Curse of Scotland of 1715 and "became universally hated in Scotland". In 18th-century Scotland, the nine of diamonds was sometimes called the "Justice Clerk", and was considered to be the most unlucky card in the pack. James Mitchell's 1825 "Scotsman's Library" claimed that the expression originated from the Duke of Monmouth writing orders on such a card before the Battle of Bothwell Bridge (1679). Despite this, in "The Spectator", a reviewer of an 1885 book by George Gomme commented that the reviewer had believed that the phrase had started from an order written on a 9 by the Duke of Cumberland ("Butcher" Cumberland)
Bells (card suit) ("Schellen 7") or, in South Tyrol the 6 of Bells ("Belle, Weli") is the second highest trump card in the game of Watten. The gallery below shows a suit of Bells from a German suited deck of 32 cards, plus the "Weli" or 6 of Bells which is used in some games as an 'honour' card. The main deck is of the Saxonian pattern: Bells (card suit) Bells are a suit in playing cards of the German-suited cards. They correspond to Diamonds in a French deck. The suit is usually known in German as Schellen, but is sometimes abbreviated to