. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. me mansion it must have beensurrounded by its large gardens. The ground on which it stood con-sisted of seven roods of burgh land and extended in breadth fromHigh Street to South Street. This mansion was the Royal residence afterthe Castle on Lady Hill began to get ruinous, and in its titles is knownby the names of the Great Lodging and the Kings House. Itis supposed to have been the manor referred to in the charter granted 188 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT by King Robert Bruce to his nephew, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, int
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. me mansion it must have beensurrounded by its large gardens. The ground on which it stood con-sisted of seven roods of burgh land and extended in breadth fromHigh Street to South Street. This mansion was the Royal residence afterthe Castle on Lady Hill began to get ruinous, and in its titles is knownby the names of the Great Lodging and the Kings House. Itis supposed to have been the manor referred to in the charter granted 188 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT by King Robert Bruce to his nephew, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, inthe first years of the fourteenth century, and it was the residence ofthe Earls of Moray when they came to administer justice in the town,up to the year 1455, when by forfeiture the property passed to theDunbars of Westfield. When Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, or hisson Sir James was created Hereditary Sheriff this was their townresidence and continued in the family until 1603. Shortly after thisdate we find the house again in the possession of the Stewart Earls of. Thunderton House. Moray, and in 1650 in the possession of the Sutherlands of Duff us. LordDuffus added largely to the western part and built the tower, whichwas surmounted by a bartizan having a curiously-carved balustraderepresenting the letters of the name Sutherland, and various astro-nomical figures. A few of these stones are still in the front either side of the entrance door stood a stone statue of a savage,the supporters of the Duffus arms. These figures lay at the Prioryof Pluscarden all last century, but now, thanks to Lord Colum CrichtonStuart, they adorn our Museum. They are most quaint, the sculp-tors idea of a savage being an Englishman of the Charles period withflowing mustachios and pointed beard ! The site of its old well is ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 189 just a little to the south of the office door on the west side of thestreet. James, second Lord Duffus, who lived here in great style,
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