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and then proceed to Blythe and the Harefaulds, to whfch 

 attention had also been called by Mr. Milne Home. A 

 short walk accordingly brought us to the castle, which 

 stands in the precincts of the town, and offers a fine 

 example of old national architecture, evidently built at various 

 epochs. The family being absent, we walked through the 

 various rooms, the ceilings of which are richly ornamented, and 

 the walls covered with family portraits. Among the pictures 

 is a good collection of Cannaletti's paintings. The front, 

 which is symmetrical, consists of a central square tower with 

 projecting angles, five — and the middle portion six stories 

 high, flanked by the circular turrets characteristic of Scottish 

 architecture. A flight of steps leads up to the entrance door, 

 and on either side are wings somewhat in advance of the 

 centre, which are three stories high, with quadrangular 

 pavilion-roofed towers at the angles. This appears to be the 

 most recent part of the buildiug. The oldest portions are 

 seen at the back, particularly of the right wing, where the 

 end gable probably formed part of the original structure. 

 The building is not of high antiquity ; the post appears to 

 have been fortified about 1548 by order of Somerset the Pro- 

 tector, in the reign of Edward VI., when following up the 

 hostile policy of Henry VIII. against Scotland, and the com- 

 mand of the garrison entrusted to Sir Hugh Willoughby, 

 but from its vicinity to the more important fortresses of 

 Dunbar and Haddington, Sir Hugh seems to have been little 

 disturbed, until the Scots, with the assistance of their French 

 auxiliaries, recovered their lost ground and besieged Lauder 

 Fort in 1559. Ere many days elapsed, however, the prelim- 

 inaries of a peace having been arranged at Boulogne, it was 

 delivered up to the Scots. No further mention of the fort 

 occurs in history. 



In Font's map of Lauderdale, 1662, it is noted as Lauder 

 Fort. An elevation of the house as it then stood, but still 

 without any change of name, is given in Slazer's Theatruuu 

 Scotia?, 1673, (2nd ed., 1718), and represents it as restored 

 by Chancellor Maitland, the first peer, and still farther 



