More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1902)
Malan, Alfred Henry, comp · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 348
aLibrary. Immediately on the destruction of old Inveraray, thepresent Castle was planned, a bowshot off; and when completedwas the largest and grandest domestic building north of theTweed. Quadrangular in ground-plan, with a circular turret run-ning up each corner, it is a storey higher than it… … 317 ,iS flnverarap above and below, are stands of tasselled halberds, used in attend-ance upon that office of Justiciary of Argyll and the Isles whichwas hereditary in this family until its abolition in 1746, when thesum of .£21,000 was paid the Earl of Islay as compensation. Also, some of the…
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