The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . and thedomain became and has remained the property of the Earl of Moray, whose eldest son derives fromit his title. :|: The castle has not been connected with many great historical events. Queen Mary issaid to have resided in it, as in every great Scottish fortalice; and it is believed to have been here that,in 1580, her young son had planned, under the guise of a hunting party, a project for revolutionis-ing the government, and ridding himself of the tutelage of Mar. § It was used as a fortified place so late as the year 1745, when it
The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . and thedomain became and has remained the property of the Earl of Moray, whose eldest son derives fromit his title. :|: The castle has not been connected with many great historical events. Queen Mary issaid to have resided in it, as in every great Scottish fortalice; and it is believed to have been here that,in 1580, her young son had planned, under the guise of a hunting party, a project for revolutionis-ing the government, and ridding himself of the tutelage of Mar. § It was used as a fortified place so late as the year 1745, when it contained a small Jacobitegarrison. The reader will perhaps remember this circumstance as interwoven with the incidents inWaverley, and as affording Home, the author of Douglas, the opportunity for which he longed, ofexperiencing the realities of war. ij * Tytler3 Hist., (Third Edition,) iii. 343. + Old Stat. Account, xx. 61. See Douglas Peerage, ii. 257. X New Stat. Account, Perthehire, 1229. § Tytler, v. 269. II Notes to Waverley, ii. 82. \ fill / ,.
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