138 Some Incidents in Troqueer Parish. 



18th Marchy 1910. 



Chairman — Provost Nicholson, Maxwelltown. 



The Society expressed sympathy with the relatives of Mr 

 James Bell, Schoolmaster, Parton, a member of the Society, who 

 died on the 7th of March. 



The Photographic Section exhibited a large collection of 

 photographs, being the Portfolio of the Scottish Federation. 



Some Incidents in Troqueer Parish, 1690-1710. By Mr G. 

 W. Shirley, Librarian, Ewart Public Library, Dumfries. 



The Brigend. 



The population of Troqueer parish in 1755 is given as 1391.^ 

 It would be a little less during the period now dealt with. About 

 400 persons would reside in the Brigend, the most populous portion 

 of the parish. These included many burgesses and tradesmen of 

 Dumfries. No disability existed from residence outside the burgh 

 bounds, and so we have councillors and bailies of Dumfries as 

 well as conveners and deacons of craft described as " in Brigend." 

 There was also another class of considerable number, which is 

 the subject of the following act of the Kirk-session: — "5 June, 

 1715, — The Session taking into consideration that several persons 

 under a bad fama who are thrust out of other places, particularly 

 the town of Drumfries, and have taken to the one in the Brigend, 

 do hereby appoint that the minister and elders go through the 

 Brigend, upon Thursday next in the afternoon, and take up a list 

 of all these persons who are under a bad fama, or have been 

 thrust out of other congregations for their misdemeanours, or 

 want of certificates of their Christian, sober, and honest occupa- 

 tion from the places where they resided ; and that they give in this 

 list of John Brown of Nunland, Baylie of the Regality, craving and 

 desiring that he may remove such vagrant and scandalous persons, 

 and exterminate them from the Regality as he shall find cause ; 

 that so the Brigend of Dumfries and the Regality may not be a 

 common receptacle of vagrant and scandalous persons." 



1. Old Statistical Account, v. 20, p. 609. 



