. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. e ofUrquhart branches forth in the person of Escrinon, married to Narfesia. He was sovereign prince of Achaia. For his fortune in the wars, and affabilityin conversation, his subjects and familiars surnamed him apoxapro^ t—that is to sayfortunate and well beloved. After which his posterity ever since hath ac-knowledged him as father of all that carry the name of Urquhart. He had forarms, three banners, three ships, and three ladies in a field or, with a picture of ayoung lady above the waste, holding in her right hand a brandished swor
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. e ofUrquhart branches forth in the person of Escrinon, married to Narfesia. He was sovereign prince of Achaia. For his fortune in the wars, and affabilityin conversation, his subjects and familiars surnamed him apoxapro^ t—that is to sayfortunate and well beloved. After which his posterity ever since hath ac-knowledged him as father of all that carry the name of Urquhart. He had forarms, three banners, three ships, and three ladies in a field or, with a picture of ayoung lady above the waste, holding in her right hand a brandished sword, and abranch of myrtle in the left, for crest ; and, for supporters, two Javanites, after thesoldier habit of Achaia, &c. Upon his wife Narfesia, who was sovereign of theAmazons, he begot Cratynter. 1 Such, if we credit the head of the house, was the origin of the family, adescendant of which still inhabits this mansion. Introduction to Works, p. 7. + So printed in the collected edition. jWorks, 156. THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL Crathes Castle. HE valley of the Dee forms the natural channel of communica-tion between the central highlands and the broad district offruitful lowlands stretching north-eastward from the Mearnsto the easternmost point of Aberdeenshire, there jutting farinto the German Ocean. The inhabitants of the two districtsthus joined by a common highway were as unlike each other in language,manners, and character, as the French and the Germans, or the Arabs andthe Caffirs. Their intercourse of old was therefore, in general, ratherhostile than amicable, and it was not until the great battle of Harlaw,fought in the plains of Aberdeenshire in 1411, that the Celtic race had abandonedthe hope of erecting for themselves a kingdom as truly independent of the kingand parliament of the eastern plains, as they again were independent of the king atWestminster. The long valley through which flowed the river, rising among apeople so hostile to those among whose fields
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