Volume contents
- 1 - Fordoun , page 1 (start)
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- 221 - Fordoun , title page
- 222 - Fordoun , index
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kincardine Castle | [continued from page 186] Diary 4 of his journey as "a farour', or more distant "manour". He received no homages upon that occasion, but on returning Southward, he there spent according to one account, the 2nd and 3rd days of August, and according to another, the 4th of the same month, and received the homage of Randulph of Kynnard, chief of the noble family of that surname and title in Perthshire. It was in this castle also that King John Baliol's resignation to the crown of Scotland was written out, dated the 2nd day of July of the same year, which day Edward himself was at the Castle of Inverqueich in Perthshire. Tradition assigns a remote antiquity to the castle of Kincardine describing it as the scene of the assassination of Kenneth III, by the stratagem of Finella, wife of the Chief of the Mearns. Finella it is said was daughter of Conquhare, the Celtic Earl or Maormor of Angus, and her son being convicted of treason was put to death by order of Kenneth. Out of revenge she had the King murdered within the walls of Kincardine, her reputed residence, she having treacherously invited him into her castle while he was on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Palladius at Fordoun. Such is the story of Boyce, who relates the circumstance attending the murder with all the minuteness of an eye-witness, but less fanciful historians, such as Tytler, are of opinion that the King was waylaid or lured into a hunting match, and thus came unwittingly by his death, not within the Castle of Kincardine or by the poisoned darts of a brazen effigy as related by Boyce, but by the swords of a band of hired assassins. Wyntown, alluding to Finella's personal inability to put an end to the King says that "Scho couth nocht do that be mycht Scho mae thame traytouris by hyr slycht, while [continued on page 188] |
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Ordnance Survey - Kincardine county, OS Name Books - Kincardine county - Volume 9 - Parish of Fordoun, OS1/19/9
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Fordoun.
Ordnance Survey - Kincardine county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Kincardine, which is in the north east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.