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 FOURTH PERIOD 406 COREHOUSE CASTLE Corehouse, or, as it was originally called, " Corrocks," was for long the house and estate of the family of Bamiatyiie. It belonged in the twelfth century to the Abbey of Kelso, and in 1400 the Abbot appointed an inquiry as to the succession of William Bannatyne to the estate. In 1695 Sir J. Bannatyne sold the estate to William Somerville of Cambus- nethan. Under the castle there was a corn-mill driven by the water at the top of the fall, which is 84 feet in height. (See History of Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, by G. V. Irving and Alexander Murray.) ETHIE CASTLE, FORFARSHIRE,! The seat of the Earl of Northesk, about five miles northward from Arbroath. This castle or mansion was inhabited by Cardinal Beaton when Abbot of Arbroath about 1530, and also after being created a Cardinal be- tween 1538 and 1546. His rooms are known ; and, with the exception of some minor modern alterations, the place w r as in his day much the same as at present, though probably extending farther to the north and east. FIG. 848. Ethie Castle. View from the South-West. Ethie passed in 1549 from the Abbot of Arbroath to Sir Robert Carnegie, grandfather of the "Sir John Carnegie of Ethie," who was created Lord Lour in 1639, and Earl of Ethie, with other titles, in 1647. These two titles afterwards became Lord Rosehill and Earl of Northesk. The castle has remained in the family ever since. The building has been so much and so often altered that it is difficult 1 We have to acknowledge the kindness of Lord Northesk, the proprietor, in furnishing us with nearly all the data for the description of Ethie.