Newark Castle, Selkirkshire

The exchequer rolls include payments for repairs, and in the 1460s Thomas Joffrey was master of the castle's fabric.

The castle became the administrative centre of the Royal Forest of Ettrick, and the seven-storey tower house was built in these years.

Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme was made Keeper and Captain of Newark, and Baillie and Chamberlain of Ettrick Forest in December 1573.

[6] In 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 100 royalist followers of the Marquis of Montrose were shot in the barmkin of Newark after the Battle of Philiphaugh.

The Tower is believed to be haunted by the souls of the 300 slaughtered women and children also murdered at the site after the battle, whose cries are heard each year on 13 September.