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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CALDER HOUSE | Calder House | The above information is abridged chiefly from Doctor Somers History of the Parish | 004 | This name applies to an ancient mansion situated in the midst of a park containing an area of 200 acres or more, occupying a site on an elevated piece of ground, surrounded with wood of the loftiest Kind, presenting a scene rarely to be met with. The ancient portion of the building of Calder house may be considered as a work of great antiquity, the walls of which are impenetrably hard and are about 7 ft [feet] thick. The present building which covers the above, was erected about 3 centuries back; in the plainest style, about 5 storey high with windows small and inconvenient. The great Hall which is now the drawing room stands upon arches, and in early times was paved with stone. In this large apartment formerly called the Hall of Calder House, John Knox administered the sacrament according to the protestant form, for the first time after the Reformation. The first notice we have on record of this being a place of some importance was in the 14 century; when King Robert the ll [Second] who was then at Calder House, as a visitor of state remitted "dilecto filio nostio Jacobo de Sandylandis, Milite et Johnanne Sponsae suse, filie nostra Karrissimae" and to their lawful heirs in perpetuitie the feudal Casualty" pro Castrewarda Baroniae de Caldoure; This is one of the ancient documents in the hands of the present Lord that shows the importance of the family; but what elevated this noble family, and raised them [continues] |
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[Page] 71P [Plan] 4D List of Names collected by John E Darnan RS [Royal Sappers] & Miners
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[Object] House
[Parish] Mid Calder
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