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Parish of Borthwick

Extract from the Old Statistical Account Volume 13 Page 633.

"About the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century lived a Sir William Borthwick who
"being a man of very great parts was employed as an Ambassador on several important negotions and
"concerned in most of the public transactions of his time. This William appears to have been created
"Lord Borthwick before the year 1430; for in October that year at the baptism of the Kings two sons several
"Knights were created and among the rest William son and heir of Lord Borthwick. He obtained
"from James 1st of Scotland a licence to build a castle on the lands of Lochwarret. A stately and
"most magnificient castle was accordingly reared, and afterwards became the chief seat and
"title of the family. This amazing mass of building is yet upon the whole very entire and of
"astonishing strength." _________________