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County of Perth -- Parish of Monzievaird and Strowan

"An account,
illustrative of the parishes, drawn up by the
Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Porteous, formerly minister of Monivaird,
will be found in Part I. Vol. [Volume] 2 of the transactions of the Society of Antiquarians.
From this compilation, the writer of the present Account has derived various points
of interesting information. It is there stated, that the plague ravaged Monivaird
in the reign of Charles I. "An old man," says the writer, "informed me that his father, having
recovered at that time, was a cleanser; and told him, that, when this fatal disease was laying
in the parish, one gentleman caused many huts to be built, and ordered all who perceived
that they were infected, immiedately to repair unto them. That particularly, the family
of Ochtertyre caused observation to be made every morning whether the wind blew from the east
or west. That they sent provisions of all kinds to them, but gave their servants strict orders,
if the wind blew from the east, to lay them down a good way to the east of them; and
to the west, if it blew from the west; and that, some time after they were gone, the cleansers
took them up, and carried them to the diseased." The graves of those who then died of the
pestilence were still visible to the west of the Loch of Monivaird when the account
was compiled. Statistical Account