1886-87.] Fawsidc or Falside Castle. Jj 



fire — the brave old lady preferring to die among the ruins of her 

 ancestral home rather than flee, only to be captured and killed 

 by her enemies. I need not enter further into the details of the 

 struggle — it is well known to all ; suffice it to say that, though 

 victorious, the English gained nothing, for Mary was secretly 

 sent across to France, there to be married to the Dauphin. 



After this, Fawside was rendered for a time at least useless 

 as a dwelling. By -and -by, however, it recruited itself, its 

 massive walls and arched roof saving it from utter destruction. 

 Of its after-history we know little or nothing. Twenty years 

 elapse, and we find in Pitcairn that a Thomas Fawside signed 

 a bond of association for defending the coronation and govern- 

 ment of the young King James VI. against his mother, and in 

 1570 he formed one of the assize for the trial of Carkittle of 

 Moreless for treason. In 1616 the servant of James Fawside 

 was "delated for the crewl murder (slaughter) of umquhile 

 John Fawside, in the house of Fawside, with a knife or dagger, 

 on the 10th of November." For this offence he suffered the ex- 

 treme penalty at Edinburgh Castle. In 1631 Eobert of Faw- 

 side is found to be on the commission for augmenting the 

 stipend of the minister of Inveresk. Some years thereafter the 

 estate was sold to one of the name of Hamilton in Edinburgh. 



In 1666 James, eldest son of the deceased Fawside, witnesses 

 a charter of George Earl of Haddington. He seems to be the 

 last of the race of Fawside of Fauside. 



I now come to the second part of my paper, and it will be 

 brief — viz., the description of the building itself and its archi- 

 tecture. M'Gibbon and Eoss, in their interesting work already 

 mentioned, rank Falside as a keep extended into a mansion, and 

 put it down to the Third period, which period, they say, " began 

 with the fifteenth century." Our authors continue: "About 

 that time a few castles began to be erected on a different model 

 from that of the keep tower. These consisted of buildings 

 surrounded by a courtyard or quadrangle. The great castle of 

 Doune, built by the Eegent Murdoch, Duke of Albany, is of this 

 description. The powerful castle of Tantallon, which also 

 belonged to the Duke of Albany, and the rebuilding of Dirleton 

 and Caerlaverock (both destroyed by Edward I.), were likewise 

 carried out on this plan." 



The original building, then, or that which existed before or at 



