Charles Edward Stuart brass plaque

This brass commemorative plaque records: The oldest established hotel in Scotland (1699). "Chambers's Journal", May 1st, 1911. Extracts from article "Bridging the Time - 1745-1910" Trial of Colonel Bower of Kincaldrum, Forfarshire, at York... "The only charge that could be brought against him was that he had worn a white cockade in his bonnet., and had been seen shaking hands with Prince Charles Edward at the Salutation Inn in Perth". The Room Prince Charles Edward occupied is still used - No, 20.

Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, led the Jacobite rising of 1745 aiming to restore the Stuart monarchy; he stayed at the Salutation Inn in Perth during this campaign.