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ROBERT STEWART OF BALLECHIN

Stirnet: Rattray 01

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SIR JAMES STEWART OF ATTEMADIES

The History of Blairgowrie By John A. R. Macdonald 1899

p 216 - 217 RATTRAY OF RATTRAY AND CRAIGHALL.

The second son, Patrick, succeeded Sir John, and the only daughter, Grissel, became the Countess of John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Athole.
The following is an abstract from a copy MS. which refers to a disaster, which for a time marred the fortunes of the Rattray family of Craighall :-" Sir John Rattray quho was killed at Flodden (1513), with King James IV.; his eldest son called John had two daughters, bot he died before his father without heirs male. Always Sir John Rattray married for his second marriage Dam Elisabeth Kennadie, quho bar to him two sons, the one

called Patrick, the other called Sylvester. Sir John Rattray being killed at Flodden, the Earl of Athol thought himself entitled to an equal portion of the estates of Rattray in right of his Countess, and this claim being resisted by his brothers-in-law, the Earl resolved to attain his end by force.

"Arraying a body of his clansmen, he marched down upon the castle of Rattray with the intention of carrying it by assault; Patrick, finding his few retainers unable to defend the place, made a timely retreat.

"The Earl broke into the old fortalice, ransacked and seized all the family documents on which he could lay hands. Also he took the two daughters, and married upon his son the oldest called Dam Grissell, and the other upon Sir James Stewart of Attemadies, in the north, and so possessed himself of the estate of Rattray and sundrie other lands belonging to that family."