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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 408 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCONE (pron. Skoon; Gaelic, See also:skene, "a cutting")  , a See also:parish of See also:Perthshire, See also:Scotland, containing Old See also:Scone, the site of an historic See also:abbey and See also:palace, and New Scone, a See also:modern See also:village (pop . 1585), 2 M . N. of See also:Perth, near the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Tay . Pop. of parish (1901) 2362 . It became the See also:capital of Pictavia, the See also:kingdom of See also:northern Picts, in See also:succession to See also:Forteviot . Parliaments occasionally assembled on the See also:Moot See also:Hill, where the first See also:national See also:council of which we possess records was held (906) . The Moot Hill was known also as the Hill of Belief from the fact that here the Pictish See also:king promulgated the See also:edict regulating the See also:Christian See also:church . The abbey was founded in 1115 by See also:Alexander I., but See also:long before this date Scone had been a centre of ecclesiastical activity and the seat of a monastery . See also:Kenneth is alleged to have brought the See also:Stone of Destiny, on which the See also:Celtic See also:kings were crowned, from See also:Dunstaffnage See also:Castle on See also:Loch Etive, and to have deposited it in Scone, whence it was conveyed to See also:Westminster Abbey (where it lies beneath the See also:Coronation See also:Chair) by See also:Edward I. in 1296 . Most of the Scottish kings were crowned at Scone, the last See also:function being held on the 1st of See also:January 1651, when See also:Charles II. received the See also:crown . Apparently there was never any royal See also:residence in the See also:town, owing to the proximity of Perth . Probably the See also:ancient See also:House of Scone, which stood near the abbey, provided the kings with temporary See also:accommodation .

Both the abbey and the house were burned down by the Reformers in 1559, and next See also:

year the estates were granted to the Ruthvens . On the See also:attainder of the See also:family after the See also:Gowrie See also:conspiracy in 1600, the See also:land passed to See also:Sir See also:David See also:Murray of the Tullibardine See also:line, who became 1st See also:viscount Stormont (1621) and was the ancestor of the See also:earl of See also:Mansfield, to whom the existing house belongs . Sir David completed in 16o6 the palace which the earl of Gowrie had begun . The 5th viscount—See also:father of the 1st earl of Mansfield, the See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice of See also:England (b. at Scone 1705)—entertained the Old Pretender for three See also:weeks in 1716, and his son received See also:Prince Charles Edward in 1746 . The See also:present palace, which See also:dates from 1803, stands in a beautiful See also:park . It contains several historic See also:relics, the most interesting being a See also:bed adorned with See also:embroidery worked by See also:Mary See also:Queen of Scots during her imprisonment in Lochleven Castle . The See also:gallery in which Charles II. was crowned, a See also:hall 16o ft. long, has been included in the palace . Two See also:hundred yards See also:east of the See also:mansion is an ancient gateway, supposed to have led to the old House of Scone, and 'near it stands the See also:cross of Scone, removed hither from its See also:original site in the town .

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