. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. om their supposed confederate, began to ascendin numbers, when the governor caused the ropes to be cut, and the \suspended beams, tumbling down on the ladders, crushed at once all on ithe ladders and below the castle wall. ; The last account of the Seatons possessing Niddry Castle is dated [the 12th of May, 1653, when George, Earl of Winton, was served heir \to his grandfather George, in all the family lands. ; Tlie castle and lands of West Niddry appear to have passed from <the Winton family to the family of Ilopetoun during the trou
. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. om their supposed confederate, began to ascendin numbers, when the governor caused the ropes to be cut, and the \suspended beams, tumbling down on the ladders, crushed at once all on ithe ladders and below the castle wall. ; The last account of the Seatons possessing Niddry Castle is dated [the 12th of May, 1653, when George, Earl of Winton, was served heir \to his grandfather George, in all the family lands. ; Tlie castle and lands of West Niddry appear to have passed from <the Winton family to the family of Ilopetoun during the troublesome lreigns of Charles I. and II. In 1683, Charles Hope of Hopetoun wasserved heir male and of a line to John Hope of Hopetoun, his father,in the lands and barony of West Niddry, in whose family they nowcontinue. The Honourable General Sir John Hope, who commandedand was wounded at the battle of Toulouse, in 1814, was created LordNiddry on that occasion. He afterwards succeeded to his brother andbecame Earl of Hopetoun. r Efjc Cnstle [\\\\ pnlnre 0. FRONT VIEVT OF THE PALACE.—No. S4. • ALAS! AND ?WHAT SHALL YORK SEE HERE,BDT EMPTY LODGINGS AND DNFURNISHD WALLS,UNPEOPLED OFFICES, UNTRODDEN STONES.—AND WHAT CHEER FIND FOR WELCOMF., BUT OUR GROANS T SHAK9FERE. FOR 01 WAJBS ME! THE THISTLE SPRINGSIN DOMICILE O ANCIENT KINGS,WITHOUT A PATRIOT TO REGRETOCR PALACE AND OrR STATE. FERGUSON. Cl)e fetle aiih ]}[\ku of jFalklaiiii. Falkland originally a Roman Station—Its Etymon—Formerly part of the property of the Earls ofFife—An Army convened here by Constantine Earl of Fife—Marriage of the Countess ofFife to Stewart Earl of Monteath, son of Robert II.; it then becomes a Royal Palace—TheDuke of Albany, Governor, starves David Duke of Rothesay to death—Two Females murderedfor attempting to protract his Life—Falkland erected into a Royal Borough—James V. and hisQueen reside here—His Death—One of the favourite Retreats of his Daughter Mary—KingJames V
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