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- After the unfortunate rising of 1685, Sir Uuncan Campbell of Anchinbreck, her father's cousin, who had acted as Argyll's aecond in command, having been obliged to fly to the Continent. his wife, the excellent Lady Henrietta Lindsay, daughter of tho Earl of Baloarrae, proceeded to join him, taking with her ae a companion her husband's young relative, Jean Campbell, with a view to her being educated in Holland. They were arrested on their way to embark, on suspicion of being the bearera of communicatione
to the friends of Argyll. The enspicion wan not unfounded, Lady Henrietta having on her person a letter, which might have proved prejudicial to the Earl or to othera, then awaiting their trial. This letter she peaeed to her companion, whiie herself awaiting examination. The young lady contrived to fear the letter into small pieces in her pocket, which she chewod and swallowed. In Holland, where the refugees were kindly roceived at court, Lady Henrietta and Miea Campbell became acquainted with the Princese-afterwards Queen-Anne, then residing with her sister, the Princees of Orange; and when. after the Revolution, on their return to Scotland, they visited the Princess in London. she presented Lady Henrietta with a shawl ae a token of emembrance, end Miee Campbell with a muslin apron, asid to have been embroidered by herself. This royal relic ie in the writer's poeeoeeion, to whom it has descended ss the great-great-grandson and representative of the lady who recreived it.
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