Inverurie And The Earldom Of The Garioch A Topographical And Historical Account Of The Garioch From The Earliest Times To The Revolution Settlement With A Genealogical Appendix Of Garioch Families Flourishing At The Period Of The Revolution Settlement A PDF Download

Excerpt from Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch: A Topographical and Historical Account of the Garioch From the Earliest Times to the Revolution Settlement, With a Genealogical Appendix of Garioch Families Flourishing at the Period of the Revolution Settlement and Still Represented The following contribution to local history had its origin in a natural wish on the part of the author to know as much as could be ascertained with certainty of the early history of his own parish. The publications of the Spalding Club and kindred antiquarian societies have suggested and facilitated many such inquiries. In the present case the antiquities of a Royal Burgh, which had been obscure for centuries among the Scottish municipalities, became a tempting subject of research after the discovery that the burgh was in existence before A.D. 1200; to which fact, as a piece of curious information, the author's attention was drawn by the late Dr. Joseph Robertson when that gentleman was editing Volume IV. of the Spalding Club "Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff." A minute examination of a number of the authentic documents printed by the same Club, brought to light other highly interesting particulars respecting individual dwellers in the Burgh of Inverurie, or its neighbourhood, in long past times; while other works by historical antiquarians and local discoveries of prehistoric remains furnished matter introductory to a continuous memoir of the topography of Inverurie and the Garioch, and of recorded inhabitants of the district from the time when Saxon civilisation was introduced into it by Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret. The peculiar position of the Earldom of the Garioch in Scottish history, led to an investigation as to what families and estates were of local importance at the successive epochs of David of Huntingdon's Earldom, and the battles of Inverurie and Harlaw, and during the long period when the Lordship of the Garioch was withheld, along with the Earldom of Mar, by the Stuart kings from the hereditary claimants - the Erskines, descended from Elyne, daughter of Gartney Earl of Mar, and Christian, Lady of the Garioch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.