Ancient castles and mansions of Stirling nobility / described and illustrated by J.S. Fleming (1902)
Fleming, James Sturk · Paisley : A. Gardner, 1902 · leaf 172
rliest charter, so far back as 1450,shews that the office and its duties required a personal attention andresidence, and the present building is certainly about 100 years later.No name, initials, date, or crest, appear on its walls to verify its owner-ship, although it is stated to be similar in… … ?,^.*v lump, BMif \ Wi^M , g ly*: >E4 »>« i i 4 TORWOOD CASTLE. I 69 downwards in a direct unbroken line, it remained and was hereditary inthat family, whose surname most probably originated from their office.David succeeds his father Malcolm in 1476, and on 26th November,1488, James IV.…
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