Incorporated Trades of Dumfries. 421 



after upsetting in the place to take to himself a man or boy 

 for h:s service in the said four points of work. And for his 

 further encouragement do modify the composition for the box to 

 ao shilhngs sterling, which the said Charles by his acceptance of 

 h.s freedom by thir presents obliges him and his heirs and 

 executors to pay to the use of boxmaster for the time in name of 

 the rade at his convenience after his upsetting. The said 

 Charles Bowman being present personally accepted the said free- 

 dom and gave his oath of fidelity and fraternity, to maintain 

 assist, and defend the incorporation and all its members in the 

 whole immunities, and to obey the Deacon and Masters in all 

 things reasonable and customary during the time of his enjoying 

 the said freedom." ^ ^ 



There is no record of this minute having been rescinded, as 

 there is in the case of some others; but it has been scored out 

 by drawing the pen through it. It may be that the trade repented 

 of extending its privileges to a stranger; but more probably Mr 

 Bowman had reconsidered his position, and resolved not to 

 settle in Dumfries. It will be observed that his "composition " 

 was not to be paid until " after his upsetting." 



II.-KiNNELHEAD TowER. By Mr J. T. Johnstone, Moffat. 



The ruins of Kinnelhead Old Tower, which are in the im- 

 inediate proximity of the farmhouse of Kinnelhead, show it to 

 have been a large and important building in its day, but it has 

 this strange peculiarity that nothing authentic seems to be known 

 about IS history. Its name does not appear in any list of the 

 antiquities o the district, as the Statistical Account for X793 and 

 Dr Singer s Survey of Dumfries," published in 1812 Either 

 does It appear in the Buccleuch and Annandale papers published 

 by the Historical MSS. Commission. No reference is made to it 

 as a tower or residence in the Annandale Familv Book, and but 

 wo references are made to the lands of Kinnelhead 

 in the index of places in the Familv Book. The 

 first reference is that in 1568 John Johnstone of Glenkill re- 

 nounced in favour of Sir John Johnstone, Knight, the lands of 

 Armyriie, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, with the land o 

 Kinnelhead and Holmschaw, in Annandale, to be occupied bv 

 him without condition. The other reference is in r6o ' when 



