. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. descendant of Stuart married a daughter of the Regent Murray, and the domainbecame and has remained the property ot the Earl of Moray, whose eldest sonderives trom it his title, f The castle has not been connected with many greathistorical events. Queen Mary is said to have resided in it, as in every greatScottish fortaiice ; and it is believed to have been here that, in 1580, her youngson had planned, under the guise of a hunting party, a project for revolutionisingthe government, and ridding himself of the tutelage ot Mar. I It was u
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. descendant of Stuart married a daughter of the Regent Murray, and the domainbecame and has remained the property ot the Earl of Moray, whose eldest sonderives trom it his title, f The castle has not been connected with many greathistorical events. Queen Mary is said to have resided in it, as in every greatScottish fortaiice ; and it is believed to have been here that, in 1580, her youngson had planned, under the guise of a hunting party, a project for revolutionisingthe government, and ridding himself of the tutelage ot Mar. I It was used as a fortified place so late as the year 1745, when it containetl asmall Jacobite garrison. The reader will perhaps remember this circumstance asinterwoven with the incidents in Waverley, and as affording Home, the author otDouglas, the opportunity for which he longed, of experiencing the realities of war.^ *01d Stat. .Account, w. 61. See Uou^ , ii. 257. I Xew Stat. .Account, Perthshire, Tyler, v. 259. S Notes to \Va\erley, ii. 13- TH E BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL Drochil Castle
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