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Callendar House Callendar House
Callendar House
Callendar House
Callendar House
Callendar House
Callendar House
Rev. [Reverend] William Begg
Mr John Black
William Forbes Esqr
Grassom's County Map
Johnston's County Map
Statistical Account
030.08 "A large mansion in the fashion of the olden time, being remarkable for length rather than breadth - of great thickness in the walls, and adorned with turrets of an antique form. It must have been built several centuries ago*, but was in part modernized by the late proprietor. It is well sheltered in a park a large portion of which is covered in wood.
Within the wood there is a Mausoleun of a circular form and ornamented with Doric Columns." The grounds and approaches to the house are very tastefully laid out, and
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In page 150 of Vol. [Volume] 4 of Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of Scotland", she
relates the fugitive arrival of Queen Mary at Callander House on 1st
July 1565, after escaping the intended trap of the rebels who thought
to take her prisoner on her journey from Perth. She also states
(Vol [Volume] 5 P. [Page] 65) that Queen Mary often rested a night at Callander House
when journeying from Edinburgh to Stirling. Nimmo confirms the same,
in the Appendix to his History of Stirlingshire (P. [Page] 758), by stating that the
room is still shewn in which Queen Mary slept.

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