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| [Dunnottar Castle continued] | [continued from page 51a] "to have gained the interior, and by that means opened the gate to his followers. The family of Marischal is understood to have taken its rise from a well known incident - the slaying of the Danish general Comus, by a young nobleman of the name of Keith, whom the second King Malcolm rewarded for his valour, by bestowing upon him certain lands in Lothian, with the title of Great Marischal of Scotland. The date of that event is the year 1010, and subsequently, but at what particular period does not appear, the castle with the whole parish of Dunnottar came into the possession of the Marischal family. By the accession of George the last Earl Marischal, to the rebellion of 1715, the title and extensive estates of the family were forfeited, and the castle, which, about thirty years before, had been purchased by government, was completely dismantled. The placing of the Regalia of Scotland, in Dunnottar castle during the Commonwealth, and their having, before the castle was surrendered to Cromwell's general, been conveyed away and secreted under the intrepid and ingenious management of Mrs. Ogilvy, the governor's lady, and Mrs. Granger, the wife of the parson of Kinneff are facts too generally known to require particular mention. Neither, as it is matter detailed in history is it necessary to do more than allude to the imprisonment here in 1685, of the Covenanters, who, to the number of 167 men, women, and children, were confined in one dungeon, still known by the name of the Whigs' Vault, where they suffered the greatest tortures under Keith of Whiterigs, at that time governor of the castle. (New Stat. Act. [Statistical Account] P. [Page] 220-21 |
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[page] 51bParish of Dunnottar
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