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| [Dunnottar Castle continued] | "The interesting property of Dunottar and its Castle, with which the name and valorous actions of the ancient family of Keith Marischal were indissolubly linked for nearly four centuries, fell into the hands of Sir William Lindsay of the Byres, as the dowry of his wife, Christina daughter of Sir William Keith, by Margaret Frazer the heiress of the Thanedome of Cowie and other possessions. During the ownership of Lindsay and down to the year 1390, there was no Castle here, although tradition points to an aperture in the existing Keep, by which Wallace is said to have entered and masscred the English, by whom the rock was then occupied the building on the rock at that time was simply a church, within which the invaders took refuge, and the parson, Walter de Keryngton swore fealty to Edward at Berwick-on Tweed in 1296. The storming of the Kirk by Wallace, which occurred about 1297 is thus described by Blind Harry: "Ye Bishop yan began tretty to ma, Yair lyffs to get out of ye land to ga. Bot yair war rad, and durst nocht weyll affy: Wallace in fyr get set all haistely, Brynt up ye Kyrk, and all yat was yarin, Atour ye rock ye laiff ran with gret dyn, Sum hang on craggs rycht dulfully to de, Sum lap, sum fell, sum flotyret in ye se. Na Sothroune on lyff was lewyt in yat hauld, And yaim within yaie brynt in powder cauld". (Jamieson's Blind Harry. 162) "The kirk was rebuilt but again burned down by Edward III, the rock being then occupied by the Scots. At that period and sometime previously, the 'Craig' of Dunottar as the rock was then termed, belonged in property to the old Earls of Sutherland, the third of whom owned Dunottar at the time of Edward's Seige, was a great friend of David II, and fell at the battle of Halidon in 1333. The Sutherlands were succeeded in Dunnottar by Matthew de Glocester - of whom or his family we have been unable to learn anything beyond the fact, that, through disloyalty, he latterly forfeited the [continued on page 53] |
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[page] 52Parish of Dunnottar
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