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 HODDAM CASTLE 13? FOURTH PERIOD robe (see Fig. 591). The ground and first floors are otherwise sufficiently explained by the plans. The two upper floors, which are reached by a wheel stair, are open from end to end, and are uninhabited. A range of one-story offices extends to the west. The south wall of these seems to be old, and probably enclosed the courtyard. CASTL LINUTHGOWSHIRE FIG. 594. OcMltree Castle. Dormers. In the gablets of the remarkable doorway or porch at the west end there are the initials and arms of Sir Archibald Stirling of Keir (three buckles on a bend), and his second wife, Dame Grizell, second daughter of James, Lord Ross (cheveron cheque, with three water-budgets). Her arms occur again on one of the dormers (Fig. 594), while on another dormer is the date 1610. The dormers and the doorway just described are part of the additions above mentioned, and serve to fix their date. The original part of the house may probably be about half a century older. HODDAM CASTLE, DUMFRIESSHIRE. The name of Hoddam is of ancient date in Scotch history. In 573, St. Kentigern, returning from Wales, was met by the King and his people at Hoddam, and there for a time fixed his See, which was after- wards transferred to Glasgow. The names of Bruce and Herries are associated with the Hoddam estate during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In 1627 it was acquired by Sir Richard Murray from the sixth Lord Herries. It passed in 1653 to the Earl of Southesk, and in 1690 to the well-known family of Sharpe. It now belongs to Edward Brook, Esq.