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wes on his way beset and maiste unmercifullie murderit and cut 

 in pieces be Irving' of Gretnohill, Johnstone of The Reidhall, and 

 sundrie utheris, thair adherents and complices thieves of detestabil 

 and niaist unworthie memorie without respect or reassonabil pre- 

 text that micht have muvit them to sic crueltie : For the quhilks 

 cause and for the special interest whilk we haif in the loss of sic 

 ane gentleman soe far devotit to Our service and in the sayme 

 employit for the tyme, &c. . . . Our will is that ye pas to 

 the mercat croces of Drumfries, Lochmabane, &c., denouncing thaim 

 to fyre and sword. Subscrivit with Our (the King's) hand at 

 Drumfries the 4th day of Apryle 1587. 



On the 31st of January, 1526, the Abbot and Convent of the 

 Monastery of Dundrennan grant a letter of Bailliery of their 

 monastery to Robert Lord Maxwell, Edward Maxwell of Loch- 

 rutton, and to his sons, John Maxwell and Edward Maxwell, with 

 the lands of Muloch in the parish of Rerrick as the fee of office. 



King James the Sixth granted a charter to Sir David Murray 

 of Olonyaird, Colvend, brother of John, first Earl of Annaudale, 

 and which was dated at Perth the 9th of July, 1606, the legal 

 seisin which followed upon the ground and evidence of this charter, 

 gives a very full enumeration of the lands which had formerly 

 belonged to the Monastery of Dundrennan, commencing in general 

 with " All and haill the Manor Place of auld extent commonly 

 known as the Monastery of Dundrennand, with the towers, for- 

 talices, edifices, houses and gardens within the precincts of the 

 said Monastery. . . . Items. The park of Saint Michael's 

 Cloiss, and Wm. Tait's Croft," the Fisheries of Culdoch, the two 

 grain mills of Dundrennan. 



From the Glenriddsll MS. we learn that before the year 1789 

 Alexander Reid of Kirkennan, Galloway, who was also a known 

 miniature painter, and at Dumfries executed a now missing oil por- 

 trait of Burns, from the life, which met the approval of the 

 " Scottish Horace Walpole," Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe of Hod- 

 dom, xintiquary, had executed a water-colour drawing of Dun- 

 drennan which Captain Grose copied previous to his own personal 

 visit on the 27th of June, 1789, at which time he made for him- 

 self a drawing of Dundrennan Abbey on the spot, a circumstance 

 corroborated by the famous Captain's own letter to Major Thomas 

 Henry Hutton of Westmeath. The " Carse " of this Gorse letter 

 we take to be short for " Friars" Carse " of " The Whistle " and 



