142 Some Incidents in Troqueer Parish. 



Traffic. 



There were also various regulations about traffic over the 

 bridge. 



25 Oct., 1697. — "The magistrates and toun counsall con- 

 sidering that the brig of this brugh is exceidinalie prejudgit 

 through suffering carts loadined and horse draughts of timber to 

 pass alongst the same They therfor and for preventing any hazard 

 that may fall out . . . discharges anie cartes loadined with 

 whatsomevir loadning to pass alongst the same " and the tacks- 

 men of the brig custom were empowered to stop all such traffic. 

 Shortly afterwards (June, 1698), the council gives orders to open 

 " a passage from the bridge up the brigend nearest the end of the 

 bridge, which was lately built up be Jon Broun of Nunland 

 . so as horse draughts, droves, and uther things may have 

 easie passage . . . the passage being at the end of Robert 

 Howat's house upon the north side of the bridge." Qn 10th 

 September, 1701, " Gavine Carlyle, merchand, for carrying cairts 

 along the bridge," was fined £10 Scots. On the 1st April, 1706, 

 " Bailie Barclay represented ane indignitie done to him by Alexr. 

 M'Goun, wryter, while he was in the exercise of his office in 

 impeding and hindering the sd Alexrs workmen to bring or draw 

 cart loads of sclate along the bridge by the said Alexr his 

 upbraiding him yrfore with many unsuteable expressions, and 

 rolling his neiff as if he would have beat him." 



The Nith. 



Troqueer was affected to some extent by the change that was 

 made in the course of the Nith. 



2nd Nov., 1703. — The Councell considering that there is a 

 point of land belonging to the toun under Gaivin Carlile's land on 

 Troqueer side of the water of Nith which occasions the course of 

 the water to incroach upon the sandbed opposite to it on this side 

 of the water, and that if the sd point were cutt The water course 

 would be in a more lineall channell, and the said sandbed (wch for 

 most part is overflown wt water, and the yeards above the same is 

 damnified by the grounds being washen away) would wtin a little 

 time grow up, and make a continued and solid walk from the 

 bridge to the dock. They do yifore think expedient to cutt the 

 said point of land. . . ." In the February following the 



