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bored through by the billows, and a towering rock locally 

 called " Stand-a-laney," the finest of three such masses,* form 

 some of the wonders of the south-east coast of Scotland. Nor 

 can we overlook the enjoyment which the familiar Martin 

 gave us, as we saw its nests in the snug crevices of these 

 precipitous cliffs. 



We at length reached Innerwick Castle, which is an old 

 seat of the Stewarts, but which passed into the possession of 

 the Hamiltons. Its venerable ruin stands on a steep eminence 

 overhanging a rocky glen, through which flows Thornton 

 Burn. It was evidently an ancient strength of considerable 

 importance. Grose gives a drawing of it in his Antiquities. 

 On the opposite height, within striking distance, anciently 

 stood Thornton Castle, a stronghold of Lord Home. The 

 lands hereabouts were thought by James V., in 1537, to be 

 so "commodious" to him that he arranged they should be 

 exchanged for thirty husbandlands in feu of Fishwick, with 

 fishings, etc. The agreement, however, does not appear ever to 

 have been carried out. Both these fortresses were dismantled 

 by Protector Somerset in 1544, and the following quaint 

 account of it, by Patten, has been handed to me by Dr 

 Hardy. 



" While a body of miners were left to blow up the walls of Dunglas 

 Castle, the Army marched on at a distance of a mile and a half 

 northward, and arrived at two pyles or holdes, Thornton and Anderwike, 

 set both on craggy foandations, and divided a stone's cast asunder by 

 a deep gut, wherein ran a little river. Thornton belonged to the Lord 

 Hume, and was kept then by one Tom Trotter; whereunto my Lord's 

 Grace overnight for summons sent Somerset, his herald, toward whom 

 iiii or v of his captain's prikkers with their gaddes ready charged did 

 right hastily direct their course, but Trotter both honestly defended 

 the herald and sharply rebuked his men ; and said for the summons 

 he would come speak with my Lord's Grace himself; notwithstanding 

 he came not, but straight locked up about sixteen poor souls, like the 

 soldiers of Dunglas, fast within the house, took the keys with him, 

 and commanding them they should defend the house and tarry within 

 (as they could not get out) till his return, which should be on the 

 morrow, with munition and relief, he with his prikkers prikt quite 

 his ways. Anderwick pertained to the Lord of Hambleton (Hamilton) 

 and was kept by his son and heir (whom of custom they call the 

 Master of Hamilton) and an viii more with him, gentlemen for the 

 most part, as we heard say. My Lord's Grace, at hia coming nigh, 



* The "Dove Rooks" of Forrest's Map. 



