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AFFLECK CASTLE 251 THIRD PERIOD by 7 feet, lighted by two small windows. This was evidently a private room or bedroom. Off' this, up two steps, is a garde-robe, lighted from the outside, and having a small spy-window into the hall, as seen on the section. We have several examples of these windows, as at Libert on, Elphinstone, and elsewhere, and in all cases they were doubtless for the use of the lord or lady of the house, to enable them unseen to overlook what was going on in the hall. Every person going to the upper floors SECOND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR GROUND FLOOR SECTION FIG. 207. Affleck Castle. Plans, Section, and Details. must of necessity go through the hall and pass under this window, so as to reach the other stair, which begins on this level at the opposite side of the hall, and leads to the top. The floor above this has been the with- drawing-room. It is similar in arrangement to the hall, only that its fireplace is in the east wall. Opening off this apartment, up one step, there is a beautiful little chapel or oratory (see enlarged Plan, Fig. 207, and view, Fig. 209), entering through a round arch 4 feet 9 inches wide. The chapel, which has a circular vault, measures 7 feet 5 inches by 6 feet 10 inches, and is 8 feet 6' inches high, and is lighted by a small cusped window on the west side. On the wide splayed jamb of the