Evening star., 1923-05-24
Bestowing of Honor ON Lord Kentore
Recalls Ancestors Aid to Scotland

to his satisfaction, and was so pleased,
indeed, that. much to her embarrass-
ment. he insisted upon himself as
sisting her to mount her horse. She
reached her husband in safety and
at the dead of night he and she dug
hole in front of the pulpit in the
parish church at kineff, where the
the stone being thereupon replaced
In such a manner as to leave no trace
that it had been raised. The sword
of state and the orb were hidden in
similar manner under the stone
tagging near the western entrance
of the church. a fortnight after
ward. Dunnotar Castle surrendered,
and. some doubts having arisen in the
mind of Gen. Lambert as to whether
Sir John Keith had really carried the
regalia away with him to France.
George Ogilvie and his wife and
eventually the Rev. Christian and
Mrs. Granger were subjected. not
only to a searching examination. but
even TO torture in order to induce
them to disclose what had become of
the regalia. Nothing, however could
force them to admit anything beyond
the fact that they believed Sir John
Keith to have carried off the crown.
the scepter, the orb and the sword of
state TO the continent.
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Under the floor of the parish
church of Kineff, the regalia remained
hidden from view for the following
nine years. until after the restora-
tion of Charles III they were un-
earthed and turned over to Charles
II. The latter bestowed a large
monetary reward upon the Graingers,
of which the record remains in an
act of parliament dated 1861. while
money and a knighthood were granted
to Lieut.. Gov. George Ogilvie. Sir
John keith's services in the matter
were acknowledged by his elevation
to the peerage. first at Lord Keith
of Inveruire and then as Lord Kin
tore. az we'll as by his appointment
as hereditary knight marischal of
Scotland. The second Earl of Kintore
joined the rising in behalf of the
Stuarts in IT'S and was at the battle
of Sherriffmuir. He was succeeded
by his first and second sons and then
to the remainder of the grant Of the
earldom of Kintore. have gone to
George and James Keith, sons of the
elder brother of the first earl.
Both George Keith, de jure earl
marisehal of Scotland. and his brother
James had, however, been attained
by parliament for their devotion to
the Stuart cause. and while George II
of England was ready, in Difference to
the pressing Intervention of his
mother-in-Iaw and Frederick the
Great, their friend. to allow them
the possession of their estates in
Scotland, he would not permit them
to succeed to the earldoR of Kintore.
They neither of them married and
while the younger of the two. James,
fell in the battle of Hochkirchen,
serving under Frederick the Great
as a Prussian field marshal, George
Keith, the earl marischal, on the in
vitation of that monarch took up his
residence with him at Potsdan. Not
Kintore pass to the eighth Lord Fall
coner as the grandson of Katherine,
only daughter Of the second Earl of
Kintore, who had married the fifth
Lord Falconer, the Falconers being
descended from Ranulphus De@Lun-
kyir, who was royal falcoIrer to
King William the Lion. the barony
of Falconer being created to this
lineal descendant in 1647. The, title
of Lord Faiconer is now borne BY the
elder surviving son of Lord Kintore,
whose wife is a daughter of the sixth
Duke of Manchester. Lord Falconer
is captain of the Scots Guards, with
which he served in France through
out the great war, having previously
taken part in the Boer campaign of
quarter of a century ago, and put
In a couple of years at Buenos Aires
as honorary secretary of the British
legation there. He Is still unmarried,
although his name has frequently
been put forward In print as the
prospective husband Of. some-Ameri-
can heiress CT wealthy Midow:-.z4 -.