llowed the disaster which overtook his cause; the old
castle, abandoned as a dwelling-place, fell into decay; and a
philistine farmer carted off the last stone of it to build field dykes.

In a M.S. book of Sir John Ogilvy, her Master of the Household, we
learn that Queen Mary stayed at Kincardine and Tullibardine on a
journey which she made to the North in 1562. Having left Edinburgh on
August 11th, "she continued at Stirling until the 18th of August, when
she set out from thence with a part of her train, and dined and supped
at Kincardine. On the 19th she left Kincardine after dinner, and slept
at St. Johnston." On the return journey, leaving St. Johnston on the
16th November, she "slept at Tulliebarne. On the 17th she proceeded
after dinner to Drummond." Twenty years later these same castles were
again favoured with a Royal visitor, King James VI. The visit to
Tullibardine happened in August, 1584, and the motive of it was typical
of that monarch's way. Moysie's Memoirs, which chronicle the visit,
narrate that the King had been living ten days at Ruthven "or ever he
knew there wes sex houssis infectit in Perthe, his seruandis being
theare; and thairfoir with a few number the samyn nycht depairted to
Tullibardin, and from that to Sterling, leavand his haill housald and
seruandis encloisit in Ruthven." The visit to Kincardine is inferred
from a letter written by Thomas, tutor of Cassillis, to the Laird of
Barnbarroch, dated 10th October, 1585--"As for newis, it is trew my
lord arrane was to have been in Kincarne upone Saterday last, and thair
to have given his presens to the King, and the King thocht guid to stay
him thereof for the ambassadouris causs being with his majestie, sua my
lord hes nocht presentit the King as yit."

Early in this century the estate of Tullibardine was sold to Viscount
Strathallan, who had married Amelia, daughter of the Duke of Atholl.
Tullibardine thus became attached to the adjoining estate of Machany,
long possessed by the Drummonds. The Laird of Machany and Viscount
Strathallan were united first in William Drummond of Machany, who
succeeded his cousin as fourth Viscount Strathallan. True to the
traditions of his House and title, the fourth Viscount was a loyal and
devoted Jacobite. He fought in 1715, and again in 1745, when he was
killed at Culloden. After his death the penalty of his ill-fated zeal
descended on his family. His wife Margaret, daughter of Lord Nairne,
was ta