Identifier: elphinstonefamil01fras (find matches)
Title: The Elphinstone family book of the lords Elphinstone, Balmerino and Coupar
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Fraser, William, Sir, 1816-1898. 1n
Subjects: Elphinstone family
Publisher: Edinburgh (Printed by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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the Earl and Countess of Dunmore. DunmorePark and the new church and burial-ground absorbed the site of the oldtower of Elphinstone. After the church and burial-ground were completeda lithograph was printed both of the church and ground. This lithographhas been specially collotyped aud is here included. VL The Barony of Eeth or Airth acquired by Sir John Elphinstone,Knight, of Elphinstone, in 1497. Before obtaining the erection of the new barony of Elphinstone in 1504,Sir John Elphinstone acquired from his kinsman, Patrick, Lord Lindesay ofthe Byres, the lands and barony of Airth and the lands of Cragorth inthe shire of Stirling.^ The Erths of Erth and their castle of the samename are associated in history with Sir William Wallace, and, in latertimes, the barony and castle of Airth have been long identified with a branchof the family of Bruce. 1 Charter of Airth, dated 5th November 1497. Confirmation by King James the Fourth,dated 21st November 1498, both in Elphinstone charter-chest.
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HISTORY OF THE BARONY AND CASTLE OF AIRTH. XtO\l One of the many exploits of Wallace, performed during the arduousstruggle for the liberty of his country, is associated with the originalcastle of Erth. The metrical minstrel of the warrior has related at lengthhis daring and successful attack on the castle. Pushing south from Perthtowards Stirling, Wallace was stopped there by the English. He hasteneddown the north side of the Forth to the ferry of Erth, and obtained a boatto ferry him across the Firth. Erth Castle was then governed by Thomlynof Ware, who was a hard ruler of the district. Wallace succeeded in puttinghim and all the English soldiers to death. The tower on the west side ofthe present castle of Erth is still called Wallaces Tower, and the turn-pike stair is still shown as the place where Wallace killed the Englishgarrison. In The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, by E. W.Billings, architect, there is a beautiful drawing of Airth Castle. There arealso de

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