Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

352 MINSTRELSY OF
THE
LORD HERItlES HIS COMPLAINT,
A FRAGMENT.
NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
BY CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, ESQ.
OF HODDOM.
HoDDOM Castle is delightfully situated on the banks
of the riyer Annan. It is an ancient structure, said to
have been built betwixt the years 1437 and 1484, by
John Lord Herries of Herries, a powerful Border baron,
•who possessed extensive domains inDumfi'ies-shire. This
family continued to flourish until the death of William,
Lord Herries, in the middle of the l6th century, when
it merged in heirs female. Agnes, the eldest of the
daughters of Lord William, was married to John, mas-
ter of Maxwell, afterwards created Lord Herries, and
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