Aberdeen University Studies, Issues 102-103University of Aberdeen, 1926 |
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Page 11 - I rode with him from his house, where I saw the ruins of an old castle, called the castle of Kindroghit. It was built by King Malcolm Canmore, (for a hunting house,) who reigned in Scotland, when Edward the Confessor, Harold, and Norman William, reigned in England.
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Page 11 - Benawne with a furrd'd mist upon his snowy head instead of a night-cap; for you must understand, that the oldest man alive never saw but the snow was on the top of divers of those hills, (both in summer as well as in winter...
Page 10 - Nos. 15-27. 1921. No. 82. — Subject Catalogue of Cruickshank Science Library. „ No. 83.— Physical Geology of the Don Basin. Alexander Bremner, D.Sc.
Page 11 - Hill, Hampstead Hill, Birdlip Hill, or Malvern's Hills, are but mole-hills in comparison, or like a liver, or a gizard under a capon's wing, in respect of the altitude of their tops, or perpendicularity of their bottoms.
Page 22 - The manner of the hunting is this : five or six hundred men doe rise early in the morning, and they doe disperse themselves divers wayes, and seven, eight, or ten miles compasse, they doe bring or chase in the deer in many heards (two, three, or four hundred in a heard) to such or such a place, as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then . when day is come, the lords and gentlemen of their companies doe ride or goe...
Page 136 - Castle was held by Stephen de Brampton for Edward I, and in 1298-9 was besieged by the Scots, who stormed it after a tedious blockade of more than fourteen months. In his report to the English king, de Brampton tells how he defended the castle "against the power of Scotland for a year and nine weeks, to his great loss and misfortune, as all his companions died in the castle except himself and those with him who were taken by famine and by assault.
Page 36 - ... towers upon the curtain, larger and stronger than the others, furnished usually with its own water-supply, and capable of isolation from the rest of the castle, so that it formed a last resort or citadel, wherein resistance could be maintained even after the curtain had been mined, breached, or scaled. This type of castle was in use throughout Scotland during the 1 3th century.
Page 108 - ... above the roofs, with granaries, stables, and houses for all cattle, and of the vermine attending them, close adjoining...