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PITREAVIE 537 FOURTH PERIOD Ladyship's death " the house passed to her daughters, Margaret, Countess of Moray, and Anne, Countess, afterwards Duchess, of Lauderdale, be- tween whom the entire property of their father, the first Earl of Home, appears to have been divided, his title going into another line. By an arrangement between the two sisters, the house became, in 1645, the property of the Countess of Moray, and her son James, Lord Doune." Hence the name " Moray House," the building having previously been known as " Lady Home's Lodging." The further history of this house, with the remarkable scene enacted on the balcony while Montrose was being led to execution, its occupa- tion by Cromwell, and the events connected with the Union transacted within its bounds, will be found in the various works specially relating to Old Edinburgh. We have been unable to discover when the additions (shown by hatched lines on Plan) were made, but they are evidently of a consider- ably later date. The front towards the Canongate with its horizontal unbroken eaves, without dormer windows, resembles the work of the end of the seventeenth century, while the large room added in the garden seems to be still later. These were probably added, in order to provide larger public rooms for the house, the original dining- and drawing-room being found too small. It will be observed that these buildings are not arranged in accordance with any traditional plan, but are simply placed where required, while a convenient staircase is intro- duced, and a wide entrance hall is formed exactly as in a modern mansion. PITREAVIE, FIFESHIRE. This mansion is situated between Dunfermline and Iiiverkeithing, and about two miles distant from the latter. The house is of an advanced type of seventeenth-century planning, and is a perfect contrast to the tall vaulted towers of the previous and even of the same century. It is oblong on plan (Fig. 959)^ with two wings of equal size projecting from the north side. The oblong is 66 feet 6 inches in length by 25 feet, and the wings about 19 feet by 14 feet. The plan to a certain extent resembles that of Castle Stewart. The entrance is on the eastern or inner side of the west wing by a doorway with a finely moulded opening (Fig. 960), surmounted with a pediment, having the initials of Sir Henry Wardlaw entwined with curious knotted root-like wreaths. Above the pediment is a star, the crest of the Wardlaws. The house being quite symmetrical, a corresponding doorway is in- troduced in the other wing, which, however, only leads into a cellar