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the shape of land tax and other tributes, and the aggregate would 

 have been much larger had they not on repeated occasions 

 impoverished themselves by their self-sacrificing loyalty to the 

 royal house of Stuart. Their devoted adhesion to the cause of 

 Charles I., the generous assistance given by them to that monarch's 

 heir when he made a futile attempt to recover his ancestral throne, 

 are facts which all must be familiar with. Eugene de Maccuswell 

 by maiTying the daughter of Roland, Lord of Galloway, acquired 

 many broad acres in Kirkcudbrightshire, and his representative 

 there during the first Jacobite rebellion lost them all, and nearly 

 his life also, for the share he took in that enterprise, at once so 

 bold, romantic, and forlorn. Lord Nithsdale, doomed to the scaffold, 

 eluded his jailers through the ingenious strategy of his devoted 

 wife and died in exile. It was gratifying to add that the forfeited 

 estates were eventually bought back by his family for a wonder- 

 fully small sum — £803 sterling, being taken as the yearly rental 

 on the testimony of a surveyor appointed by the Government, 

 which amount was made up chiefly in money, some of the tenants 

 paying their rent in such small items as bolls of barley, hens at 

 tenpence a pair, and peats at a penny per dozen loads. Thirty 

 years prior to the rebellion of 1715, the family, as represented by 

 Lord Herries, possessed nearly the whole of Terregles. In 1819 

 when the parish was valued at no more than ,£2021 Scots, they 

 drew a rental from it of £1457 ; and at present, when the valua- 

 tion has risen to £6847 sterling, they, represented by Captain 

 Maxwell, draw a propoi'tionate income from the parish. The 

 ancient roll shows the names of neai-ly all the farmers and 

 tenants who tilled the soil of Terregles in 1682, together 

 with the value of their holdings. Not a few of them seem 

 to have been "puir tenant bodies," not over-plentiful of cash. 

 Lord Herries kept Terregles Mains in his own hands, the 

 value in the victuals it yielded to him being set down at 

 £5 7s Scois per annum. Then, as now, the brook of Cairn 

 " wimpl't through the glen," and after " cooking underneath the 

 brae, below the spreading hazel," drove a couple of mills which 

 ground the grain fi-om which " bannocks of bere meal and bannocks 

 of barley" were baked for the tables of the noble lord and his 

 tenants. Gleu Mill and New Mill, we are told, were worth to 

 him twenty -one bolls of meal, value £101 10s yearly; but it was 

 to be regretted that the name of the jolly miller, who then lived 



