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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Inchbrakie, a mansion in Crieff parish, Perthshire, 3 miles E by N of Crieff town. It contains a curious carefully preserved relic of olden superstition known as Inchbrakie's Ring and similar in character to the ' talisman, of Sir Walter Scott's novel. It is a bluish uncut sapphire, set in gold, which, in the second decade of last century, the Witch of Monzie, Kate M 'Niven, as she was burning on the Knock of Crieff, is said to have spat from her mouth, with the prediction that the Græmes should prosper so long as they kept it safe, the Laird of Inchbrakie having vainly attempted to save her life. In 1513 the first of these Græmes received Inchbrakie, with Fowlis and Aberuthven, from his father the first Earl of Montrose; and his descendant, Patrick James Frederick Græme, Esq. (b. 1849; suc. 1854), holds 5088 acres in the shire, valued at £3212 per annum. Inchbrakie Castle, a little ESE of the mansion, was surrounded by a moat, and suffered demolition by Cornwall in 1651 for the fifth laird's zealous adherence to the Royalist cause. A beautiful, well-wooded park surrounds the mansion and the remains of the castle, and contains a. very old yew tree, the second largest, it is said, in Scotland, which is believed to have given refuge, in a time of danger, to the Marquis of Montrose.—Ord. Sur., sh. 47, 1869.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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