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Extracts from the Reverend Lauchlan Shaw's History of......................................... -- to be had in the place
the Province of Moray dated 1775......................................................................... -- J. Clegg Lce Corpl RE [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]
The parish of Calder is bounded by the river Nairn to the............................................ -- Written Cawdor
west, and by the hills towards the Streins to the south east;
the church standeth near the centre and is a neat little............................................... -- Shown
fabric ornamented with a steeple. East of the church is the
house of Calder. The Thanes of Calder, resided in the Castle }................................... -- No remains of it
of Nairn, and had a country seat at what is now called...........}................................... -- extant
Old Calder, a half a mile north of the present seat. There.......}
they had a house on a small moat, with a dry ditch, and........}
draw-bridge, the vestiges whereof are to be seen. But, by
a Royal licence, dated 6th August 1454, they built the
tower of Calder that now standeth upon a rock of free................................................ -- designated "Cawdor
stone, washed by a brook to the west, and on the other sides................................... -- Castle" This is the
having a dry ditch, with a draw-bridge. The tower stands............................................ -- most ancient
between two courts of buildings. Tradition beareth,..................................................... -- part of the Castle
that the Thane, that the Thane was directed in a dream, to......................................... -- but it has no such
build the tower round a hawthorn tree on the bank of the brook................................. -- distinctive name
Be this as it will, there is in the lowest vault of the tower, the...................................... -- as this
trunk of a Haw=thorn tree firm and sound, growing out of
the rock, and reaching to the top of the vault. Strangers are
brought to stand round it, each one to take a chip of it, and
then to drink to the Hawthorn tree. i.e. "Prosperity to the
family of Calder". This house, with spacious inclosures,
fine gardens, a deer park, and a large wood close by
the house make a grand and delightful seat. A small
pendicle called Drumurnie is the property of Rose of.................................................... -- shown as Drummournie
Holm. The lands of Meikle Budzeat, west of the church,............................................... -- Holme in Croy
the lands of Torrich a mile to the east, and the lands of.............................................. -- Torrich & Clunas
Clunies two miles to the south east, are mortgages pertaining.................................. -- both shown
to the descendants of this family, and all holding of Calder........................................ -- Shewn as "St
Calder, a Parsonage, dedicated to St Ewan. The......................................................... -- Barevans Church"
Church stood in the south and till the year 1619. Sir John
Campbell, being in danger by water coming [from] Yla, vowed
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