Publications of the Scottish History Society

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ANE TRUE ACCOMPT OF THE PRESERVATION OF THE HONORS The Earll Marshall being tacken prisoner at Eliot, i obtened leave to send a gentell man to his mother [pretejnding to give notice for a provision of monay, evry thing [being] tacken from him by the English, but his aprahencion [of] the danger of the honours was that which stuck deapest in his heart. Therfor with this gentell man he derected the key of the place wher the honours were to his mother. The next day she went to the Castell of Dunnotter, and had not stayed tuo hours, when advertised that the English were to quarter sum shouldiers n[ear] to the Castell that night, upon which being fofrced to] flay, yet be for she stured caused to open the roum and did tack out the honours and delivred them hir self to Georg Ogalvie (Captan of the Castall by the Earll Marshall's apoyntment) and charged him, whither hie should be nesesitat to capatilat, or other ways, he should secur them, giving him asurance of all hir posible asistance in evry thing, which he chearfuly undertouk. The day foulowing the enamie marched to Aberdeen, and shortly after returning did put a garison in Fitersso, the Countas of Marshall's joyntour hous, within tuo mils of the Castell from stoping it from provison or coraspon- dance with the Cuntry. Sum tym ther after the enamie having required him to surender the Castle,2 resolved that it were the securest way to remove the honours, where being conveyed to Mr. JamesGranger, a preachers house did . . . which he afterwards caried and put them underground in the church, as his testificat under his handl doth yet declayr the perticular places they were laid in in case he should die. The castle afterward being surendred,2 the Captan (upon bale when cald to apear) was dismised unchalinged for the honours, but havi..