--il Sanquhar Burgh Cross. 



publish and leave a copy of the same at Sanquhar by a part of 

 our number having the consent of the whole to do so." 



The citizens, however, did not take any heed of the warning, 

 but pursued their own way much to the disgust of the stricter 

 Cameronians, who appear to have been ready to go any length to 

 prevent the Union being carried out. The CamerOnians, 

 strangely enough, never appear to have been very numeirous about 

 Sanquhar, although their chief declarations were made there. 



The next scene at the old Cross of which an account has 

 been preserved to our time took place in 1760, when the new 

 monarch, George III., was proclaimed. Doubtless other 

 monarchs had their accessions to the throne declared at the same 

 spot, but George III.'s is the first which is recorded. The record 

 is not in the minutes of the Council but in the account book, but 

 it gives us sufficient to see of what sort the ceremonv was. The 

 account is as follows : — 



Accompt of the Expense of the 



Proclamation of His Majesty King George the third, the 4th 



November, 1760. 



s. D. 

 To two pints of spirits and a bottle of wine made into 



punch which was drunk at the Cross 

 To a pint of whisky to the trades who fired at the Cross... 

 To one pound of powder ... 



To carting a load of coals and for ringing the bell 

 To a lad for beating the drum 



To the expenses of the man who brought up the Procla- 

 mation ... 

 To James Kellock on that occasion 



18 10 



From this we see that the older citizens made much more of 

 the proclaiming of a king than their present-day descendants. 



In 1901 on the 29th of January King Edward was pro- 

 claimed at the same spot. The Magistrates and Town Council 

 met in the Council-House, and, preceded by the Volunteer band, 

 marched to the Cross, where the proclamation was made, it being 

 noticed that, although the Provost, Mr Waugh, had a written 

 copy of the proclamation in his hand, he read it off a news- 

 paper rutting. The day of the ceremony was wild and blusterous 



