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Drest ( Scottish Gaelic: ''Drust''; Latin: ''Durst'') was king of the Picts from before 845 to 848, a rival of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín). According to the
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, he was the son of Uurad (also spelled Vurad, Ferant, Ferat). Drest was killed at Scone in the event known in history as MacAlpin's Treason. He was the last king of the Picts. With such scant information about Drest, this detail is enticing:
In the ancient graveyard of St Vigeans in
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, within which there exist many most interesting early
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monuments, there is to be found one old stone which is possessed of this singularity: that on it there is engraved the only inscription in the ordinary character of the
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manuscript which is to be found in Scotland outside the bounds of
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. That inscription has been thus read by the late Sir James Simpson: "The stone of Drost, son of Voret, of the race of Fergus". There is considerable probability that the Drost here commemorated is the Drost son of Ferat and king of the Picts referred to above .e., Drest son of Uurad


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