186 HousE OF THE MAXWELLS OF NITHSDALE. 
Douzquer (Sweetheart), the first day being counted and not the 
last, for 48 days, £36.”’ 
Note.—For “ Oxford ’’ in Dr Chinnock’s paper on this subject in 
last issue read Otford. Otford is near Sevenoaks, Kent, 
where was a residence of the Archbishop.—Ep. 
6th April, 1906. 
Chairman—Rey. JoHn Carrns, M.A., Vice-President. 
New MemBers.—Provost Halliday, Esthwaite, Lochmaben, 
and Mr D. Manson, Acrehead, Dumfries. 
Tue HousE oF THE MAXWELLS OF NITHSDALE AT DUMFRIES. 
By JAMEs BarBour, F.S.A. Scot. 
Elsewhere the writer has endeavoured to show that there were 
two castles here, namely, the King’s Castle of Dumfries at Castle- 
dykes and a house of the Maxwells of Nithsdale, which occupied 
the site of the present Greyfriars’ Church, at the head of High 
Street and adjacent to the spot where the ancient Friary stood. 
These are referred to and discriminated by the Rev. Dr Burnside, 
minister first of the New Church and afterwards of St Michael’s, 
1780-1806, in a MS. history of the town and parish of Dumfries. 
It was written in 1790 for Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account of 
Scotland, and printed in that work in abridged form. Castle- 
dykes is called a castle of the Cumyns, the chief residence of the 
family being Dalswinton, seven miles up the river. We do not 
know of any authority for this designation; and the Wardrobe 
Account of the twenty-eighth year of Edward First and the 
numerous State papers containing references to the castle cata- 
logued by Stevenson and Bain invariably speak of it as the Castle 
of Dumfries, or the King’s Castle of Dumfries. But the more 
important conclusion affirmed by Dr Burnside is that Castledykes 
is the castle round which King Edward, in the year 1300, placed a 
palisade, worked in the forest of Inglewood, and which John de la 
Dolive and William Arnold de Podio held for the English. That 
is to say, it is the castle concerned in the war of succession and 
