Note 8 — Chapter V
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This castle and its fortifications were demolished by Sir Eustace Maxwell, (the steady, warm-hearted friend of King Robert Bruce,) lest it should fall into the hands of the enemy: and for which generous action lands were given to him, the tenure by which he held them being thus noticed:—"Pro fractione et prostratione castri de Caerlaverock," &c. &c.