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a small pantry. There are two otiier rooms on tliis floor at the 

 back of the house entering from this landing, and probably one 

 of the doors in the larger apartment of Prince Charlie's room 

 entered into the room on the left of the landing. This cannot 

 now, however, be exactly determined, as a passage lias been taken 

 off this back room to afford an entrance to the tenement on the 

 north, which is now occupied as part of the hotel. 



A party of the Highlandei's also went out to Terregles, and 

 seem to have been put up there. This is a fact not generally 

 known, but we learn it from the minutes of the Kirk-session of 

 Terregles, because in one of those semi- judicial inquiries (wliicli 

 Kirk-sessions were so fond of holding in those days) a date late 

 in December is fixed as being about the time " wlien the 

 Highland men came first to Dumfries, and when Rodger 

 M'Donald came to the place of Terregles." He was probably 

 lodged in the house of Thomas Coverlie, at Bowhouse, who seems 

 to have been a dependent of the Terregles family, as he was then 

 in Edinburgh with Lady Nithsdale. However, his wife was at 

 home, and no doubt did the honours of tlie house ; and we are 

 told by Susan Edgar, daughter of Samuel Edgar in Bowliouse 

 (one of the witnesses before Terregles Kirksession in the inquiry), 

 that, it having been reported that this Rodger M'Donald had 

 threatened to take away her father's horse, she and a friend went 

 to Thomas Coverlie's house between 12 and 1 o'clock on a 

 Friday night (probably the 20th of December) to look in at the 

 window and see if Roger M'Donald was there. As they did not 

 see him, it was evidently thought that some mischief was afoot, 

 because " after that she and others in her father's house fled away 

 to Cornlie with their horses." Cornlie is in Irongray parish, and 

 is about five miles from Bowhouse. The above, I think, shows 

 that the then laird of Terregles was favourable to the Jacobite 

 cause, although he did not join the forces, and it is not wonderful 

 that his sympathies ran that way, for he was the son of that Earl 

 of Nithsdale who was " out " in the Rising of 1715, and who was 

 only saved from a violent death on the scaffold for his part in 

 that affair by being smuggled out of the tower in the guise of a 

 serving woman by his wife Winefred, Countess of Nithsdale. 

 The estate of Terregles escaped confiscation at that time, because 

 it had been conveyed to liis sou before the Earl took part in the 

 first Rising ; but the title was abolished, although among his 

 friends the sou, William Maxwell ot Nithsdale, who was the 



