140 Some Incidents in Troqueer Parish. 



This incident was not, liowever, the first of a market at the 

 Brigend as the following entries show. It is possible that the 

 first of these may refer to the Dumfries market, but the second 

 certainly describes that at the Brigend and dates it a century 

 before Lord Maxwell's effort to create a formidable competitor 

 to Dumfries. 



6 November, 1549. — Item it [is] statute and ordanit be the 

 nobill and potent Sir John Maxwell of Terreglis Knicht and 

 vardane of all the ve.st merches of Scotland for anents England 

 that na coipparer [dealer] nor forstallar by nor errek [ ?] ony 

 queik gudds nolt or sheip to dryif hawe awaye ony queik guds 

 wtin the merkate daye nor repair therto qll monenday nor vnder 

 the paine of escheitting of the guds bocht befoir the said hors, 

 etc. And punesching of his bodye that the samin [does]. And 

 to that effek hais deput ells Cunynghame to vse the saine [fine] 

 the ta half to hym self and the tother half to the tones vse.* 



27th April, 1577. — " David Andersoun in Terragles toun 

 in the p[rese]ns of Robert M'Kynnell Bailie Suorne and admittit 

 ane man of fifty zeris or therby and of gud fame producit in 

 the causs persawit be cuthbert hereys agains patrik merting for 

 the vrangus wtholding fra him of the .sowme of vij niks vsuall 

 money of the rist of the price of certaine guds coft and resauit 

 fra the said cuthbert as Is contein in his act of challance deponis 

 that he knawes nothing in the said causs Bot he sawe the said 

 cuthbert hafe twa kye to sell in the nolt stand of brigend about 

 mertingmes last was, and the said David bad ten mks for ane of 

 the said kye quhilk was blak hawkit and therefter he sawe pate 

 merting and John morrisoun dry\e the samyn alang the brig of 

 Drumfres to the toun bot he kennis nethyr the price nor day of 

 pax'ment nor knawis nocht quhilk of thame coft the said kye."* 



The nolt market gave its name to the land on which it was 

 held. In 1702 it is described as "bounded betwixt the loaning 

 and passage from the Bridge-end to Cairgenbridge on the east 

 and north, the lands called Baxter's close pertaining to John 

 Brown of Nunland on the west and the lands of Thomas Avair, 

 merchant, on the south."! In 1754 it is described as " the four 

 acres of land called the nolt mercat with the houses and yeards 



* Burgh Court Books of Dumfries. 



t Dumfries Register of Sasine.s, 13, II., 1702. 



