Identifier: baronialecclesia00bill (find matches)
Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 Wiston-Glyn, A. W
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: Edinburg T.N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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was executed on the Castle Hill of Stirling, whence he might have seenrising in the distance the towers of Doune—the proud symbol of the greatnessfrom whence he had fallen. Doune became thenceforward a royal domain ; and in 1469, when Margaretof Denmark was married to James III., and the Scottish crown acquired theimportant accession of the islands of Orkney and Shetland, nominally as a securityfor the young Queens marriage portion, the castle and territories were destinedto the Queen as her part of her dowry should she survive her husband.;): It wassubsequently in the same manner secured to Margaret, daughter of Henry VII.,when she became the wife of James IV. In 1528, after this kings death, shemarried Lord Methven, with whose concurrence, and that of the young king, shegranted the custody of the castle to James Stuart, a younger brother of her ■■■■ Old Stat. Accuunt of Scollund, xx. 58. ; Tylers Hist, (Third Edition,) iii. 71. ? Tylers Hist., ^Third Edition,) iii. 343. p
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ANTIQliriKS OK SCOIl.ANl) 1,^ husband. The office was afterwards granted to him and his heirs in perpetualfeu-right by James V. This office had been enjoyed by the family of F.dmon-stone of Duntreath, and occasioned a deadly cjuarrel between the families, whichended in the assassination of the above James Stuart by Kdmonstone of Duntreath.But James, the son ot the above James Stuart, obtained full possession ot thecastle, and was afterwards created Lord Doune by charter, 1581.* Thedescendant of Stuart married a daughter of the Regent Murray, and the domainbecame and has remained the property ot the Earl of Moray, whose eldest sonderives trom it his title, f The castle has not been connected with many greathistorical events. Queen Mary is said to have resided in it, as in every greatScottish fortaiice ; and it is believed to have been here that, in 1580, her youngson had planned, under the guise of a hunting party, a project for revolutionisingthe government, and ridding himself of the

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