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AUERDOUR CASTLE 475 FOURTH PERIOD at the apex. The letters undoubtedly stand for William, Earl Morton, and his wife, Lady Anne (Keith), and the letters EWM cut in the same FIG. 904. Aberdour Castle. Gateway to Courtyard. style over one of the windows in the east gable of the latest portion of the house (Fig. 906) stand for the same ninth Earl, who succeeded in 1606, and died 1648. The first portion of the additions to the castle we believe to have been built by the Regent Morton. The details of the two windows in the north-east gable (Fig. 907) have such a close resemblance to those of the gateway in Edinburgh Castle (Fig. 394, vol. i.), which was certainly erected by the Regent Morton, and also to those of the window at Drochil, shown in the view along the corridor (Fig. 679), as at once to raise the presumption that they were designed by the same hand ; and we know that Drochil was built by the Regent Morton, and that it was in progress, and in all likelihood in its present stage of advancement, at his death in 1581 FIG. 905. Aberdour Castle. Doorway in Garden Wall. He succeeded as