Tue Castle oF DumrFRIES. 91 
20 shillings a year to the said ward, etc. Of the dues 
from the Burgh of Kirkcudbright in Galloway, from the said 15th 
day of October in the 9th year, up to the 8th day of November 
next following, on which day the king granted to John Mareschal 
to be had and to be held by himself and his heirs until the same 
king shall have provided for him elsewhere within the kingdom of 
Scotland 20 marks of land, to be had by him and his heirs by 
brief, there is no reply, because the said burgh was waste at the 
time of this account. Of the Mote of the Castle, and certain 
demesne lands called Kingsholm, at Dumfries, which were wont to 
be worth 60 shillings a year, there is no reply, from the foresaid 
cause, etc.”’ 
“From the barony of Kirkmichael, which belonged to Philip 
de Moubray, deceased, who held it in capite of the King of Scot- 
land on paying to the Ward of the Castle of Dumfries 10 shillings 
a year, and was wont to be worth 100 marks a year, from the Ist 
day of October in the 10th year, on which day the barony was 
taken into the king’s hand, until the rights of the same barony 
issettled. . . . upto the feast of St. Michael next following, 
there is no reply, because it is waste. From the barony of 
Tinwald, which belonged to Peter de Middleton, deceased, who 
held of the king in capite for the service of paying 10 shillings to 
the ward of the king’s castle of Dumfries, and which was wont 
_ to be worth £20 a year, from the 20th day of October until the 
feast of St. Michael next following, and remaining in the king’s 
hands through the minority of the heir of the same Peter, there is 
no reply, for the reason foresaid, etc. The sum of the whole re- 
ceived, £17 18s 4d, and in wages of one man guarding payments 
in the same place receiving 1d a day during the time of this 
account, for 350 days, 29 shillings, 2 pence, and so he owes 
£16 9s 2d, which he has paid, and is satisfied.’’ 
The following relates to the Burgh :-— 
“ Account of Gervase Avenel and William Malkynson, John 
Smerles and John de Lang, bailiffs of the burgh of Dumfries, 
from the said 15th day of October until the feast of St. Michael 
next following.’’ 
“The same renders account from the farm of the burgh of 
Dumfries from the terms of St. Martin and Whitsuntide last past, 
of £9 16s 8d, and 2 shillings due from the burgage of William 
Malkynson in the said burgh, being in the king’s hand, through 
