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88 L. Corbett 1891 From the Scottish Chiefs, by Jane Porteous pp362-3 “As the chief meant to assume a border minstrel’s garb, that he might travel the country unrecognised as its once adored Regent, he took his way towards a large hollow oak in Torwood, where he had deposited his means of disguise (a) – (a) The remains of a venerable oak, bearing Wallace’s name, has long been revered in this wood. Indeed, there are several oaks consecrated to his memory in various parts of Scotland: some as his shelter at one place, some at another; for he who often has to watch for his country, without ‘bield or board’, must have been glad of a tree canopy or a cave for his lodging. More than one of these fine old oaks (of perhaps a 1000 years ‘age’) (4), has been lopped in our own times to afford relics of the hero; in the shape of caskets, crosses, and even rings set in gold. Of all these forms, the writer of The Scottish Chiefs has had presents from their brave and noble descendents; namely – the late Earl of Buchan; Lady Macdonald Lockhart; the Lady Charlotte Gordon; the Duchess of Richmond; etc etc ” (Jane Porteous 1891) See note (4) for a notable example from the Elderslie Wallace Oak. (King) 1903 Torwood … from F. H. Croome’s Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland volume 1, 1903 – “Torwood a village in Dunipace parish … to the S. are the ruins of Torwood Castle, mid 16th C … surrounded by the Tor Wood, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian Forest and the hiding place of Sir William Wallace. The true ‘Wallace Oak’ here is gone forever though a shoot of it was thriving as late as 1835 … an old thorn tree near it was very possibly the identical tree beneath which Donald Cargill excommunicated Charles 11, Sept 1680 (Transactions of the Highland Agricultural Society 1881, p204)” (LC) 1908 Quotes from Gibson’s Lands and Lairds of Larbert and Dunipace in footnotes to the chapter on Woodside estate, being information communicated to Gibson by Mrs Houston of Johnston Castle, who was a grand-daughter of Mrs Sylvester Douglas Stirling of Glenbervie, and states that this is partly based on information given by her grandmother whose knowledge of the places dated from 1832. “Cargill’s Thorn at one time marked the spot where the Covenanter Donald Cargill excomunicated Charles II, but is no longer in existence having been blown down 10 to 15 years ago. It stood on the east side of the Falkirk/Stirling road on Woodside estate which originally formed part of the ancient Low Torwood.” “Wallace’s Oak which stood on another part of Woodside (Low Torwood) has also vanished. There is an account of it in the second edition of Nimmo’s History of Stirlingshire, in which the editor calls it “an august vegetable”. Mention is made
Wallace Oak: Supplement 89 of a ‘druidical causeway’ leading up to the tree and circling round it. By means of tradition and an old map we succeeded in identifying the spot a few years ago, and even found traces of the rough causeway mentioned by Nimmo.” see also above at 1817 (pers. comm. Howie to Forrester 17/4/85) 1982 The Glenbervie Golf Club’s Jubilee Booklet has various notes relevant to the Wallace Oak, the Cargill Tree, the history of the Torwood area, previous owners etc – as mentioned in the Forrester paper and as its reference 16. (Howie) 1986 Glenbervie Golf Club contracts the Scottish Wildlife Trust to manage the Wallacebank Wood, which is within the golf course grounds, as a listed Wildlife Nature Reserve. This was negotiated by Forbes Howie. Subsequently, in the course of arduous rhododendron clearance, SWT people, Smith (6), found evidence for the Wallace Oak being in the wood, as posed by Forrester, in that many of the oaks in the the northern section had been coppiced – including one of 21 feet in girth at the stool. This would indicate an age of some 500 to 800 years – adding to the probability that a “a hollow tree of gigantic proportions” did exist in the time of Wallace. (Angus Smith)
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