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Angus had conveyed them to Janet without the 

 necessary royal licence ; and when the lover claimed 

 his bride without the lands, he was promptly im- 

 prisoned in Dunbarton Castle. His faithless love 

 bore a son to her paramour, being then at Doune 

 Castle, as shown by the following entry in the 

 accounts : 



'Item. ye xx day of December (1501) for viii elne 

 small quhit (white) to be blancatis and wylycottis (blankets 

 and petticoats) to ye barne (child) in Doun, ilk elne iis. 

 viiid., summa xxiis vine?.' 



This 'barne' lived to become James, Earl of 

 Moray, and his mother was splendidly endowed 

 with the lands and castle of Darnaway. But the 

 King gave Doune to his consort, Margaret Tudor, 

 who in turn passed it on to her third husband, 

 Henry Stuart, from whom it has descended to the 

 Earl of Moray, its present possessor. 



The castle was greatly dilapidated in 1745, when 

 Prince Charlie's white ensign floated over the keep ; 

 it will be remembered that Waverley was taken 

 there after parting with the gifted Gilfillan. It was 

 here also that John Home, the poet, was confined 

 with other prisoners taken by the Jacobites at the 

 battle of Falkirk. Six of them, including Home, 



