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 FOURTH PERIOD 62 NIDDRIE MARISCHALL HOUSE NIDDRIE MARISCHALL HOUSE, MIDLOTHIAN. This mansion is situated about a mile eastwards from Craigmillar Castle. Unlike the latter,, crowning its rocky craig, Niddrie occupies a low-lying situation in a secluded valley, watered by the Burdiehouse Burn. The estate has been in the possession of the Wauchope family for about five hundred years. Although the oldest part of the present house only dates from about the beginning of the seventeenth century, we learn from ajtts. note-book in the charter-chest at Niddrie that there once was a castle, a little to the east of the present house, of unknown date and FIG. 529. Niddrie Marischall House. Plan and Section. large size, described as capable of "accommodating 100 strangers," which was destroyed by a mob from Edinburgh at the end of the six- teenth century, out of revenge for the many cruelties and wrongs done by Archibald Wauchope, younger. At the same time the estates were forfeited, and passed into the possession of Sir James Sandilands of Slamannan, who remained in possession of the place for about ten years, or till 1608 ; and in all probability it was he who built the keep which