Preston Tower, East Lothian

[3] A further two storeys were added above the parapet in 1626,[4] with Renaissance windows[5] bearing the initials SIDKH (Sir John and Dame Katherine Hamilton).

The entrance to the Tower had a lean-to hoarding from which items could be dropped, for instance boulders, hot sand, or boiling oil.

[8] David Hamilton was a Master Usher for Regent Arran, and a depute warden of the Middle March of the border with England.

[10] During her Regency of Scotland, Mary of Guise anticipated an English invasion and asked Hamilton and the inhabitants of Prestonpans and Tranent to accommodate and provide food for French soldiers in May 1555 and February 1558.

[13] In August 1617, James VI and I (who had returned to Scotland for a visit) made Preston and Prestonpans a free barony for George Hamilton's grandson John and his wife Jean Otterburn, including rights to hold St Jerome's fair for three days in October and rebuild the harbour.

[22] The site also has a laburnum arch, and a herb garden, and a lectern-style doocot[23] which dates from the mid-17th century, after Cromwell had sacked the Tower.