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 CAKEMUIR CASTLE 57 FOURTH PERIOD a'stone seat, and a door opening outwards. The other recess adjoining the stair turret is not in such good preservation, having undergone alterations when the later wing shown in the sketch was added. The battlement walk is paved in the usual way with thick stone slabs, con- verging to the gargoyles, which throw off the water. One of these, in FIG. 523. Cakemuir Castle. View from the South-East. the east end over the window, already referred to, is bent to the side so as to throw the water clear of the window. Above this window is a panel with the Wauchope arms (see enlarged sketch), the family to whom the tower and adjoining lands belonged. Mackie, in his Palaces of Queen Mary, tells us that in former times Cakemuir was a place of refreshment and protection to pilgrims and travellers on their way between Edinburgh and Melrose, quoting the lines of an old ballad " See the way is long and drear : Empty flasks and sorry cheer, At Cakemuir there is bread and be'er. In the name of every saint, Let not weary pilgrim faint." In the History and Genealogy of the Family of Wauchope, by the late James Paterson, we are informed that Adam Wauchope, Advocate, fifth son of Gilbert Wauchope of Niddrie Marischall, acquired the property of