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HUNTLY CASTLE 277 FOURTH PERIOD Fig. 730, bearing the date 1 626 and the Stewart arras, along with the initials W. S. In Fig. 732 is seen the entrance gateway to the court- yard in front of the castle, now greatly destroyed. Dr. W. Fraser, in his Red Book of Grandtully, states that the castle was probably erected in 1 560. The estate was first possessed by the Stewarts of Innermeath and Lorn at the end of the fourteenth century, and has continued to the present day in the same family, now represented by Sir Archibald Douglas Drummond-Stewart, Bart. The chapel and vestry shown on the plan are modern, and were erected during the present century by one of the proprietors who resided here. An entrance is formed into a small gallery at the west end from the private room on the first floor. A stone over the door of the chapel bears the letters S. W. S. and D. A. M., as shown on the sketch (Fig. 731) beneath the coat of arms. These letters are intended to refer to Sir W. Stewart, Sheriff of Perth in 1626, and Dame Agnes Moncrieff, his wife, but the inscription, like the chapel, is modern. HUNTLY CASTLE, ABERDEENSHIRE. Of this once extensive castle little now remains but the keep. It is DOORS IN PASSAGE: FIG. 734. Huntly Castle. Plan of Basement Floor. said that part of the castle dates from the time of the Strathbogie Earls