Cambridge.
_King Robert Bruce's Watch_ (Vol. v., p. 105.).--The watch known under
this name is now, I believe, generally admitted to be a forgery. There
is a letter in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. ii. p. 688., dated
Forfar, August 20, 1785, and signed J. Jamieson, who therein states that
the watch was offered for sale to him by a goldsmith hawker of Glasgow,
who afterwards sold it for two guineas, and it was next sold for five.
The letter does not trace this curiosity further; but I find in a little
work by Adam Thompson, entitled _Time and Timekeepers_, that it
subsequently found its way into the collection of George III.