on behalf of his father, James Stuart.
In January 1746, the prince took ill and convalesced at Bannockburn House at the behest of Sir Hugh Paterson, 3rd Baronet of Bannockburn, when the Jacobite army laid siege of Stirling Castle. During his time there, the Prince also met Sir Hugh’s niece, Clementina Walkinshaw, and the pair had a daughter, Charlotte, Duchess of Albany.
The bedroom where he stayed, located on the first floor’s west wing, is adorned with a delicate plaster frieze of mermaids and has multiple layers of ancient wooden panelling.
Trust volunteers Anne Monaghan and Anna Morrison, who had been searching for the hole, but did not know where to begin, arranged a visit with an 89-year-old Edinburgh resident, whose aunt was housekeeper for the last owner-in-residence, who provided the crucial lead.
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-a...at-bannockburn-house-finally-answered-4712441
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Now, a team of volunteers working in Bannockburn House have unearthed a musket ball hole that proves an attempt was made on the life of the Young Pretender during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 - after speaking to an 89-year-old man whose aunt worked as a housekeeper at the property.
The house’s oral history traditions claimed that a musketball was fired at the prince through the window of the bedroom where he was sleeping and and lodged itself in the wall at the head of the bed.
However, this could never be proved, until a team of volunteers finally found the hole left by the musket ball under a secret panel in April.
The revelation has been announced by historians on the 279th anniversary of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s arrival on Scottish soil, to try to regain the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on behalf of his father, James Stuart.
In January 1746, the prince took ill and convalesced at Bannockburn House at the behest of Sir Hugh Paterson, 3rd Baronet of Bannockburn, when the Jacobite army laid siege of Stirling Castle. During his time there, the Prince also met Sir Hugh’s niece, Clementina Walkinshaw, and the pair had a daughter, Charlotte, Duchess of Albany.
The bedroom where he stayed, located on the first floor’s west wing, is adorned with a delicate plaster frieze of mermaids and has multiple layers of ancient wooden panelling.
Trust volunteers Anne Monaghan and Anna Morrison, who had been searching for the hole, but did not know where to begin, arranged a visit with an 89-year-old Edinburgh resident, whose aunt was housekeeper for the last owner-in-residence, who provided the crucial lead.
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-a...at-bannockburn-house-finally-answered-4712441
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