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Site of ENGAGEMENT between the Clans Forbes and Gordon A.D. 1572 043 [Continued from page 47]

"Feudal Rencontre. - The only historical incident in this parish deserving of notice, was a rencontre in 1572, between the two rival clans of Forbes and Gordon. To revenge an insult offered by the Master of Forbes, in repudiating his wife, daughter of the Earl of Huntly, the Gordons, under the command of two of the Earl's brothers, attacked their hereditary enemies, the Forbesses, within their rude entrenchment, on the White Hill of Tillyangus, in the South-west extremity of this parish, and, after a sanguinary contest, still marked by a number of graves or cairns, the Gordons carried the encampment of their opponents, slew Arthur Forbes, Son of Lord Forbes, commonly called Black Arthur, from his dark complexion, and continued the pursuit to the gates of Castle Forbes, (now Druminnor), the family Seat of the numerous Clan Forbes. This skirmish is the subject of traditionary notice by the aged chroniclers of the parish, and is recorded in a manuscript memoir of the house of Forbes, now in possession of the Honourable Lord Forbes."- (New Stat. Act. [Statistical Account] P [Page] 850)

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