Identifier: morefamoushomeso00mala (find matches)
Title: More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, Alfred Henry, comp
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ngfully convicted ! Lady Glamis and heryoung son were both sentenced to be burned, and the estate ofGlamis was forfeited and annexed to the Crown by Act of Parlia-ment, December 3, 1S40. However, these brutal judges, onaccount of the extreme youth of Lord Glamis, feared to bringhim to execution, so the boy was kept in prison, with the deathsentence hanging over him, while the beautiful Lady Glamis wasdragged forth and burned at the stake on the Castle Hill ofEdinburgh, July 17, is^7. Those were days when acts of vio-lence and cruelty were regarded with an indifference that wecannot now realise, although when she stood up in her beautyto undergo this fearful sentence, it is recorded that all headswere bowed in sorrowful sympathy. When this infamous exe-cution was accomplished, remorse seems to have come overCampbell, who was visited by visions of his victim looking athim with sad, reproachful eyes. When, some years later, hisdeath was drawing nigh, he confessed that his evidence at the
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105 106 (Blamis trial was altogether false. Lord Glamis was therefore releasedfrom prison, and his estates and honours restored. To return to the Castle. The exterior is much ornamentedwith ancient armorial bearings in carved stone of the principalEarls since 1606, quartered with those of their separate wives,among them the Murray, Panmure, Ogilvey, and Middletonquarterings. Above one window the initials of Patrick, first Earlof Kinghorne, and of Dame Anna Murray, his wife, daughter ofthe first Earl of Tullibardine, are placed, while a round niche overthe front door contains a bust of Earl Patrick, of whom mentionwill be made presently. The principal entrance is a strikingfeature. The doorway is small and low, and a stout, iron-clinched oaken door, thickly studded with nails, is guarded onthe inside by a heavily grated iron gate, which opens right on tothe great staircase. A flight of steps to the right of the entranceleads down to the dungeons, vaults, and the old well (now filledup)

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