Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563786
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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St Catherine's Dub, the dark, cliff-girt, bay at Collieston, is traditionally the site of the sinking of a Spanish Armada ship. It was, in fact, a ship from the Spanish Netherlands gun-running for Francis, eighth Earl of Erroll's Catholic uprising in 1594. He died in 1631 and was buried 'upone the nicht' in the kirk at Slains. His body was 'convoyit quyetlie with his awin
domesticks and countrie freindis and with torche licht'. It was the Earl's wish that the expense saved should be given to the poor. He was celebrated by Arthur Johnston thus:
'Nascentem placido te vidit
lumine Pallas,
Mens apta est studius prurit in
arma manus.
(Pallas with kindly eye looked
on thy birth,
Fitted is thy mind for learned
pursuits - thy hand in
deeds of battle excels.)'
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
