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with the street which now bears its name and traversing the 

 nursery grounds to the south of English Street, crosses the line 

 of Queen's Place, and falls into the Nith at the Dock Park. 

 This view, perhaps, finds confirmation in the fact that a good 

 part of the land whose boundaries are thus indicated is still 

 Church land, being occupied by the present glebe of St. Michael's. 

 Such are the most interesting of the references to the town of 

 Dumfries in the Register of Kelso Abbey. Others might have 

 been added relating to places in the district, such as Morton, 

 Closebiirn (always written here Killosbern, the Cell or Church of 

 Osborne), and Trailflat, all of whose churches belonged to Kelso 

 Abbey, but this would have unduly lengthened this paper as well 

 as interfered with its unity. I hope, however, that enough has 

 been said to show what an interesting field for study those old 

 collections of charters present, as well as to dispel a little of the 

 darkness which hangs over medijeval Dumfries. 



The following is the text of the documents or the relative 

 parts of them to which I'eference has been made in the foregoing 

 paper : — 



/. — Ccnfirmatio Regis Wilielmi fratris Malcolmi eidem succedens 

 supra concessionibus antedictis. 



Wilielmus et rex, frater ejus, ei succedens confirmat omnia 

 praedicta et addit ecclesiam de Dunfres cum Capella Sancti 

 Thomae in ipso burgo cum omnibus earum pertinentiis infra 

 burgura et extra. (Reg. Cart de Kelso Jf..) 



II. — Carta super ecclesiam de Dunfres et Capellam Sancti Thomae, 

 Wilielmus rex . . dedi et concessi prenominatis monachis 

 ad usus et occupationenem ipsius ecclesiae de Kalchou, ecclesiam 

 de Dunfres cum terris et decimis et omnimodis oblationibus et cum 

 capella Sancti Thomae in ipso burgo, et cum tofta ad ipsam 

 capellam pertinente, et cum quinque acris terrae quas eidem 

 ecclesiae et capellae in liberam elemosinam dedi, et per Philippum 

 de Valoniis tradi feci, et cum omnibus aliis ejusdem ecclesiae 

 justis pertinentiis. Ita ne liceat alicui ecclesiam illam vel 

 capellam, aut earum redditus sive beneficia ab occupatione 

 ecclesiae de Kalchou et propriis usibus monachorum quoquomodo 

 alienare. [Ibid, 13 cf Jfll.) 



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