e caution and moderation of King William III., and his
principles of unlimited toleration, deprived the Cameronians of the
opportunity they ardently desired, to retaliate the injuries which they
had received during the reign of prelacy, and purify the land, as they
called it, from the pollution of blood. They esteemed the Revolution,
therefore, only a half measure, which neither comprehended the
rebuilding the Kirk in its full splendour, nor the revenge of the death
of the Saints on their persecutors.]

[Footnote 8: A celebrated wizard, executed at Edinburgh for sorcery and
other crimes.]

[Footnote 9: The reader is referred for particulars to Pitscottie's
_History of Scotland_.]

II

GHOST STORIES FROM LOCAL RECORDS, FOLK LORE AND LEGEND

XVIII

GLAMIS CASTLE

Local Records

"The Castle of Glamis, a venerable and majestic pile of buildings," says
an old Scots Gazetteer, "is situate about one mile north from the
village, on the flat grounds at the confluence of the Glamis Burn and
the Dean. There is a print of it given by Slezer in Charles II.'s
reign--by which it appears to have been anciently much more extensive,
being a large quadrangular mass of buildings, having two courts in
front, with a tower in each, and gateway through below them; and on the
northern side was the principal tower, which now constitutes the central
portion of the present castle upwards of 100 feet in height. The
building received the addition of a tower, in one of its angles, for a
spiral staircase from bottom to top, with conical roofs. The wings were
added, at the same time, by Patrick Earl of Strathmore, who repaired and
modernised the structure, under the directions of Inigo Jones. One of
the wings has been renovated within the last forty years, and other
additions made, but not in harmony with Earl Patrick's repairs.

"_There is also a secret room in it, only known to two or at most three
individuals, at the same time, who are bound not to reveal it, unless to
their successors in the secret._ It has been frequently the object of
search with the inquisitive, but the search has been in vain. There are
no records of the castle prior to the tenth century, when it is first
noticed in connection with the death of Malcolm II. in 1034. Tradition
says that he was murdered in this castle, and in a room which is still
pointed out, in the centre of the principal tower; and that the
murderers lost their way in the darkness of t