Ancient castles and mansions of Stirling nobility / described and illustrated by J.S. Fleming (1902)
Fleming, James Sturk · Paisley : A. Gardner, 1902 · leaf 244
st son, succeeded to the estates as heir, on a Precept of Clare fromWilliam Forbes, proprietor of Callendar estate, the superior. This estate which had remained in the ancient Bruce family forfive centuries was sold, about twenty years ago, to Mr. Sheriff ofCarronvale, who still possesses it.… … CHAPTER AAV. Clackmannan Tower. ™*HIS conspicuous feudal edifice, predominating over the valley ofthe Forth, is stated to have been erected by King Robert theBruce as a hunting-seat, and it descended to his successors the Broysof Clackmannan, his other kinsmen being the Bruces of Airth,…
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