. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. : I have her promise only to trust to ; but I have putmyself in her hands, and I will go with her though she should murder me. f At some period of the seventeenth century Craigmillar passed into thepossession of the family of Gilmour, in which it still remains. The most * Keiths Hist. xcvi. Spottiswoode Edition. tTytlers History, vii. 78-g. 14 THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL remarkable member of this family was Sir John Gilmour, Lord President of theCourt of Session, the son of a writer to the signet. He was an advocate duringthe perio
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. : I have her promise only to trust to ; but I have putmyself in her hands, and I will go with her though she should murder me. f At some period of the seventeenth century Craigmillar passed into thepossession of the family of Gilmour, in which it still remains. The most * Keiths Hist. xcvi. Spottiswoode Edition. tTytlers History, vii. 78-g. 14 THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL remarkable member of this family was Sir John Gilmour, Lord President of theCourt of Session, the son of a writer to the signet. He was an advocate duringthe period of the Protectorate, and owing his fortunes apparently more to abilitythan professional or historical learning, he elicited from his fellow-lawyer, SirGeorge Mackenzie, an antithetical compliment of being sine rhetoricaeloquens—sine literis doctus. At the Restoration he was appointed President ofthe Court of Session, and he died in 1671, leaving behind him a collection ofReports still well known in connection with his name. ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 99. Craigston Castle IHIS broad square mass of building has some features in commonwith Fyvie, from which it is but a few miles distant. Thehigh deep arch joining the two towers, or wings, is one ofthese points of resemblance ; but, in the general outline,Craigston wants the multitudinously spiral summit which givesso light and rich a character to its neighbour, and is conspicuousfor a massive plainness of outline, which appears to have been a pre-vailing aim with the architect, as he had laid in the corbels of squareturrets at the corners, but appears to have changed his mind, abstainingfrom conferring on the building the light aerial effect of these thus severe in its outline, however, the edifice is not unadorned. Overthe top of the arch, and from the one tower to the other, stretches a border ofgrotesque statuary. The inside of the castle is remarkable for a spacious hall,now converted into a handsome drawi
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