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might pass on his decease to his daughters. This new grant was. 
not made until after the Restoration, when Charles II., in 
acknowledgment of the Earl’s loyalty to the royal house, not only 
gave him back all his old titles without the old limitations, but 
added to them, under similar conditions, the titles of Earl of 
Annandale and Viscount Annan, which had become extinct on 
the death of the last Earl of the Murray line, who had died in 
1658. These titles were inherited on his death in 1673 by the 
eldest of four sons, who were ultimately born to him, and this 
nobleman at a later date became the first Marquis of Annandale. 
Let us now see how far the description given by Fox fits the 
character and circumstances of the Earl of Hartfell. No doubt 
Newbie is a good deal further than a quarter of a mile from 
Annan ; but it will be remembered that Fox does not say that the 
inn in which he lodged was in a town. There were, indeed, in 
former times a great many inns on the main roads. On this very 
road between Annan and Dumfries I am. informed that there 
were, so lately as fifty or sixty years ago, no fewer than twenty 
inns. That at which Fox put up was no doubt of a very humble 
kind. Further, he does not even say that the Earl’s house was a 
quarter of a mile from the road, but about a quarter of a mile 
from the inn; so that there is nothing in his description, so far as 
this note of distance is concerned, to exclude Newbie. Whether 
there are still indications on the site of the old Newbie mansion- 
house of the existence of a moat or moats, or whether any pic- 
ture of the old house (which was burned down in 1682) is in 
existence to confirm or disagree with Fox’s description of the 
three drawbridges, I have not been able to ascertain. But, as I 
have already said, the existence of such moats round the better- 
class houses in Scotland at that ‘period was quite common, and 
there is nothing unlikely in the supposition that Newbie may have 
been thus defended. As to Lord Hartfell himself, he was no 
doubt a royalist, and after the Restoration he took a pretty 
decided stand on the side of the persecutors of the Covenanters. 
But this need not lead us to suppose that he would be unfavour- 
ably disposed at this particular time to Fox and the Quakers. 
The Quakers experienced very little toleration at the hands of the 
still dominant Presbyterians, between whom and Lord Hartfell 
there was probably very little love lost, and he may have been 
interested in Fox on other grounds. Amongst the places in 
