A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . rdeen, and in the patronage ofAlexander Morison, Esq., of Bognie. The ministersstipend is about £190, with an excellent manse, and aglebe of about twelve acres, valued at £18 per church, situated upon a gentle eminence, is a neat,commodious, and substantial edifice, built in 1819, andcontaining 900
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . rdeen, and in the patronage ofAlexander Morison, Esq., of Bognie. The ministersstipend is about £190, with an excellent manse, and aglebe of about twelve acres, valued at £18 per church, situated upon a gentle eminence, is a neat,commodious, and substantial edifice, built in 1819, andcontaining 900 sittings. The members of the FreeChurch have a place of worship, and there is a smallepiscopal chapel. The parochial school affords instruc-tion in Latin and mathematics, with all the elementarybranches ; the master has a salary of £34, a house andgarden, a portion of the Dick bequest, and £20 is a savings bank ; and the poor not on the roilenjoy the benefit of a charitable bequest of £20 per an-num. The antiquities comprise the remains of severalDruidical temples ; vestiges of a Roman redoubt, as issupposed ; and the ruins of the ancient castle of Fren-draught, at the conflagration of the tower of which, in1630, Viscount Aboyne, eldest son of the Marquess of461. Burgh Seal. Huntly, and four others, perished. The AdmirableCrichton, who flourished about the middle of the six-teenth century, is said to have been born at Frendraught,the principal seat of the family, and from which they de-rived the title of Viscount. FORRES, a royal burghand a parish, in the countyof Elgin, 12 njiles (W. by S.)from Elgin ; containing 3711inhabitants, of whom 2844are in the burgh. This place,the name of which, in theGaelic language, is descrip-tive of its situation on theriver and bay of Findhorn,has by some historians beenidentified with the Jaris ofPtolemy, and is celebratedfor its ancient castle, in which Duffus, King of Scotland,was treacherously murdered by the governor, in 966
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