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FOURTH PERIOD 508 - PHILORTH HOUSE ancient and imposing castle of his Lordship's ancestors at Cairnbulg. Philorth was built, as recorded beneath the coat of arms inserted in the building (Fig. 934), in 1666, and is the third residence erected by the same family in this neighbourhood. The family lived at Cairnbulg for about 150 years., having also a residence for part of that time at Kin- naird Head, and at the latter they must have resided for about 120 years, before the erection of this house. Philorth is situated in the centre of extensive policies, well sheltered from the scathing east winds, and the house being, as will be seen from the sketch, of a low elevation, is not conspicuous in the surrounding landscape. It has been very considerably altered and added to in modern times, but fortunately the portion in the view here given is still undisturbed, and shows a fine example of a simple but picturesque Scottish mansion of the seventeenth century. KEITH HOUSE, HADDINGTONSHIRE. Keith House and Chapel are situated near the south-western border of Haddingtonshire, and about midway between Blackshiels and Pencait- land. The mansion owes its charm more to its quiet situation and its quaint old gardens than to any architectural display, but although very plain, and modernised in various places, the south front as seen in Fig. 935 is a pleasing example of a late sixteenth-century house. It was one of the seats of the Keiths, the Earls Marischal, and it is stated that the timber of the roof was given by the King of Denmark to George, fifth Earl, in 1589:, when he went thither to conduct to Scotland the Princess Anne, betrothed to James vi. This Earl died at Dimnottar in 1623. The roof now on the building is old, and is probably original. The rooms in the upper floors are panelled in wood, while the ground floor is vaulted. During last century the house seems to have been repaired in the Gothic style (as it was called) which then prevailed, with the result that few interesting features are left either to describe or delineate. Near by the house stand the roofless ruins of a small ivy-clad chapel, having two narrow widely splayed lancet windows, in the east end, with a plain vesica-shaped light in the apex of the gable. In 1199 it was ordained by charter that the chapel of Keith should belong to the chapel of Crichton for ever (see Annals of Dunfermline), and it is possible that this may be the church referred to. There is a Renaissance monument against the south wall to the memories of five of a family of the name of Anderson, whose deaths took place in the ten years between 1685 and 1695. It is of good design, and elaborate in its workmanship, and of the same style as may