- Aft 1446
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| Name |
Hugh (9th of that Ilk) Arbuthnott |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Aft 13 Mar 1446 |
| Person ID |
I144974 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
26 Aug 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Or Hugo
On the whole the family history is free from those blood drenched and melodramatic horrors usually only to be found in the pages of Scotch family histories and Gothick novels, and it was possibly the fact that his mother was a Douglas which accounts for the gruesome lapse on the part of Hugh Arbuthnott, the 9th Laird. In 1420 John Melville of Glenbervie was Sheriff of the Mearns, and according to tradition had incensed his neighbours by his tyranny.
Probably his fault was that he had interfered too much in the exercise of their own particular tyrannies. On representations being made to the Regent, Murdoch Duke of Albany, that worthy commented 'Sorrow gin that that Sheriff were sodden and upped in broo\\ With this somewhat dubious authority five lairds, Arbuthnott amongst them, invited the Sheriff to a hunting party in the Forest of Garvock. Once there he was knocked on the head, and his body thrown into aconvenient cauldron. Having simmered this grisly mess for a while each of the friends downed a spoonful of the resulting soup.
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