On this day in 1652 the last Royalist stronghold anywhere on the eastern side of Scotland, Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven, surrenders after an eight month siege, though not before the Scottish crown jewels also called the honours of Scotland, had been smuggled out to safety in Kinneff Old Church.
Sir George Ogilvie (or Ogilvy) of Barras was lieutenant-governor of the castle . Ogilvie surrendered on 24 May, on condition that the garrison could go free. Finding the honours gone, the Cromwellians imprisoned Ogilvie and his wife in the castle until the following year, when a false story was put about suggesting that the honours had been taken overseas.[
