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| Kincardine Castle | [continued from page 188] 6 of the lands of Urie in the Mearns, to his shield bearer Thomas Reid. Little is known with certainty of the proprietary history of the barony of Kincardine from 1383 until a late date. It appears to have been broken up into several Sections and of these the Earl Marischal and the old family of Strachan of Thornton had the principal parts. The last named had the Castelsted and park and the greater part of the adjourning crofts which bear the significant names already noticed, while the Earl Marischal had other crofts, together with the advowson of the Chapel of St Catherine b and the liberties &c of the burgh of Kincardine. But most of these lands and privileges were subsequently held by the Earls of Middleton, and the property of Kincardine, upon which stand the ruins of the ancient palace was bought soon after the fall of the Middletons by an ancestor of the present proprietor" ( Sir John Stuart Forbes Bart [Baronet] 1863) County Town - "It was in 1531-2 that the fourth Earl Marischal obtained a Charter for making the town of Kincardine "the principal and Capital burgh of the County (Douglas' Peerage II, 192.) How shortly and sorrily it maintained that position is proved by the acts of Parliament, for these shew that in less than eighty years after it was made the county town, the Sheriff and his deputes petitioned for the removal of the Courts to Stonehaven, in consequence of the "extreme poverty of the accommodation at Kincardine, there being neither a tolbooth, nor any house for "parties to ludge into for thair internment", in which state it is said matters had continued "Mony Zeiris" (Acta Parl II.574) the free hostelry having been long previously abolished. The town of Kincardine had probably been in a poor state even when the Earl Marischal obtained the Charter, although a late writer supposed it was once a great place, extending 'from the ground at the foot of the Castle to near Fettercairn House," (New Stat Act P. [Statistical Account Page] 84) a distance of at least an English mile. That idea had been assumed in Consequence of foundations of cottages being often turned up in that line of road, which was the old highway from Kincardine to Fettercairn, but the real 7 [Continued on page 190] |
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[Page] 189b. There are no remains or Site to be seen & is supposed the Chapel stood in near the "Burying Ground's" B.R. [B. Render]
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