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style. The structure is presumably the church that Harvey de Keith raised by decree of King David. There is a 19th-century plaque commemorating this on the chancel gable. Although unsympathetically restored and stabilised in that period as a folly, there is still a wealth of detail that points to its
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Jacobites. The Earl Marischal was coerced into the redistribution of his properties, Keith Marischal included. The Hope family were engaged in wholesale acquisition of the property of Jacobite sympathisers and eventually managed to amass massive estates in the
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and lived at Nether Keith, some quarter of a mile from the house. Indeed, one of the latest witch trials in
Scotland took place at Humbie in 1678. The accused were held within the Chapel at Keith Marischal for the evening prior to their execution, which took place at
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over the course of the 18th century. It is they who carried out the quasi-symmetrical extension to the west of the house to construct a new wing, forming a courtyard house. The east wing is the original tower. The walled garden was added in 1807.
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to construct an extension that would fill in the courtyard and provide corridors in the building rather than the more archaic passage from room to room. It is at this time that the exterior was baronialised with
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on the remainder of a previous construction which is heavily obscured, only just discernible in the massive thickness of the southern ground floor internally. Within the grounds there is evidence of a
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by Simon Fraser of Keith, the first of that surname to appear on record in
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William Hog of Vigorshauch in 1489. Hog was said to have prevented the Earl entering the house and fortalice at Nether Keith, while the Earl had taken Hog's sheep. The war known as the
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came to "Nether Keith" on 31 January 1550. Two barn yards at the Place of Nether Keith were burnt as well as houses in the village. The
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in August 1589. The roof trusses of the tower are reputed to have been made from timber gifted to him by the Danish King
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