GLAMIS  , a

village and parish of Forfarshire, Scotland, 54 M . W. by S. of Forfar by the Caledonian railway . Pop. of parish (1901) 1351 . The name is sometimes spelled Glammis and the i is mute: it is derived from the Gaelic, glamhus, " a wide gap," " a vale." The chief object in the village is the sculptured stone, traditionally supposed to be a memorial of Malcolm II., although Fordun's statement that the king was slain in the castle is now rejected . About a mile from the station stands Glamis Castle, the seat of the earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, a fine example of the Scottish Baronial style, enriched with certain features of the French chateau . In its present form it dates mostly from the 17th century, but the original structure was as old as the 11th century, for Macbeth was Thane of Glamis . Several of the early Scots kings, especially Alexander III., used it occasionally as a residence . Robert II. bestowed the thanedom on John Lyon, who had married the king's second daughter by Elizabeth Mure and was thus the founder of the existing family . Patrick Lyon became hostage to England for James I. in 1424 . When, in 1537, Janet Douglas, widow of the 6th Lord Glamis, was burned. at Edinburgh as a witch, for conspiring to procure James V.'s death, Glamis was forfeited to the crown, but it was restored to her son six years later when her innocence had been established . The 3rd earl of Strathmore entertained the Old Chevalier and eighty of his immediate followers in 1715 . After discharging the duties of hospitality the earl joined tIle Jacobites at Sheriffmuir and fell on the battlefield .

Sir Walter Scott spent a night in the " hoary old pile " when he was about twenty years old, and gives a striking relation of his experiences in his Demonology and Witchcraft . The hall has an arched ceiling and several historical portraits, including those of Claverhouse, Charles II. and James II. of England . At Cossans, in the parish of Glamis, there is a remarkable sculptured monolith,and other examples occur at the Hunters' Hill and in the old kirkyard of Eassie .