Glasgow Past And Present Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports And in the
Glasgow Past And Present Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports And in the
David Robertson
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He ate in public twice a day, without any ceremony, along with some of his officers. The table was spread in a small dining-room, and he was waited upon by a few Jacobite ladies, to whom he gave several entertainments in Mr. M'Dowall's mansion. He is described as having been very clever and witty, and wore while in Glasgow sometimes a dress of fine silk tartan, with crimson velvet breeches ; at others, an English court coat, with the blue ribbon, star, and other insignia ^ For access to this cu...riosity the writer is indebted to his friend, Dr. Mathie Hamilton, himself a large contributor to this book, and deeply versed in Glasgow antiquities. 46o GLASGOW, PAST AND PRESENT. of the order of the Garter.^ He occupied the house from 26th December 1745 till 3d January 1746, a brief period of eight days. Again, when the immortal Wolfe was stationed in Glasgow in 1749 he was a frequent visitor to Colonel M'Dowall, at the Shawfield Mansion. Wolfe had been aide-de-camp to General Hawley at Culloden shortly before ; but at the period now referred to was Lieutenant-Colonel of Kingsley's Regiment, then quartered in Glasgow.
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