MONTROSE, a parish and sea-port and burgh (royal), in the county of Forfar; containing 15,096 inhabitants, of whom 13,402 are in the burgh, 20 miles (K. N. E.) from Forfar, and 72 (N. E. by N.) from Edinburgh. This place, anciently called Celurca, is supposed to have derived its present name from the Gaelic Main Ross, signifying " a promontory in the fens"; though the device of the town-seal apparently favours the fanciful derivation from the Latin Mons RosciTum, or "the Mount of Roses". The town is of considerable antiquity: it seems to have received a charter from David L, conferring upon it all the privileges of a royal burgh; and though there is no authentic record of its early history, it appears to have been identified with many incidents of importance. In 1330, Sir James Douglas, attended by a numerous and splendid retinue, embarked at this port, bearing with him the heart of Robert the Bruce, to be deposited in the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. In 1493, the inhabitants of Montrose suffered so much oppression from John Erskine, lord of Dun, that the magistrates of the burgh, on petition to James IV., obtained a summons from the king, commanding his appearance before the council at Edinburgh. In 1534, the study of Greek was introduced here by John Erskine, grandson of the former, and associate of John Knox in promoting the Reformation; who CHtabnshc