Notes on Cttmmertrees. 85 



Brus, who got the grant of Annandale from David I. They held 

 possessions not only in Annandale but also in Cumberland, and 

 perhaps took their name from its county town. One of them, a 

 Sir John Carlyle, was made Lord Carlyle of Torthorwald for 

 inflicting a defeat on the English at Annan, and to him, Froude 

 relates, that a Dumfries antiquary traced with apparent success, 

 through ten generations, the ancestry of the greatest who has yet 

 borne the name Uarlyle, when he became famous, aud that 

 although they laughed a good deal about it in the house in Cheyne 

 Row, Carlyle himself was inclined to think that upon the whole 

 the genealogy was correct. 



" Kinnemid," where Adam de Carleol was settled, is now 

 known as Kinmount. It is named with more distinctness in another 

 charter of William de Brus in Drumlanrig muniment room. There 

 the inventory states that there are two charters to Adam de 

 Carleol, son of Robert, of the land and mill of Kynimmount, with 

 the woods and pasture grounds there described with precision. 

 The inventory also shows other charters in favour of later Carlyles, 

 granted by Thomas Ranulph, Earl of Murray and Lord of Annan- 

 dale, and conferring upon them certain other subjects at Kinmount. 

 Being without a knowledge of the contents of these charters, it is 

 impossible to say what extent of property in the parish was held 

 by the Carlyles in those early times. Whatever it comprised it 

 remained with them for hundreds of years. The Kinmount pro- 

 perty was in the hands of the Torthorwald Carlyles up to the 

 beginning of the 17th century. Then fortune frowned and a 

 change came. Having got entangled in difficulties through law 

 suits they had to part with it in 1613 to Sir Robert Douglas, 

 master of the horse to Henry, Prince of Wales. The property 

 passed from Sir Robert Douglas in 1633 to William, First Earl of 

 Queensberry. Kinmount continued in the possession of his 

 descendants till within the last few months, when the whole of 

 the estate, with the exception of two or three farms, was sold to a 

 neighbouring proprietor. 



In reference to the Prestende mentioned in the charter, it 

 may be assumed to answer to that portion of the parish which lies 

 along the Solway and is now known as the Priestside. This is the 

 first notice we have of salt-pans in that place. In this connection 

 there used to be a tradition that the right of making salt was 

 granted to the people in the Priestside district by Robert the 



