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[Quotation..Carslogie Castle.. Continued]
Carslogie was at one time very extensive and its lords were men of great power in the district. So late as the time when Dr Campbell wrote, the remains of a stately ash tree called the Jug tree to which criminals were fastened as a punishment was still to be seen and the iron jugs with which the erring vassals of the proud barons of Carslogie were fastened, remained in the tree till 1793 when they fell down. The ancient tree itself was blown down some years ago. Tradition says, that in ancient times when private feuds and quarrels were common among the Scottish barons, the lords of Carslogie were leagued with the proprietors of Scotstarvet, whose residence, Scotstarvet tower, is situated on a lower ridge or shoulder of Tarvet hill, about two miles to the south. The tower of Carslogie being situated in a hollow might have been approached by an enemy without his being observed until very near but the more commanding situation of Scotstarvet enabling the warden on the battlements of the tower, to see an enemy at a greater distance he on occasions of danger instantly sounded his horn which was replied to by the warden from the towers of Carslogie, and the vassals were immediately in arms for the defence of the castle. This tradition is very probably true in its leading facts, but it is erroneous in some particulars. Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, who purchased the estate and built the present [tower] as appears from the arms and inscription upon it, lived in the seventeenth century when such leagues were neither so necessary nor so likely to take place. It must therefore have been during the period when upper Tarvet belonged to the family of Inglis... that [continued]