St Margaret's, Forgue, with Notices of Frendraught, Lessendrum [&C.]. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... FRENDRAUGHT. "Tristis el infelix et semper inhospita turns." Thus wrote Dr Arthur Johnston, the famous Latin poet of Caskieben, epigrammatically embodying the popular suspicion of the time as to a sad event that took place at Frendraught. Like another "Auld Rhymer," he, weird like, comes on at the drop scene of a sad tragedy with a woe upon Frendraught, "O sad and unhappy and ever inhospitable tower." Ferendrach or Frendraught, though, for many a long year sombre and solitary, had once its day of glory, and was no sad and inhospitable tower. The gayest of the gay were there. It was long the chief baronial residence of a twice ennobled family, the Crichtons of Crichton and Frendraught. The following are the various families of Frendraught: I. THE LINE OF THE KNIGHTLY HOUSE OF FRENDRAUGHT OF FRENDRAUGHT: The earliest account we have of Frendraught is about 1203, when Michael de Ferendrach appears as a witness to a charter given by William the Lyon. (Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, p. 322.) In 1257, Pope Alexander the IV. confirmed to the Abbot and convent of Arbroath the grant which had been made without the consent of the Bishop of Aberdeen to William de Ferendrach of the patronage of the church of Ferendrach, with right to apply the fruits of the benefice, estimated at 30 merks, to their own proper use.--(View of the Diocese, p. 520.) Where this church was situated is unknown; but Forgue and Frendraught were spoken of as separate parishes as late as 1699. When Theodore Morison was retoured heir to his father, George Morison, in the town and lands of Bognie, Pennieburn, Conzie, and Pitfancy, with the mill and teinds, third part of Foggiemoss, it is thus expressed, "Omnibus in Parochia de Frendraught et Parochia de Forg."--(Jervise, Epitaphs II., p. 170.) In ...

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