Cvaigmillar and its Environs. 



it still gives evidence of a desire on the part of its 

 owners for security, and their determination that 

 there should be no entrance to the garden, which is 

 on this side, except by the roundabout way through 

 the north curtain. The rooms in this wing are 

 large and handsome, entering through each other 

 in the style of the seventeenth century. This 

 was evidently the residential part, with its separate 

 entrance from the courtyard, kitchen, dining-room, 

 and private bedrooms. The dining-room had a 

 beautiful fireplace, lined with Dutch tiles, and a 

 window with a mullion and transom. Off a short 

 court at the south end, and also communicating with 

 the rooms, is a small retiring room with a garde-robe 

 projecting outside, and window with seats. It is pro- 

 bably owing to the quatrefoil light in this room, giving 

 it an ecclesiastical look, that it has been called the 

 "Confessional" in some local guide-books. Communi- 

 cation with other parts of the castle was by a stair 

 between the west wing and the keep, and through the 

 Great Hall on to the rooms beyond. The bowling-green 

 was on the west side, immediately outside of this range 



