96 THE CASTELLATED REMAINS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
Two angle turrets and no battlements, date 1590. Isle Tower— 
A simple keep, with two angle turrets and no battlements; in 
perfect preservation, with iron yett and wooden door. The pro- 
perty of the Fergusons, it was built in 1587. Dalswinton (site 
only). Cowhill Tower—Fragments only; on a hill in front of 
modern house. It was built by a Maxwell in 1579, and mostly 
taken down in 1789. It consisted of a stair turret, and to the 
one side a fortified house, and is described by Grose. Amisfield 
Tower—A typical peel of large size; in good preservation ; with 
three circular turrets at angles, and a signal turret at the front 
corner. ‘These turrets at angles are all corbelled out from walls. 
The windows are all decorated with dog-toothing. Above all is 
a square cape house. A dormer window directly over door has 
beautiful decorations. | Above the doorway are two marriage 
stones. Torthorwald Castle—Is of unusual construction, and 
has been constructed to prevent being destroyed by fire; both 
the storeys were arched. It has been added to, as is seen by 
distinct join on the building. It belonged to the Carlyles. 
Dumfries Castle and the Maxwell Tower in Dumfries have both 
disappeared. Caerlaverock Castle—The finest in the county, 
and would require a paper devoted to itself; originally a first 
period castle of curtain walls; it has been adapted in different 
ages to the ideas of the periods. The north walls show two 
dates, as the top part is newer than its base. The internal 
structure has different dates in its construction. On the right 
of the gateway the buildings are older than they are on the left. 
Those on the left belong to the decorative period in castellated 
architecture. Bankend or Isle Tower—A keep on the L plan, 
in very ruinous state, which should be at once photographed, as 
the walls are so rent that the whole structure may fall any day if 
something is not done to preserve it. 
Epwarp I. aT SWEETHEART ABBEY. By E. J. CHINNOCK, 
LEAD: 
Some time ago I sent the Society an excerpt from the letter 
sent from Otford by Robert of Winchelsea, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, to Pope Boniface VIII., describing how he and 
Lombardi, the other Papal Legate, had met King Edward I. at 
Sweetheart Abbey, on the 27th of August, 1300, and delivered 
