§ 60. Sir A. KNOXasked the First Commissioner of Works if he will consider the desirability of placing tablets on the floor of Westminster Hall, commemorating William Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock, and Arthur Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino, executed in 1796, and Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, executed in 1747, the tablets to be similar to those commemorating the Earl of Strafford and King Charles the First?
§ The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Mr. Ormsby-Gore)As Westminster Hall was used for so many centuries for the accommodation of the Royal Courts of Justice, it would, I fear, be quite impossible to commemorate all the cases tried within its walls by means of bronze tablets on the floor. The names of the three die-hards of the Jacobite cause selected by my hon. and gallant Friend are only a few among those who were tried in Westminster Hall, and I am doubtful whether it is desirable that they should be picked out for exceptional memorial.
§ Sir A. KNOXWill my right hon. Friend reconsider his decision in view of the fact that these were the last three die-hards who died for the opinions after trial in Westminster Hall?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI am not sure that that is historically so. It is true that two of them were captured at Culloden, along with a great many others. I rather think Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was captured later, but there were many others in Scotland who suffered the death penalty for supporting that cause even after him.
§ Mr. MORGAN JONESIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that we have still one die-hard left?