The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . FOURTH PERIOD 268 EDMONSTON CASTLE August 1684 we find the following:—Andreas Aitkene mercator deEdinburgh, hseres Thomse Aitkene in Mitchellhill, patris, in annuo xedditu. Pig. 1378.—East Cairus Gristle. View from North-East. £40, coi-respondente 1000 m. de lie roume et terris de Wester Cairns, infraparochiam de Midcalder et baroniam de Calder. The castle is situated on the slope between the hills of Easter andWester Cairns. EDMONSTON CASTLE,* near Biggar, Lanarkshire. This old tower stands on
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . FOURTH PERIOD 268 EDMONSTON CASTLE August 1684 we find the following:—Andreas Aitkene mercator deEdinburgh, hseres Thomse Aitkene in Mitchellhill, patris, in annuo xedditu. Pig. 1378.—East Cairus Gristle. View from North-East. £40, coi-respondente 1000 m. de lie roume et terris de Wester Cairns, infraparochiam de Midcalder et baroniam de Calder. The castle is situated on the slope between the hills of Easter andWester Cairns. EDMONSTON CASTLE,* near Biggar, Lanarkshire. This old tower stands on the right bank of a small stream among thehills between Biggar and Dolphinton, and close to the border of Peebles-shire. The lands of Edmonston and Candy were resigned in 1322 by Williamof Edmonston to Sir James Douglas, the ancestor of the Morton andDalkeith families, with consent of Gilbert Fleming of Biggar, the Douglases held them, with the fortalice, mill, &c., for over threehundred years, till the middle of the seventeenth century, when they We have to thank Mr. J. D. Robertou for the drawings and description of thisedifice. EDMONSTON CASTLE — 269 — FOURTH PERIOD were sold by the then earl to Baillie of Walston. At the beginning of th
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