IRONGRAY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 59 
turned by the supervisors of Excise (May 7, 1746) that at least 
one Irongray man was out in the ’45, William Maxwell, son of 
Maxwell of Barncleugh, who is returned as a prisoner. In Sir 
Herbert Maxwell’s “ History of Galloway ’’ (p. 325) there is a 
quotation from the journal of a neighbouring minister, Mr 
George Duncan, of Lochrutton, describing how he felt when the 
young chevalier entered Dumfries on his return from England, 
December 22, 1745:—‘“ A melancholy day—the rebels in Dum- 
fries about 4000, with the Pretender’s son at their head, in great 
rage at the town for carrying off their baggage from Annandale, 
.and for raising volunteers and calling out the Militia of the 
county in defence of the Government ; demanded £2000 sterling 
.of contributions. They were most rude in the town, pillaged 
some shops, pulled shoes off gentlemen’s feet in the streets. In 
‘most of the churches for some miles round no sermon. God be 
thanked we had public worship. Much confusion in all the 
neighbouring parishes—rebels robbing people’s tables—pillaging 
some houses. They came to the border of our parish, but God 
-be thanked came no further.’’ As the Barncleuch estate marches 
with Lochrutton, we may be pretty sure Irongray was visited by 
the Highland host. 
Jeanie DEANs. 
I am often asked if there is no reference to the tragedy of 
Effie Deans (Tibbie Walker) in the Irongray Records. I am 
-sorry to say we have no records for the year of that tragedy, 
1738, and even if we had, it is improbable that any reference to 
it would have been found, for it was a case for the criminal 
courts, not for the ecclesiastical. All that is likely ever to be 
known on the subject may be found in a very interesting article 
contributed to “Scotsman,’’ May 5, 1906, by my friend, Dr 
King Hewison of Rothesay. That diligent antiquarian has un- 
-earthed most of the details, and corrected not a few errors of 
MacDiarmid’s account, quoted in the notes to “The Heart of 
Midlothian.’’ I need not refer further to this, as his article has 
‘been reprinted in the local papers. 
SCENES AT A FUNERAL. 
The records from October 24, 1714, till February, 1716, 
-are contained in a shabby little book, and are a somewhat mis- 
