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Viscount Dundee's Ring

By W. C. TREVELYAN. (Duntrune, near Dundee)

In the *Letters of John Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee*, printed for the Bannatyne Club in 1826, is a description and engraving of a ring containing some of Ld. Dundee's hair, with the letters V.D., surmounted by a coronet, worked on it in gold; and on the inside of the ring are engraved a skull, and the posey —"Great Dundee, for God and me, J. Rex." The ring, which belonged to the family of Graham of Duntrune (representative of Viscount Dundee), has for several years been lost or mislaid; perhaps, through some of the numerous readers of the "Notes and Queries," information might b…

Topics: Genealogy, Historical Artifacts

Locations: Duntrune