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WAUCnOPE AND KARCLOY. 197
among other con.sideratioiiH, that he should sec to the
*' bigging and reparatioun of the lious, tour, and fortahee
ofWauchop."* That he f'ulfdlcd this ohhgation may
be doubted, for in 1530 he and other Border chiel's
were ordered into ward to keep them out of the way
while the king proceeded himself to put down the
disorders of Ewesdale antl Teviotdale-f In 1547, when
Wharton and others under his command were raiding
in Scotland, one of them, Sir Thomas Carleton with
his party, "lay in the old walls of Wauchope Tower,"
which was evidently now a ruin. | To resign this ruin
that it might go to the representatives of those whose
home it had been for a couple of centuries could have
been no great strain on the generosity of the Lords
Maxwell, now the heritable owners, especially since
these Lindsays were among their own partisans. It
seems necessary to suppose that some such transaction
as this took place ; for a territorial designation could
rightfully go only with the actual possession of at least
a portion of the territory in question. This requirement
of custom would be satisfied by ownership of the
castle site ; but there was no inducement for the
Lindsays— assuming that they had regained possession
—to rebuild the place and take up their residence
there. The castle was left to decay, so that in Blaeii's
on the mound
map of 1662 it is marked as a ruin ; and
formed by the debris was built the parish manse of the
* Frazer, Book of Caerlaverock, Vol. I., p. 205; Annstiong, Hist, of
Liddesdah, etc., App., No. XVI.
t Act. Dom. Cone. MS., Vol. XLT., f. 79, quoted Armstrong, /list,
of Liddesdale, etc., p. 272.
X Nieolson and Burns, Westitwreland and Cumberland, Intr. p. LIL,
quoted Armstrong, p. 166.