Tain is an imperial burgh and parish in the Area of Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland. The name derives from the neighboring River Tain, the name of which originates from an Indo-European root meaning 'flow'. The Gaelic name, Baile Dubhthaich, indicates 'Duthac's community', after a neighborhood saint additionally known as Duthus. Tain was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making it Scotland's earliest royal burgh, honored in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The 1066 charter, given by King Malcolm III, confirmed Tain as a shelter, where people can claim the protection of the church, and also an immunity, in which citizen merchants as well as investors were exempt from particular taxes. These resulted in the advancement of the community. Little is understood of earlier background although the community owed much of its importance to Duthac. He was a very early Christian figure, maybe 8th or 9th century, whose temple had actually come to be so vital by 1066 that it caused the royal charter. The destroyed chapel near the mouth of the river was stated to have actually been improved the site of his birth. Duthac became an official saint in 1419 as well as by the late Middle Ages his shrine was an important places of trip in Scotland. King James IV came with the very least once a year throughout his reign to accomplish both spiritual and also political aims. A leading landowning family of the area, the Clan Munro, provided political as well as spiritual figures to the town, including the dissenter Rev John Munro of Tain (died ca. 1630). The very early Duthac Church was the centre of a refuge. Fugitives were by tradition given sanctuary in numerous square miles marked by boundary stones. During the First War of Scottish Independence, Robert the Bruce sent his partner as well as little girl to the haven for safety and security. The refuge was gone against and they were caught forcibly loyal to William II, Earl of Ross who handed them over to Edward I of England The women were required to England and maintained prisoner for a number of years.