Identifier: baronialecclesia00bill (find matches)
Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 Wiston-Glyn, A. W
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: Edinburg T.N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Ck.\l(;lK\AR CASTI.K, S.W. ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 9I Hailes believed to be as old as the days of the renowned usurper. Thesematters, however, carry us into an earlier period of history than any withwhich Craigievar Castle can be associated. The domain belonged of oldto the family of Mortimer, who are said to have commenced the buildingof the castle, but lacked funds for its completion.* It was purchased in1611 by William Forbes of Menie, a cadet of the worshipful family ofForbes of Corse, who had a history, then rare among the Scottish countrygentlemen, as we are told that he, by his diligent merchandising inDenmark and other parts became extraordinary rich. He completed thiscastle, says the same writer, and plaistcred it very curiously. f His sonand successor, William, was created a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1630. SirWilliam Forbes was one of the few Aberdeenshire lairds who, in the troublesof the seventeenth century, adopted the cause of the Covenant. He wasone of the Commissioners

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