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to the motor, I gave the order for home. This is a
great game district pheasants & partridges abound
in the fields. Partridge driving has recently come
into fashion & now 100 brace is got where 30 would have
been a big bag in the day 10 or 15 years ago. I much
prefer progress on my bicycle than on a motor.
In the latter one is borne so swiftly along that
only a vague impression of the features of the
country is left on the mind, there is no time to
absorb the details. I have no fancy for so going.

23rd Oct. 1908
Cold but still fine weather. Mr. Luke & his motor
arrived for me at 9.30 and off we rattled for Fogo
church. Calling on the minister for the keys of
the church, he showed me two lovely silver com:
:munion cups presented by George Trotter of
Charterhall in 1662 – with the Trotter arms on them.
Fogo Church is a quaint structure
(with a gallery at either end with separate entrances from the outside) which was completely
restored in the latter half of the 18th cent. [century] The arms
of Hog of Harcarse with date 1677 are emblazoned
in front of the East gallery and those of George
Trotter of (?) Charterhall are sculptured on a stone
inserted in the wall of the Charterhall loft at the
West end. Into the outside of the South side of
the church has been inserted a quaint panel
- 29 in. [inches] by 20 -
with the figures of two men in long frockcoats and
heavy wigs with a woman between
having a sash or girdle round her waist. A scroll
is held across the chest of each of the men bearing a
Latin inscription in part obliterated “Vive Memor Lethi” over
all is the legend “We three served God lived in his fear
And loved him Who brought us dear.”
Entrance to the Harcarse Aisle at the E. [East] end not being
obtainable I did not see the burial slab described by
Mr Ferguson (see notes). Less than half a mile north of

Printonan
West Printonan stand the ruins of an old keep.
64 ft. [feet] long 23. ft [feet] broad with a projecting wing 11ft. [feet] in length
to the north. Only fragments of the walls of the basement remain
which show signs of vaulting. Going on to Leitholm
I left the motor & proceeded along a lane to Belchester
where in a field to the west of the house are the remains
of a fort. Occupying a plateau on the north slope
of a hill it has been an oval fort. of the defences
only a ditch about 44ft [feet] from top of scarp to top of
counterscarp and 14ft. [feet] across the bottom in part remains.
The ramparts have been entirely obliterated as also
has the ditch on the N. and N.E. [North and North East]. Half a mile from
Leitholm & a few hundred yards W. [West] of Stain:
:rigg are the remains of Leitholm Peel. A rectangular
Tower 24 ft. [feet] x 30. of which the N.W. [North West] or back wall survives to a
height of about 20 ft, [feet] the side walls rather less and
the S.E. [South East] entirely demolished. There is a door-way on
the floor level on the N.E. [North East] side. The walls are 4 ft. [feet] thick.
The Cross at Cross Hall exactly answered to the description

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