EDWARD FOSS.
November 5. 1849.
THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND.
Mr. Editor,—May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in an early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but as yet found nothing definite enough.
R. L.
Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849.
CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.
Mr. Editor,—Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which Monmouth was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the property of the Earl of Shaftesbury.