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DUKE OF 5UCCLEUCH. 



DRUMLANRIG 

 CASTLE, 



DUMFRIESSHIRE. 



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ANY are the honours and high the titles that 

 belong to the DuUeof BuccleiKh and (Jiu-i-nsberry. 

 Us. too. his Grace has many. t<> wit: the 

 famous house of I alktith. near lidmburgh; Drum- 

 lanrig Castle and Langholm Ltxl-e. Dumfriesshire ; 

 Hall, near St. Bos well's; and Bowhill, near Selkirk; 

 Norihampton>hire house as wi-ll. Truly, a goodly 

 heritage and a rich, well worthy of a great peer of the realm. 

 It is with the beautiful Dumfriesshire domain of Drumlann,! 

 that we are concerned here well named from the " drum," or 

 " rig," or ridge, at the end of which it stands, looking 

 down upon the Marr Burn, and commanding a noble prospect 

 e valley of the Nith, with nrghty Criffel, near the 

 borderland, to close the distant view. The branch of the yreat 

 house of Douglas from which the Duke is descended flourished 

 here more than five hundred years ago, when David II. in 

 IJ56 confirmed the barony to William Lord Dou-las a wide 

 territory stretching trom the Marr Burn, along the western side 

 of the Nith, into Sanquhar Parish, and including >ome lands on 



tin- other M.le <M the river. The luM l< "I Dtunil.inn, 

 Sir William Dou-l.is. livinj at the cl<i-e n\ the vum Century, 

 from whom was J,-M.-ndeJ William, lirst Viscount Dtuml.i 

 and altenvarJs l;.irl of nueensherry. 



Some remains ..| ilu- i-ld castle are eml>...lie,l in the 

 present sf.i.ture. \\huli itsell d.it.-s frnin i(>;<>-&>. an.l was 

 built by William, firM Duke ot (,)ueenstviry. DnuHl.ss it 

 uas a ^..,,1 i.istellated mansion that had stood tlu-re he : 

 \ .;:.!. imposing structure is Duimlaiu.u Castle. f..ut square 

 to the winds of heaven, with a nullity turret, lour-pinn.ul -il. 

 at every an-le, and Ivtween the turrets curtain \\alN, as in 

 s,.me feudal stron-liol.l. the sj..ut walls lull of windows and 

 crested by an attractive balustrade. The details are 



:. and a rvautit'ul segmeiital double stairway on the m.rh 

 front is particularly line. Below are the ten aces and garden-, 

 and a long flight of broad steps, lorming the ^reat as.ent. is 

 the approach n one side. A vast work w.u d"iu- l>v Duke 

 William in raising the ponderous pile, laying out the -ardens, 

 and thickening the woods by new plantations. He seems to 



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