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FOURTH PERIOD 66 NIDDRIE MARISCHALL HOUSE the inscription. "This tome ves biggit be Robert Vauchope of Nydry Marischel, and enteris heir, P.P. 1587 ;" and 011 the flat round the edge is the further inscription to the memory of his father, William, who died in 1587. As before mentioned William's brother, Adam, built Cakemuir Castle (q-v.), a fine old baronial house near Tynehead. Some sculptured stones belonging to the chapel, or perhaps to the older castle, are built into the enclosing wall. These include the Royal arms, the lion rampant, a panel with arched top (pointed) and surrounded with curved crockets, and what looks like the bowl of a baptismal font, and other carved and lettered stones. CORGARFF CASTLE, ABERDEENSHIRE. This has originally been a simple oblong tower, to which various additions have within comparatively recent times been made, giving it an imposing and strongly fortified aspect. The castle stands on a height amongst the uplands of the head streams of the river Don, an inaccessible and dreary country. Tradition states that it was built by one of the Earls of Mar as a hunting-seat. It afterwards belonged to the Forbeses, and was destroyed in 1581 during their feuds with the Gordons. Indeed this castle disputes with Towie (q.v.) the unenviable distinction of having been the scene of Adam Gordon of Auchendoun's horrid tragedy. FIG. 532. Corgarff Castle. "Plan. The original tower (shown by the black shade on Fig. 532) probably belongs to the early part of the sixteenth century, but was rebuilt after its destruction in 1581. It is 35 feet long by 24 feet wide, with walls about 6 feet thick. The basement is vaulted, and is divided into two apartments or cellars. The entrance door seems to have been on