{{Short description|Scottish noblewoman who saved the Honours of Scotland}} {{Distinguish|Fletcher Christian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Christian Fletcher | image = The Honours Saved From Cromwell, 1652.JPG | caption = Christian Fletcher (centre) saving the Honours of Scotland | birth_date = 1619 or 1620 | birth_place = Kinneff, Kincardineshire, Scotland | death_date = February 1691 | known_for = Helping save the Honours of Scotland from Cromwell's troops }} '''Christian Fletcher''', Lady Abercrombie (1619 or 1620 – February 1691), was a Scottish minister's wife who helped save the Honours of Scotland from Cromwell's troops during the English invasion of Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/98528.html|title=Fletcher, Christian|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=2009-10-09}}</ref> She was married from 1642 to James Granger (or Grainger), the Presbyterian minister of Kinneff Church.
In 1651, the Honours were kept at Dunnottar Castle, but they had to be removed as the castle was about to be surrendered to the English.<ref name=prov_antiq>{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Walter|authorlink=Walter Scott |title=Provincial Antiquities of Scotland|year=1834|publisher=Robert Cadell|location=Edinburgh|url=https://archive.org/details/provincialantiq00scotgoog|pages=[https://archive.org/details/provincialantiq00scotgoog/page/n374 355]–356}}</ref> The different parts were delivered on three occasions to the care of Fletcher, who buried them in Kinneff church. There are different versions of exactly how they were smuggled out of the castle and taken to Kinneff.
In 1661, Parliament awarded Fletcher 2,000 merks in recognition of her service.<ref name=prov_antiq /> She married James Sandilands, 1st Lord Abercrombie, in 1663.
==See also== * Charles II's coronation at Scone Abbey on 1 January 1651
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==Further reading== *{{cite book|last1=Baden-Powell |first1=Agnes |authorlink=Agnes Baden-Powell |last2=Baden-Powell |first2=Robert |authorlink2=Robert Baden-Powell |title=The Handbook for Girl Guides, or, How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire |year=1912}} *{{cite book |last=Barron |first=Douglas Gordon |title=The Castle of Dunnottar and its History |year=1925 |publisher=Blackwood and Sons}} *{{cite book |editor-last=Barron |editor-first=Douglas Gordon |title=In Defence of the Regalia, 1651–2 |year=1910 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/indefenceofregal00barr}} *{{cite book |last1=Burnett |first1=Charles J. |last2=Tabraham |first2=Christopher J. |title=The Honours of Scotland |year=1993 |publisher=Historic Scotland |isbn=978-0-74800-626-7}} *{{cite book |title=The letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. V, 1817–1819|editor-last=Grierson |editor-first=Herbert J. C. |editor-link=Herbert John Clifford Grierson |year=1933 |publisher=Constable}} Available [http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/etexts/etexts/letters5.PDF online] at the Walter Scott Digital Archive. *{{cite book |editor-last=Howden |editor-first=Charles R. A. |chapter=Papers relating to the preservation of the honours of Scotland in Dunnottar Castle 1651–1652 |title=Publications of the Scottish History Society |year=1896 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1fMcAAAAMAAJ}} *{{cite book |last=Longmuir |first=John |authorlink=John Longmuir (poet) |title=A Day Spent Among the Ruins of Dunnottar Castle |year=1835}} *{{cite book |last=Powdrell-Campbell |first=Jimmy |title=The Scottish Crown Jewels and the Minister's Wife |year=2007 |isbn=9780752440293 |publisher=History Press Limited}} *{{cite journal |last=Reid |first=John J. |title=The Scottish regalia, anciently styled the honours of Scotland |journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |year=1889–90 |volume=XXIV |pages=18–48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keE-AAAAYAAJ}} *{{cite book |last=Scott |first=Walter |title =Description of the Regalia of Scotland |year=1875 | publisher=Robert Anderson |url=https://archive.org/details/descriptionrega00scotgoog}} *''The records of the parliaments of Scotland to 1707'', University of St Andrews, available [http://www.rps.ac.uk/ online]
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