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New Slains Castle, the Glossary

Slains Castle, also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from the nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.^[1]

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1590s establishments in Scotland
16th-century fortifications
Bram Stoker
Buildings and structures in Buchan
Clan Hay
Country houses in Aberdeenshire
Ruined castles in Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland

The Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland records buildings of national architectural or historic interest which are considered to be under threat.

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Canmore (database)

Canmore is an online database of information on over 320,000 archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings in Scotland.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll

Major General Charles Gore Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll, (7 February 1852 – 8 July 1927), styled Lord Hay until 1891, was a Scottish soldier and Conservative politician.

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Collieston

Collieston is a small former fishing village on the North Sea coast in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Cruden Bay

Cruden Bay is a small village in Scotland, on the north coast of the Bay of Cruden in Aberdeenshire, north of Aberdeen.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Dorothea Jordan

Dorothea Jordan (née Bland; 22 November 17615 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan.

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Dracula

Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.

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Earl of Erroll

There are currently two earldoms of Erroll, one in the Peerage of Scotland and one in the Baronage of Scotland. New Slains Castle and earl of Erroll are Clan Hay.

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Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll

Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll (née FitzClarence; 17 January 1801 – 16 January 1856) was an illegitimate daughter of King William IV of the United Kingdom and Dorothea Jordan.

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Ellerman Lines

Ellerman Lines was a UK cargo and passenger shipping company that operated from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century.

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Firebox (architecture)

A firebox or firepit is the part of the fireplace where fuel is combusted, in distinction from the hearth, chimney, mantel, overdoor and flue elements of the total fireplace system.

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Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll

Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll (30 April 156416 July 1631) was a Scottish nobleman.

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George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly

George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (156213 June 1636) was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century, and around the time of the Union of the Crowns.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.

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H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British politician and statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

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Historic Environment Scotland

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) (Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is an executive non-departmental public body responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland's historic environment.

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Jacobite rising of 1745

The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.

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James Francis Edward Stuart

James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 16881 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs and the King over the Water by Jacobites, was the son of King James VII and II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena.

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James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton

Lieutenant-General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon, KG, KT (11 April 1658 – 15 November 1712) was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician.

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James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll

James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll (20 April 1726 – 3 July 1778) styled Lord Boyd from 1728 to 1746, was a Scottish nobleman and the son of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock.

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James II of Scotland

James II (16 October 1430 – 3 August 1460) was King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Smith (architect)

John Smith (1781 – 22 July 1852) was a Scottish architect.

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Leith

Leith (Lìte) is a port area in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith.

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Lintel

A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces.

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Listed buildings in Scotland

This is a list of Category A listed buildings in Scotland, which are among the listed buildings of the United Kingdom.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Mary Hay, 14th Countess of Erroll

Mary Hay, 14th Countess of Erroll (died 19 August 1758) was a Scottish noblewoman and suo jure Countess of Erroll.

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Masonry

Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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Mortar (masonry)

Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or patterns to masonry walls.

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Nathaniel Hooke (Jacobite)

Nathaniel Hooke (1664–1738) was a Franco-Irish Jacobite soldier, diplomatic envoy for the King of France and a Baron in the Jacobite Peerage of Ireland (as Baron Hooke of Hooke Castle, cr. 1708).

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Old Slains Castle

Slains Castle (otherwise known as Old Slains Castle) is a ruined castle near Collieston in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. New Slains Castle and Old Slains Castle are Clan Hay and ruined castles in Aberdeenshire.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.

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Planned French invasion of Britain (1708)

The Planned French Invasion of Britain, took place in March 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement.

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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) was an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government that was "sponsored" through Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government.

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Scottish baronial architecture

Scottish baronial or Scots baronial is an architectural style of 19th-century Gothic Revival which revived the forms and ornaments of historical architecture of Scotland in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.

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Sir John Ellerman, 1st Baronet

Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 1st Baronet, CH (15 May 1862 – 16 July 1933) was an English shipowner and investor, believed to be the richest man in England.

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Slains Pursuivant

Slains Pursuivant of Arms is a private officer of arms appointed by the Chief of the Name and Arms of Hay – presently the Earl of Erroll, Lord High Constable of Scotland.

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Spanish blanks plot

The Spanish blanks plot was an alleged pro-Spanish Catholic conspiracy in Scotland, discovered in late 1592.

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STV Group

STV Group plc (formerly known as Scottish Television plc, Scottish Media Group plc and SMG plc) is a media company based in Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Jewel of Seven Stars

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903.

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The Mystery of the Sea

The Mystery of the Sea is a mystery novel by Bram Stoker, first published in 1902.

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The Watter's Mou'

The Watter's Mou (Scots: "the water's mouth") is a novel by Bram Stoker, first published in 1895.

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Thomas Hayton Mawson

Thomas Hayton Mawson (5 May 1861 – 14 November 1933), known as T. H. Mawson, was a British garden designer, landscape architect, and town planner.

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Tower Hill

Tower Hill is the area surrounding the Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Tower house

A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.

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Victor Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll

Victor Alexander Sereld Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll and 4th Baron Kilmarnock, KCMG (17 October 1876 – 20 February 1928), styled Lord Kilmarnock from 1891 to 1927, was a British diplomat, a writer and briefly a member of the House of Lords, who was "noted for his tact and charm.".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Slains_Castle

, The Watter's Mou', Thomas Hayton Mawson, Tower Hill, Tower house, Victor Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll, William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, William IV, Winston Churchill.

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See also

1590s establishments in Scotland

16th-century fortifications

Bram Stoker

Buildings and structures in Buchan

Clan Hay

Country houses in Aberdeenshire

Ruined castles in Aberdeenshire

References