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FOURTH PERIOD 550 FOUNTAINHALL of Justice, with the title of Lord Magdalens, in 1628, as the carvings above referred to indicate. The house of Northfield (already described) which stands 011 the opposite side of the road, was built, or at least greatly altered, by Joseph Marjoribanks in l6ll. He and Sir John Hamilton (Lord Magdalens) married sisters of the name of Sympson, whose arms are impaled with those of their husbands on each building. The difference in style of the two edifices is very marked, and shows the rapid strides with which the Renaissance style was encroaching, in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, on the old native method of design. Magdalens House was occupied by troops in 1814, during the time of the expected invasion of Napoleon, whence the name of "the Barracks," by which it is locally known. We have to thank Mr. Hislop for several of the above interesting particulars. FOUNTAINHALL. MIDLOTHIAN. Fountainhall is a fine specimen of a Scottish mansion-house of the end of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, beautifully situated amid old trees, near the village of Ormiston in Midlothian. The building is quite entire, and still inhabited, and a more charming example of an old Scottish residence it would be difficult to imagine. FIG. 971. Fountainhall. Plan. It consists of a long range of buildings (Fig. 971), with a return wing at the east end, the whole having been built apparently at three different but not long separated periods. The west end is the oldest part, and is four stories high (Fig. 972). It contains the entrance doorway, with the stair in the wing to the first floor, while the turret corbelled out in the angle contains a newel staircase leading to the upper floors. This turret, as it exists at present, goes no higher than the centre of the attic window, seen in the view at the gable ; but it is evident from the appearance of the building that it was continued nearly as high as the gable chimney, as shown in the sketch.