The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 543
he erection of the castle was one of the alleged causes ofthe assembling of an army by Henry in., in 1243, for the invasion ofScotland. He maintained that this fortress was too near the Border(which at that time was the Liddel Water), and would be a constantmenace to England. The castle was no… … HERMITAGE WATEf Fio. 448.—Hermitage Castle. Plan of Site. William de Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale, got a grant of the castlefrom David ii. Thereafter it passed into the hands of the Earls ofAngus in 1398, and it is probable that the castle was enlarged by themabout the beginning of the fifteenth…
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