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12 Parish of Balmerino. [continuing quotation re the Castle of Naughton]
"To the east is Naughton a tower upon a high rock built by Robertus de Lundon natural son to King William. Soon after it came to the Hays when after I find Lairds of Nauchton about King Alexander III's [3rd] reign. In King III's time Eustachius de Chrichton got in marriage with daughter and heir of Sir John de la Hay. From the Chrichtons Mr. Peter Hay a son of megginshes in Angus purchased it in James VI's [6th] time whose posterity now have it" Sibbalds History of Fife, pp 413.414.415.

"The old castle of Naughton already alluded to is equally now the "Shadow of a Shade" all that remains of it being a few fragments of the lower parts of the side walls. This place is said to have been built by Robert de Lundon a natural son of King William. Soon after Naughton was acquired by John de Haya the third son of William de Haya the first of the family of Errol. The Hays are mentioned as Lairds of Naughton about King Alexander III's [3rd] reign. In 1494 Sir Patrick Chrichton got the lands in marriage with Janet the daughter and heiress of Sir James de la Hay. From the Chrichtons Mr. Peter Hay a son of the Laird of Megginsh purchased the lands in the beginning of the seventeenth century. In the year 1737 the estate was brought to a judicial sale by the creditors of Robert Hay of Naughton and purchased by William Morrison Esq. the great grandfather of the present proprietor Mrs. Bethune Morison." New. Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Fife page 587.