Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

ST.\PLKTON TOWEIIS. • CCC.xli
The lauds aud tower were disposed of by tlm Aiiiwudale family to an Irving, a
banker in Aunan. From liis trustees Stapleton was acquired by its present proprietor,
John A. CriteUley, Esquire.
COi;rJE OR LUN.'
The lands of Corrie, -wlncli are situated in the united parishes of Corrie and Htittun,
were the possessinu of the Corries of Corrie from the twelfth centrny. They were
acquired by the Johnstones in the beginning of the sixteenth century. On 27th
October 1516 James Johnstone of John.stone received a crowu charter of the forty
shilling land of Lund aud others, which Robert Lord Maxwell personally resigned.
The tower of Liin, which had been tlic residence of the family of Corrie, was, accord-
ing to tradition, burned by the Cells ^ about this time, aud never rebuilt, and there is
no evidence that it was ever inhabited by the Johustoncs. The .site of the tower now
forms a part of the farm of Corriemains. The ruins give evidence that the tower had
becu a considerable erection. It was built of common whinstone. The south gable,
which is about thirty feet high,, is all that now rciaains of the building.
The Tower of Luu is situated on a bond of the riwr Milk, about a mile to the
east of Corrie water, at its junction with the Milk at the farm of Balstack. It is
surrounded on throe sides by the river. Its situation, altliough low-lying, is very
beautiful, aud commands fine viev.s up and down the river. The natural earth
terraces between the tower or castle and the river are about twenty feet in height, and
contributed to make it a place of considerable strength.
WAMI'HRAY PLAGE.
On IGth June 1357, confirmati'_'n was granted by Piobert, steward of Scotland, as
lieutenant of King David the Second, of a gift by John of Corry to Roger of Kirk-
patrick of the lauds of AVanii)hray. ' A century later Wamphray was in the i)Osscssiou
of Sir. Robert Crcichtoun of Sanquhar, who in 1-150 received a crown charter of the
fivc-merk land of ^^'amphray.5 Soon after this Wamphray came into the hands of the
Johnstones of Johnstone, as on 2i!d November 147C, James Johnstone of Johnstone
' Lun is contracted froru Lunnclly. queutly, these Bells carried ofT the d.inglitcr
- Register of the Great Seal, vcpI. iii. No. of Corrie from Lunnelly.
90, jip. 20, 21. * Cliarters of this \sork, p. II.
' They were c.iUcd of ElackwooJ House, ' Register of the Great Seal, vul. ii. No.
near Kirtlebridge, and either then, or siibsc- SSS, p. 10.