The Elphinstone family book of the lords Elphinstone, Balmerino and Coupar . iquities of Scotland, by Robert William Billings,architect, vol. iii., there are two drawings of portions of Kildrummy Castle,with four pages of descriptive letterpress of the history of the castle, archi-tectural and historical. The writer, who is reputed to have been Mr. JohnHill Burton, explains that the original castle was an appanage of David,Earl of Huntingdon, Lord of the Garioch, and a younger brother of KingMalcolm the Maiden and King William the Lion. The lordship of Garioch,with the castle of Kildrummy, des
The Elphinstone family book of the lords Elphinstone, Balmerino and Coupar . iquities of Scotland, by Robert William Billings,architect, vol. iii., there are two drawings of portions of Kildrummy Castle,with four pages of descriptive letterpress of the history of the castle, archi-tectural and historical. The writer, who is reputed to have been Mr. JohnHill Burton, explains that the original castle was an appanage of David,Earl of Huntingdon, Lord of the Garioch, and a younger brother of KingMalcolm the Maiden and King William the Lion. The lordship of Garioch,with the castle of Kildrummy, descended from Prince David to KingRobert the Bruce, and the history of the castle is associated with thefamilies of Bruce, Mar, Earl of Mar, Stuart, Earl of Mar, the Erskines,Earls of Mar, and the Lords Elphinstone, one of whom long held thejudicial title of Lord Kildrummy. The writer of the history of thecastle, although graphic in his descriptions, is not entirely accurate inhis statements. He says:— The stones are all hewn without and1 Charter dated lOth December CARBERRY TOWER, OLD LORDSHIP, AND CARBERRY HILL. XXX\ within, and must have been brought from a great distance, as thereis not any of the kind of stone in the neighbourhood. Mr. Christie, thelate minister of the parish of Kildrummy, pointed out that there is aquarry of freestone quite close to the castle, exactly the same as that whichmust have furnished the stone of which the castle is built. KildrummyCastle also forms the subject of several drawings and descriptions in theArchitecture of Scotland, by David Macgibbon and Thomas Eoss.^ Theseare interesting architecturally, but the history which they furnish of thecastle is not so thorousfh as that given in Mr. Billings book. VIII. CARBERRY ToWER—THE RESIDENCE OF THE LORDS ElPHINSTONE. Carberry, including the lands, tower and hill of that name, is situatedsouth-east of Musselburgh, in the parish of Inveresk and shire of Midlothian,about seven miles distant f
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