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HUNTINGTOWER AND RUTHVENFIELD

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUNTINGTOWER AND RUTHVENFIELD , a See also:

village of See also:Perthshire, See also:Scotland, on the See also:Almond, 3 M. N.W. of See also:Perth, and within 1 m. of Almondbank station on the Caledonian railway. Pop. (1901) 459. See also:Bleaching, the See also:chief See also:industry, See also:dates from 1774, when the bleaching-See also:field was formed. By means of an old See also:aqueduct, said to have been built by the See also:Romans, it was provided with See also:water from the Almond, the properties of which render it specially suited for bleaching. Huntingtower (originally See also:Ruthven) See also:Castle, a once formidable structure, was the See also:scene of the See also:Raid of Ruthven (pron. Rivven), when the See also:Protestant lords, headed by See also:William, 4th See also:Lord Ruthven and 1st See also:earl of See also:Gowrie (1J41-1584), kidnapped the boy-See also:king See also:James VI., on the 22nd of See also:August 1582. The earl's sons were slain in the See also:attempt (known as the Gowrie See also:conspiracy) to See also:capture James VI. (1600), consequent on which the Scots See also:parliament ordered the name of Ruthven to be abolished, and the See also:barony to be known in future as Huntingtower.

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