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There is no reason to doubt but that the patriot Seton 

 suffered at the common place of execution at that day. This 

 place and its neighbourhood appear to have gone under the 

 name of the " HuUerbass," the termination of this word being 

 a corruption perhaps of bourse or place of meeting. The 

 term has been happily transmuted into the Lover's Walk — 

 which it still bears. 



This beautiful little chapel, so significant in its form of 

 the purpose for which it was erected, gradually went to decay, 

 and the remaining materials were taken to assist in fortifying 

 the town at the time of the rebellion of 1715. 



Our Lady Chapel. 



When King James IV. passed through Dumfries in one 

 of his many pilgrimages to St. Ninians he went to Our Lady's 

 Chapel at the end of the town, and there made his offering, 

 but we have no particulars of its locality or structure. It 

 was perhaps when this chapel was erected, that Sir Christo- 

 pher's Chapel got the name of the Old Chapel. 



Of the streets and private dwellings we have some account, 

 though comparatively recent, in the " Journey through Scotland 

 in 1723." 



" I passed the river Mth from GaUoway," says the author, 

 " to Dumfries, over a fair stone bridge .... the finest 

 I saw in Britain next to London and Eochester. There is a 

 street that leads from the bridge by an easy ascent to the 

 Castle,* which is on the east of the town, and hath a com- 

 manding prospect of the town and adjacent country. And 

 from it the High Street runs by an easy descent to the church 

 at half a mile's distance. This High Street is spacious, with 

 good stone buildings on each side ; those on the north side 

 having their hanging gardens to the river side. The Exchange 

 and Town House are about the middle of the street towards 

 the south, and besides this great street, Lochmaben Street 



* The Friars' Vennel. 



