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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRABE STONE Site of BATTLES between the Forces of the Earl of Huntly and Lord Forbes A.D. 1571 and between Montrose and the Covenanters A.D. 1644 [Crabe Stone, Aberdeen] | Crabe Stone Crabe Stone Crabe Stone |
Mr. Shaw, Belmont St. Mr. Cruickshank, Police Surveyor Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen |
075 | For many years an inveterate animosity, characteristic of the times, had subsisted between the family of Gordon and that of Lord Forbes. Both families were equally actuated by the spirit of revenge, and an eagerness to prosecute their deadly quarrels, Adam Gordon, who was now in the interest of the queen, had been recently engaged in a skirmish with the Forbeses at Tulliangus; after which he availed himself of an opportunity to attack the Castle of Towie, in the parish of Leochell, a baronial mansion which belonged to Forbes of Brux, one of this family; but, having met with resistance, he set fire to the Castle, and the lady of the manor, her children, and servants, to the number of twenty-seven persons, perished in the flames. So barbarous an act could not fail to exasperate the Forbeses, and prompt them to seek for revenge. John, Master of Forbes, did not long hesitate to proceed in quest of Adam Gordon, whom he found, with his confederates, at Aberdeen. They |
| Site of BATTLES between the Forces of the Earl of Huntly and Lord Forbes A.D. 1571 and between Montrose and the Covenanters A.D. 1644 [Crabe Stone, Aberdeen] | Mr. Shaw, Belmont St. Mr. Cruickshank, Police Surveyor Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen |
075 | For many years an inveterate animosity, characteristic of the times, had subsisted between the family of Gordon and that of Lord Forbes. Both families were equally actuated by the spirit of revenge, and an eagerness to prosecute their deadly quarrels, Adam Gordon, who was now in the interest of the queen, had been recently engaged in a skirmish with the Forbeses at Tulliangus; after which he availed himself of an opportunity to attack the Castle of Towie, in the parish of Leochell, a baronial mansion which belonged to Forbes of Brux, one of this family; but, having met with resistance, he set fire to the Castle, and the lady of the manor, her children, and servants, to the number of twenty-seven persons, perished in the flames. So barbarous an act could not fail to exasperate the Forbeses, and prompt them to seek for revenge. John, Master of Forbes, did not long hesitate to proceed in quest of Adam Gordon, whom he found, with his confederates, at Aberdeen. They |
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