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divides; one branch zigzags along the coast towards 

 Fitful Head, the other strikes across the island to 

 Scalloway. On our return from Sumburgh we left 

 the carriage at the parting of the ways, and sending 

 it on to Lerwick with our baggage, walked across to 

 Scalloway. The road undulates between hills covered 

 with peat. Though it is in a way picturesque, there is 

 nothing very striking to be seen, until, on the top of 

 the last rise, the little port, with its beautiful land- 

 locked harbour, lakes, and ruin, with the grand outlines 

 of the hills of Foula in the distance, comes suddenly 

 into view. The castle, which is unroofed, is of the 

 common Highland sixteenth-century type a tall, 

 square building, with high-pitched gables, oriel windows, 

 and round corner turrets. There is a coat-of-arms over 

 the doorway, and conspicuous on the highest point 

 of the western gable the iron ring from which tradi- 

 tion says that the founder, Patrick Stuart, of infamous 

 memory, was in the habit of hanging neighbours who 

 disagreed with him as to the fair price for their estates. 



It is not difficult, without any greater mental effort 

 than is involved in looking up the index references 

 in the published Kegisters of the Privy Council of 

 Scotland, to draw for oneself a fairly distinct picture 

 of the man and his times. 



Patrick was a grandson of James v. Robert Stuart, 

 his father, had been Prior of Holyrood, but exchanged 

 his priory with Adam Bothwell, the first Protestant 

 Bishop of the See, for the bishopric or temporalities 

 of Orkney. 



