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give his advice and counsel to the burgh when required. The 

 treasurer was ordained to uplift the custom of that year as from 

 the Earl of Annandale. 



The Revolution. 

 26th February, 1689. — Bryce Blair chosen commissioner to 

 attend convention of estates appointed to be held at Edinburgh 

 14th March next in obedience to the Prince of Orange proclama- 

 tion, to have for his pains two pounds sixteen shillings Scots 

 each day during the sitting of said convention. 



The Dominie and the Termagant. 



25th October, 1685. — Walter Miller, schoolmaster, in 

 Annan, was decerned in ten pounds Scots for striking Marioune 

 Robsone, and the said Marioune Robsone decerned in the like 

 sum of ten pounds for riving of the said Walter Miller's hair. 



Contempt of Court. 



19th October, 1689. — John Davidson, in Seafield, was fined 

 in twenty pounds Scots money for saying in face of the court that 

 the magistrates had not given fair law and that it was like the 

 Abay court wherein there was no law. 



Guarding the Crops and the Fish. 



8th August, 1693. — Enacted that no man or woman be seen 

 among stooks after daylight is past nightly until harvest be 

 done. Enacted that no man or woman shall fish out of their 

 neighbour's nets. 



A Woman Leech — Assaults and Batteries. 



2nd January, 1694. — Treasurer ordained to pay Sibbild 

 Johnstone, relict of the deceased John Lynding, los sterling, and 

 that for curing of five wounds on Robert Johnstone's head, he 

 being wounded by James Lyntone and his sons when the said 

 Robert was employed in the town's business. The which dav 

 the persons under-named were decerned to make payment to the 

 procurator-fiscal of the court and the fines after specified for the 

 bloods (assaults to effusion of blood) and batteries (common 

 assaults) committed by them, viz. : Robt. Johnstone, son to the 

 deceased David Johnstone, late bailie of Annan, of the sum of 



