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| Court Stane | Court Stane &c Contd [Continued] | [Continued from page 95] the Maormor of the Mearns. A rude unembelished boulder near Mondynes called the Coort Stane about 7 1/2 feet high is supposed by Professor Stuart, to have been the place of his burial. It is much more certain however that the name implies that the Stone had been used as the site of the Barony Courts of Mondynes, the lands of which were gifted by William the Lion to one of his Anglo-Norman followers". (P. [page] 24* Memorials of Angus & Mearns.) By A. Jervise. "Until the time of Prof. [Professor] Stuart, the Murder of Duncan II, in Menteith in Perthshire was thought to be a settled point, but from the fact that he was slain by Macperader Thane of the Mearns, and on the probablity that previous historians, had misconstrued the meaning of the word Monathethyn, the Professor took a different view of the subject, and argued that the word Should rather be rendered "Mondynes", the name of a well known property in this shire. He founded his theory on the belief that in the chartulary of Arbroath the old spelling of Mondynes (Monethen, Minethen) was pretty similar to that of Menteith in the Chronicle, and further insisted that a field upon that property was called "Duncan's Shade," and a large solitary boulder in it, which many of you will know, and which is quite visible from the Railway had the name of the "King's Stone." Upon this point, I fear, the learned Professor has allowed his enthusiasm to get the better of his good judgement, for I have been unable to find any such spelling of Mondynes in the Register of Arbroath, as he advances, and besides, from a careful inquiry I have found no [continued on page 97] |
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[The Maormor of the Mearns is NOT a place name it is part of this extension of the writings on page 97. A Maormor was a species of chieftain ]Transcriber's notes
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