192 HOUSE OF THE MAXWELLS OF NITHSDALE. 
sufficient, and the roof was not altogether watertight. Withal the 
first two storeys are sufficient enough for the conveniency of a 
greater garrison than is appointed. On 14th September report 
was made by some workmen that £80 (Scots?) would make the 
roof of the castle watertight. On 3rd January, 1681, a letter from 
the Privy Council, ordaining a garrison of 30 horse to be furnished 
at the Castle of Dumfries, was considered. It was recommended 
to the magistrates to sight the stables and assist in providing what 
may be useful, and to furnish the high rooms of the castle with 
beds and dales, and cause the windows to be filled up with divots. 
The castle, according to Dr Burnside’s MS., was sold by the 
last Earl of Nithsdale, whose romantic escape from the Tower is. 
well known, before the vear 1715, to M‘Dowall of Logan, from 
whom the town acquired the site for the New Church in 1722. 
The site purchased is described in the Town Council minutes as 
the foundation of the old castle pertaining to John M‘Dowall, 
younger of Logan, with a large part of the clese, and 90 feet 
square of the castle garden. 
This being the castle associated with “ Lord Maxwell’s Good- 
Night,’’ we will conclude with a few stanzas of the ballad :— 
Adieu, madame, my mother dear, 
But and my sisters three! 
Adieu, fair Robert of Orchardstane! 
My heart is wae for thee. 
Adieu, the lily and the rose, 
The primrose fair to see; 
Adieu, my lady, and only joy! 
For I may not stay with thee. 
Though I hae slain the Lord Johnstone, 
What care I for their feid ? 
My noble mind their wrath disdains— 
He was my eather s deid. 
Adieu! aati my prope: place, 
But and Caerlaverock fair ! 
Adieu! my castle of the Thrieve, 
Wi’ a’ my buildings there! 
Adieu! Lochmaben’s gate sae fair, 
The Langholm holm, where birks there be ; 
Adieu! my ; ladye, and only joy, 
For trust me, I may not stay with thee. 
Authorities: ‘‘ Book of Caerlaverock,’’ Sir Herbert: Maxwell’s 
History, Dr Burnside MS., Mr William Dickie’s ‘‘ Dumfries and 
Round About,” 
