114 CLAVERHOUSE IN DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY. 
gallant as Bayard, faithful as Douglas. There is disillusion- 
ment in hearing that he was diminutive (wearing a cuirass only 
153 inches deep), not shapely, red haired, squinting fiery 
tempered, fond of other people’s moveables. So Joseph 
Robson, an old friend of Morrison’s father, was wont to narrate. 
He saw “ Claverhouse attending the murder of two martyrs on 
the sands of Dumfries. He rode his horse along the coping of 
a parapet wall, built to guard off the waters of the Nith in time 
of floods, and when the horse had arrived at one end, he 
wheeled round on one of his hind legs as on a pivot, repeating 
the same manceuvre. His arms were long, and reached to his 
knees; his hair red or frizzly, and his look altogether diaboli- 
cal.’’ That such really was the presentment of the persecutor I 
have other evidence to show, and such a picture is the true 
counterpart of the sleepless rider of the moorhags and moun- 
tains, and the merciless legislator of the Privy Council. 
With James as his patron he was not long in vaulting into 
position again. On 20th of September he was promoted to be 
Major-General, with a substantial pension, and on 12th Novem- 
ber, 1688, he had the royal reward for his devotion in his eleva- 
tion to the peerage of Scotland, with the title of Viscount of 
Dundee and Lord Graham of Claverhouse. He fell leading 
the royal army at Killiecrankie on 27th July, 1689. His widow 
and only child were killed in Antwerp.. The occasion of Dun- 
dee’s visit for the last time to Dumfriesshire and Galloway I have 
not discovered. 
20th March, 1908. 
Chairman—The PRESIDENT. 
DevyorcILta BALIOL AND THE OLD BRIDGE OF DUMFRIES. By 
Mr’JaMEs Barbour, F.S.A.(Scot.). 
The Old Bridge of Dumfries is, with the exception of cer- 
tain earthworks at Castledykes, the only reputed medizval 
monument in the town which has escaped entire destruction. 
It has, however, come down sadly diminished and marred of its — 
fair proportions. Of nine large arches of which it consisted, 
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