Identifier: castlespalacespr00mack (find matches)
Title: The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Mackie, Charles, d. 1864
Subjects: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 Castles Palaces
Publisher: London : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Hermitage, bearing around the heart the well-known badge of theDouglases interchangeably with quatrefoils; this relic was in thepossession of Sir AValter Scott. An iron ladle was also dug up in theruins, and a bugle horn was found in the marsh. The ladle, and theiron key before alluded to, are in the possession of the Duke ofBuccleugh ; the honi was in that of Sir Walter Scott. The appearance of the castle of the Hermitage—so extensive a ruin,situated in so desolate a spot, on the brink of a furious torrent, andsmrounded by a morass and lofty hills—its walls grey with age, andstained with all the varieties of colours with which so many rollingcenturies have chequered them—is rather solemn and grand than pic-turesque or romantic. The traveller who first sees the ruin fi-om theNine-stane Rig, with the low and narrow vale of Hermitage inperspective, and the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland inthe back-ground, is struck with the sublimity of the scene. Ciiotlr of Snrtljuiirk.
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^:iMI WHY SITIST THOD KT THAT RDIND BAT.T . THpO AGED CARLE, SO STERN AND QRET rDOST THOD ITS FORilER PRIDE RECALL,OR PONDER WHY IT PASSD AWAY f ANTIQUARY. ^. Ci)t Caistk nf ^Bnrtljuiick. Etvmox derived from the proprietor—Foundation by Sir W. de Borthwick, on tlie Moat of Lochwart—Character and Design of the Structure—rrospect from the Battlements The Abbot of Unreason, a tale of Sir Waiter Scott—Queen Marj visits tlie Castle—Insurrectionof the Nobles—The Queen escapes in disj^uise, and arrives at Black Ciistle, where she is Joinedby Bothvvell and his party—Borthwick besieged by Oliver Cromwell—Curious letter fromthe Protector requiring the Governor to surrender—The Lord Borthwick capitulates onhonourable terms, and leaves the Castle with his property—Eftects of Cromwells battery stillto be seen—Description of the liitins—The Great Hall, &c., &c.

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