324 How Annan Built a Bridge. 



Gulielmi Marchionis de Annandaill and Consulis, Matthiee Partis 

 ■of Tallentyre, Joannis Johnston de Galabanks, Joannis Irving de 

 Gulielands et Magistri Joannes Woosly Bailivorum, Gulielmi 

 Hair decani Gildje, Jacobi Brydon Thesaurary et 

 caeterorum Concily dicti burghi. Quo Die Jounis Whyte 

 servitor Tobio Bachup in Alloway fabro murario admissus et 

 Receptus fuit in municipen et fractrem Gildce dicti burgi propter 

 singularem favorem et Benevolentiam quibus dicti magistratus 

 ilium amplectuntur pra^stito per eundem Juramento S.D.N. 

 Regi et dicto burgo solito. Extractum de liberis concily Dicti 

 burgi per me scribam ejusdem subscribentem. "Geo. Blaire." 



The Provost had been advanced to the dignity of Marquis, 

 as the ticket bears, and in the records he is styled " High and 

 mighty prince, William Marquis of Annandale," etc. 



The Burgh Court books are much occupied with the registra- 

 tion of claims against the estate of Partis and Woosley. Great 

 delay takes place in arriving at a settlement, notwithstanding 

 frequent protestations that the tobaccos are in danger of perish- 

 ing, being stored in bad cellars ; but after the lapse of more than 

 a year, at the end of 1702, an arrangement is come to. John 

 Hallyburton, advocate, probably a descendant of the early Edin- 

 burgh banker of that name, and Clement Nicholson and Isaac 

 Tallowfield, Englishmen, are authorised to roup the tobaccos 

 lying at Annan in several cellars and in the manse and buildings 

 belonging thereto, they undertaking to make payment to other 

 creditors — to William Graham of Mossknowe, collector of 

 customs, the sum of ;!^4o, he to give discharge in full of all 

 claims from the beginning of the world to this day ; to John 

 Irving, surveyor, _;^i4o; and to Bailie John Irving, ;^ioo worth 

 of tobacco to satisfy himself and several others. It does not 

 appear that anything was found to be owing to the bridge fund. 



Money was scarce, and several times, contrary to use and 

 wont, the customs, at the instance of the Marquis of Annandale, 

 who, it is noted, has right by contract thereto, were rouped for 

 ready money, 3d November, 1702: — "The bailies and Council, 

 taking into consideration the matter of the bridge, and finding 

 that since the first day of June last the whole workmen are yet 

 unpaid to this day, except only what has been advanced to them 

 by William Whyte out of the vacant stipend of Annan for meal 

 towards their maintenance this summer, and now winter ap- 

 proaching and several of the said workmen being to go to their 

 several habitations, and that the Marquis of Annandale, his 

 chamberlain, refuses to clear and pay up what is resting to the 

 said workmen, pretending he has no order and warrant so to do, 

 Therefore Mr William Johnstone, commissioner to Parliament, is 

 to apply to the Marchionness of Annandale in my Lord's ab- 

 sence to grant order to pay the workmen for this summer's work, 

 and also for keeping together as many workmen as may be need- 



