The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)
Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 · Edinburgh W. Paterson · leaf 288
ld, he kept the enemy still engaged, till he was shot thi-ough boththe calves of the legs.§ The fortunes of the house, like those of many another Scottish family,were probably consumed by the fever of the Darien scheme, in which Alexander Forbes ofTolquhon appears to have embarked beyond his means,… … THE CASTLE OF TOWIE BARCLAY. A STRANGER in search of ancient fortresses would hardly recognise in the stunted farm-houseof Towic, on the Banff road, midway between Fyvie Castle and Turrif, the once important castleof the Barclays of Tolly.* It had stood entire, even including its battlements, until…
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