Note 17 — YOUNG ARGYLE; OR, STANZAS TO LETHINGTON CASTLE.

The old tower of Lethington, we have observed, was built by the Giffords. Hugh Gifford de Yester, who died in 1267, was esteemed a notable magician, and formed by magic art, a capacious cavern in his castle of Yester, called in the country Bohall, (i. e. Hobgoblin Hall.)—Fordun, vol. ii. p. 105. This spacious room, with a vaulted roof, still remains entire.