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for understanding DSP concepts and methods. The book contains detailed
spectral analysis, sinusoidal signal analysis, and the effect of noise. There
Mill of Tifty is still ‘to the fore,’ and the effigy of the trumpeter points his
trumpet in its direction; and the ballad seems to have some truth in it, for
the tombstone of the unfortunate Annie—her real name was Agnes Smith—
was till recently in Fyvie kirkyard, being now replaced by a handsome
monument; and documents show that her father was owner of the mill in
1672.
The castle as it now stands—there is supposed to have been an older castle
or keep—is believed to date from about 1397, the oldest tower extant
having been built by Sir Henry Preston—of the family of Preston of
Craigmillar—who fought at Otterburn, and who acquired the estate from Sir
James de Lindsay, ‘Dominus de Crawfurd et Buchan.’ From the Prestons,
the estate passed by marriage into a family called Meldrum; but the family
most associated with the castle is the family named after it. In 1596, Fyvie
was purchased from the Meldrums by Alexander Seton, third son of
George, sixth Lord Seton, and brother of the first Earl of Winton. This
Alexander Seton was first created Lord Fyvie, and then Earl of Dunfermline
—the former title being apparently used by the family in the north. He was
a lawyer-statesman of great ability and influence, and a favourite councillor
of James I.’s. He held a number of state and judicial offices, being
successively President of the Court of Session and Lord Chancellor of
Scotland; and he was the King’s Commissioner to the Scotch parliament of
1612, which rescinded the Act of 1592 establishing the Presbyterian system
of church government. The second Lord Fyvie took a prominent part, under
Montrose, in the operations against the Covenanters, and afterwards lived
abroad with Charles II., and shared in the honours distributed at the
restoration of the Merry Monarch. The fourth and last peer fought at
Killiecrankie on the royalist side, was outlawed, and died at St Germain.
The estate, which had been forfeited to the Crown, was sold in 1726 to
William, second Earl of Aberdeen, who settled it on his eldest son by his
third wife, Lady Anne Gordon, sister of Lord Lewis Gordon—the ‘Lewie
Gordon’ of the Jacobite ballad; and it has since descended through members
of junior branches of the Gordon (Aberdeen) family. Its present proprietor
is Sir Maurice Duff-Gordon, son of Lady Duff-Gordon, whose pleasant
Letters from Egypt have not yet escaped memory.
It will thus be seen that a considerable historic interest attaches to the castle
that was so recently in the market. The domain of Fyvie, indeed, is said to
have been a royal chase at one time; and some would even have it that in
the reign of Robert the Bruce it was a royal residence, and was visited in
1296 by Edward I. on his progress through the north of Scotland. There is a
‘Queen Mary Room’ in the castle, and some good specimens of the
furniture of Mary’s period, though it is doubtful if Mary herself ever
occupied the room. The great Marquis of Montrose, who certainly
encamped once in the neighbourhood of the castle, is reported to have spent
a night under its roof; and a century later, the Duke of Cumberland marched
through the policies of Fyvie on his way to Culloden.
Turning from the historical to the legendary, we have a prophecy of Thomas
the Rhymer’s respecting Fyvie:
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