y against Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar. Towards
the end of the 17th century Mungo Haldane was an active member of the
Scottish Parliament; his son John was member for Perth County in the
last Scottish Parliament, and in the first British Parliament after the
Union. At the beginning of the present century the estate passed into
the hands of Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, and is now the property of
his descendant, the Earl of Camperdown. The old castle, of solid
walls, surrounded by a moat, was superseded in 1624 by the modern Place
of Gleneagles, built from the ruins. Locally, the family is best
remembered in one of its Presbyterian members, an ardent respecter of
the Sabbath. He forbade the keeping of stalls and selling of wares on
the Kirk Brae on the Lord's Day; and, finding his injunction slighted,
was so roused that he went next Sunday with drawn sword, scattered the
offending merchants down the brae, and tossed their wares into the lake
beneath. There was no more Sunday trading at the kirk.

East of Gleneagles, overlooking its own deep wooded glen, stood
Kincardine Castle, the residence of the noble family of Graham. The
estate came to them from Malise, Earl of Strathearn, who granted it to
his sister Amabil on her marriage with Sir David Graham, c. 1250.[10]
The Grahams, as Earls, Marquises, and Dukes of Montrose, retained
Kincardine till the beginning of this century, when it was sold to
James Johnston, Esq. Many a fact and many a fancy attach to the old
Kincardine. In 1579, the Earl of Atholl, Chancellor of Scotland,
stayed at Kincardine on his way from Stirling, and suddenly took ill
and died. The crime was never absolutely proved, but evidence went far
to show that some rival had given him poisoned food at Stirling.
During the boyhood of the great Marquis, Kincardine Castle was the
principal residence of the family, and the young Lord James was a
well-known figure in the neighbourhood. When his father died in 1626,
the funeral took one month and nineteen days to accomplish; and the
accomplishment was attended with such a consumpt of good things as
makes it hard to see where room was left for mourning. When Montrose
attended the General Assembly of 1638, he sat as commissioner for the
Presbytery of Auchterarder, from which we may conclude that he was
still closely associated with Kincardine. With the great Marquis the
story of Kincardine Castle ends. In 1646, being Montrose's principal
house,