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Parish of Rhynie
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Description Continued - submit to him or to associates with him in any deeds or enterprizes. But Malcolm hearing this, dispatched his followers to pursue him hither and thither; but they protracted their efforts in rain for four months, until searching in the upper parts (the highlands) they kill him; discovered at a place which is called Essy of the province of Strathbogie, with his adherents, or as some relate Malcolm having encountered him by accident at the same place slew him in the year of our Lord One thousand and fifty three on the third day of the month of April, on the fifth holiday of the Easter week.
(From F. Douglas' Description of the East Coast of Scotland p. 246)
"In the Glen of Noth (north side of the hill) is a prodigious cairn [continued on next page]