58 Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



Covenanters lay encamped on Duns Law in 1639, and the 

 bedroom which he is said to have occupied was shown to the 

 company. About the close of the 17th century, a considerable 

 addition was made to the Castle, when it came into possession 

 of the Drummelzier family, by the first Hon. William Hay of 

 that name, second son of the Earl of Tweeddale, who married 

 Elizabeth Seton, daughter of the first Viscount Kingston. At a 

 , later period the semicircular tower above-mentioned was added at 

 the back by Alexander Hay of Drummelzier, great-grandfather 

 of the present Mr Hay. Nothing more seems to have been done 

 to the building until 1820, when the late Colonel Hay threw off 

 at the angles of the old structure the tall battlemented turrets 

 which now form such characteristic features of the edifice, added 

 a main doorway on the south side in a style to correspond with 

 the turrets, and converted the original square windows into large 

 lights of late Gothic form, and containing ap^iropriate tracer}'. 

 At the same time he did away with a number of bedrooms in 

 the centre of the building, to make room for a new entrance hall 

 with beautiful late Gothic decorations, and built an addition to 

 the west side of the portion constructed by the first Mr Hay. By 

 these operations the external aspect of the Castle was almost com- 

 pletely transformed; and it is now in the opinion of many the 

 stateliest and most beautiful building of the kind in the county. 

 The original walls are, however, almost entire, and very little 

 change has been made upon the ground plan, which is given on 

 a small scale, with a description of the Castle, in Vol. v, of 

 Messrs MacGibbon and Ross's work before cited. 



A number of portraits of great historical interest adorn the 

 walls of the different rooms. Amongst these may be mentioned 

 James I. of England and VI. of Scotland, by Cornelius Jansen ; 

 the Chevalier St. George ; his Consort the Princess Clementina 

 Sobieski of Poland ; and their sons, Prince Charles Edward 

 Stuart (" Bonnie Prince Charlie,") and the Cardinal Duke of 

 York. These four portraits were presented by the exiled Royal 

 Family to Mr Alexander Hay of Drummelzier, who was 

 an ardent Jacobite, in recognition of important services 

 rendered by the family. Another most interesting picture is a 

 family group of George, Lord Seton, and his children. Of this 

 nobleman, who figures in history as the constant adherent of 

 Mary Queen of Scots, Mr Hay is a direct descendant in the 

 female line. Amongst the other portraits are members of the 



