Relics of the Family of Innes of Balnacraig and Ballogie, Aberdeenshire, including a Portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Abstract

The items reported include a 17th-century prayer book which belonged to Lewis Innes, Almoner to Queen Mary of Modena, Consort of King James II and VII, a manuscript account of the life of Father Henry Innes, a birth-brief in favour of Walter Innes who was in the service of Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I, when resident in Paris. The portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart as a youth was a a gift from the Chevalier de St George to Lewis Innes, shortly before the death of the latter in 1738.