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198 THE LINDSAYS OK
17th century.'"'" At the present day the j)lace where
the caatle stood is plain enough to be seen IVom the
traces of the moat and the foundations, Init of the
niasouiy only the merest fragment remains on the
steep bank of the Wauchope Watei-. The illustration
facing page 195 gives a view of the site. 'He trees in
the middle distance clothe the sides of the gorge through
which flows the Wauchope Water half-a-mile above its
junction with the river Esk. A modern road from
Langholm to Lockerbie and Annan runs through part
of the moat, passing the old kiikyard of Wauchope,
which is marked by a cross on the drawing. The
obelisk in the distance is the monument to Sir John
Malcolm standing on Whita Hill on the iarther side of
the town of Langholm.
The fifteenth laird left issue
—
(1) James, his heir.
(2) Oharles.f
James Lindsay of Wauchope and Barcloy,
Sixteenth Laird, was served heir to his father 20th
January 1607. \ In the same year he was included in
a commission of tire and sword against two of the
servitors of Lord Sanquhar, outlawed for the slaughter
of Andrew Lindsay of llascarrel.§ Like other Lindsays
of Galloway he was attached to the house of Maxwell,
and when in 1612 Lord Maxwell was a fugitive from
the law for the murder of the Laird of Johnstone, he
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* MacFatlaiie's Gevfjraphical Cullectiuns, Vc.l. I., p. 39U, Scot. Hist.
t Re(j. Priv. Cuun., Vol. II., 2nd Ser., p. 535 ; Minute Bvok of the
War Committee of the Covenanters, Kirkcudbrightshire.
+ Abbrev. Retorn., Annandalc.
S Reg. Fnv. Coun., Vol. XIII., p. 514.