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DUNNOTTAR See also:CASTLE , a ruined stronghold, on the See also:east See also:coast of See also:Kincardineshire, See also:Scotland, about 2 M. S. of See also:Stonehaven. It stands on a See also:rock 16o ft. high, with a See also:summit See also:area of 4 acres, and surrounded on three sides by the See also:sea. It is accessible from the See also:land by a winding path leading across a deep chasm, to the See also:outer See also:gate in a See also:wall of enormous thickness. It is supposed that a fortress stood here since perhaps the 7th See also:century, but the existing castle See also:dates from 1392, when it was begun by See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Keith (d. 1407), See also:great marischal of Scotland. The keep and See also:chapel are believed to be the See also:oldest structures, most of the other buildings being two centuries later. It was the See also:residence of the earls marischal and was regarded as impregnable. Here the seventh See also:earl entertained See also:Charles II. before the See also:battle of See also:Worcester. When See also:Cromwell became See also:Protector, the Scottish See also:regalia were lodged in the castle for greater See also:security, and, in 1651, when the See also:Commonwealth soldiers laid successful See also:siege to it, they were saved by a woman's wit. Mrs See also:Granger, wife of the See also:minister of Kinneff, a See also:parish about 6 m. to the S., was allowed to visit the wife of the See also:governor, See also:Ogilvy of See also:Barras, and when she rode out she was See also:spinning See also:lint on a See also:distaff. The See also:crown was concealed in her See also:lap, and the distaff consisted of the See also:sword and See also:sceptre. The regalia were hidden beneath the flagstones in the parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, whence they were recovered at the Restoration. In 1685 the castle was converted into a See also:Covenanters' See also:prison, no fewer than 167 being confined in a See also:dungeon, called therefrom the Whigs' Vault. On the See also:- ATTAINDER (from the O. Fr. ataindre, ateindre, to attain, i.e. to strike, accuse, condemn; Lat. attingere, tangere, to touch; the meaning has been greatly affected by the confusion with Fr. taindre, teindre, to taint, stain, Lat. tingere, to dye)
attainder of See also:George, tenth and last marischal, for his See also:share in the earl of See also:Mar's rising in 1715 the castle was dismantled (1720).
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