The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . .^4 \ I \^^ ^mM * IM-mM , -ij i.:,: Jl.! n ^^14^ ^,^5,^^li«M^^^ ^. FOURTH PKRIOP 20 THE MANSE tack of the Earl of Mars great lodging, high and laigh, with the close andwell, for payment of a blench duty yearly, and also of the yards belongingthereto, att the rent of £30 Scots yeaily, with the gardeners house goingalongst with it, providing the councill be only obliged to uphold and main-tain the rooff of the lodging, but not the walls. This lease was enteredinto and endured till 1790, so that ap
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . .^4 \ I \^^ ^mM * IM-mM , -ij i.:,: Jl.! n ^^14^ ^,^5,^^li«M^^^ ^. FOURTH PKRIOP 20 THE MANSE tack of the Earl of Mars great lodging, high and laigh, with the close andwell, for payment of a blench duty yearly, and also of the yards belongingthereto, att the rent of £30 Scots yeaily, with the gardeners house goingalongst with it, providing the councill be only obliged to uphold and main-tain the rooff of the lodging, but not the walls. This lease was enteredinto and endured till 1790, so that appai^ently the buildings remainedintact till recent times. Another tradition is that Mars Wark was erected from the ruinsof Cambuskenneth Abbey. There may be stones from the abbey inits walls, but certainly its ornamental and architectural features cannothave been taken from any structure erected during the Gothic Wark is decidedly a building exhibiting the characteristic featureswhich prevailed in Scotland during the sixteenth century, and it isperhaps the most elaborate specimen of the masonry of that period nowremaining. Its two octagonal drum t
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