- Christian Fletcher
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Not to be confused with Fletcher Christian.
Christian Fletcher, Lady Abercrombie, (1619 or 1620, Kinneff, Kincardineshire – February 1691) was a Scottish minister's wife who saved the Honours of Scotland from Cromwell's troops during the English invasion of Scotland.[1]
See also
- Charles II's coronation at Scone Abbey on 1 January 1651
- Dunnottar Castle
References
- ^ "Fletcher, Christian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/98528.html. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
Further reading
- D. G. Barron, ed., In defence of the regalia, 1651–2 (1910)
- J. P. Campbell, The Scottish crown jewels and the minister's wife (2007)
- J. J. Reid, ‘The Scottish regalia, anciently styled the honours of Scotland’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 24 (1889–90), 18–48
- The letters of Sir Walter Scott, ed. H. J. C. Grierson and others, centenary edn, 12 vols. (1932–79)
- Walter Scott, Provincial antiquities of Scotland (1834)
- Walter Scott, Description of the regalia of Scotland (1819)
- A. Baden-Powell and R. Baden-Powell, The handbook for Girl Guides, or, How girls can help build the empire (1912)
- The records of the parliaments of Scotland to 1707, http://www.rps.ac.uk/, University of St Andrews
- George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant
- W. J. Chiego, H. A. D. Miles, and D. B. Brown, Sir David Wilkie of Scotland, 1785–1841 (1987)
- memorial stones and other information on display, Kinneff old kirk
- R. Franck, Northern memoirs, calculated for the meridian of Scotland (1694)
- C. J. Burnett and C. J. Tabraham, The honours of Scotland (1993)
- W. D. Collier, The Scottish regalia (1951)
- C. R. A. Howden, ed., ‘Papers relating to the preservation of the honours of Scotland in Dunottar Castle 1651–1652’, Publications of the Scottish History Society, 26 (1896)
- J. Longmuir, A day spent among the ruins of Dunnottar Castle (1835)
- D. G. Barron, The castle of Dunnottar and its history (1925)
- A. Brook, ‘Technical description of the regalia of Scotland’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 24 (1889–90), 49–141
Categories:- 1619 births
- 1620 births
- 1691 deaths
- 17th-century Scottish people
- People from Kincardine and Mearns
- Scottish women
- Women in 17th-century warfare
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