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The Gordons of Gight – 5 of 9 ידי arjayempee

The passage leading from the front door to the main turnpike stair, passes three vaulted cellars such as this one, with its defensive gunloop. On with the story of William Gordon: (Continued from previous photo) . . . . . The year of 1591 saw various punitive raids against Clan Chattan and the Grants. According to the records: “Huntly sent Allan Macdonuill-Duibh into Badenoch against the Clan Chattan, where after a sharp skirmish, the Clan Chattan were chased off, and above fifty of them slain. Then Huntly sent MacRonald against the Grants, who invaded Strathspey, killing eighteen of them, and wasting all Ballindalloch's lands”. Then in February 1592, Huntly received news in Edinburgh, that Moray had recently arrived at his castle of Donibristle in Fife. Huntly at once set out “with forty gentlemen”, among whom were William Gordon of Gight, his brother Captain John Gordon and Thomas Gordon of Cluny, whose brother had been slain by “The Bonny Earl’s” servant at Darnaway. Captain John Gordon was sent up to the castle by Huntly, to “desire the earl of Moray to give over the house, and render himself up” but as he approached the castle (having apparently not learned much from events at Darnaway!), he was shot and severely wounded. The Gordons then promptly attacked the castle and succeeded in setting fire to it, and although Moray at first managed to escape from the flames, the Gordons it is said, tracked him down by the flames from a silken tassel that had caught fire on his night cap as he escaped from the burning castle! It was said afterwards that Huntly gave orders that the earl should be taken alive (but he would say that, wouldn't he!), however the laird of Cluny, whose brother had been slain at Darnaway and the laird of Gight, whose brother lay “deadly wounded before his eyes”, caught up with him on the seashore and stabbed him to death. It is also said (by some sources, but not all) that it was William Gordon of Gight that struck the final and fatal blows, with a dagger to the earl’s face, earning himself the Bonny Earl’s dying words “you have spoiled a better face than your own”! Huntly, perhaps sensing the trouble that was to come, withdrew to the safety of his northern lands, leaving Captain John Gordon, who was too badly wounded to travel, at Inverkeithing. He was captured there by the former Earl of Moray’s supporters, and after a quick trail, executed at Edinburgh “being scarce able to live one day longer for his wound received at Donnibristle”. The evidence of the vicious murder can still be seen, for the Bonnie Earl’s outraged mother, herself badly burned in the fire, commissioned a portrait of his mutilated body, which still hangs at Darnaway Castle. In March of 1592, the Privy Council denounced the Earl of Huntly “and others concerned in the affair” as rebels, but this order appears to have been made more for form’s sake than anything else. Huntly was ordered to ward himself in Blackness castle, which he did for a while, and the others were ordered to ward themselves in Edinburgh castle, which “they neglected to do”! This incident in many ways demonstrates the fundamental unfairness about the legal system in those days, in that a great man, such as an earl, was often considered accountable for the actions of his men, but was at the same time, too powerful to be punished. So it was, that less than a year later, the records show that “The king gave anew to William Gordon “de Geight”, the lands of Fyvie, which included Maktarie, Blachrie, Badichellis, Murefunlands and Swanford, which William Meldrum of Moncoffer, brother of George of Fyvie, resigned”. But the Donibristle affair was not forgotten. In 1594, James VI, who was strongly Protestant himself, and keen to please Elizabeth I of England, whose throne he was hoping to inherit, agreed to a request by Elizabeth to forfeit the three catholic earls of Scotland - Gordon, Earl of Huntly, Hay Earl of Erroll and Douglas Earl of Angus. Huntly’s position of Lieutenant of the North, was given to the Campbell Earl of Argyll, who was pleased to take up this challenge, particularly as it diverted attention away from the fact that he had been receiving money from Elizabeth to further English interests in Scotland, and also as it gave him the opportunity to revenge his brother-in-law, the earl of Moray! (Continued next photo)
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