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The Greyfriars' Convent of Dumfries. 



had dispersed the subjects. It will be observed that Lord 

 Maxwell had acquired the Kirkstead, while Amer Fergus.son 

 possessed the Cloister. 



Lord Maxwell's castle was "cast down '' by Lord Scroope 

 at the instance of Queen Elizabeth in 1570, and the Friary, being 

 then Lord Maxwell's property, probably suffered the same fate; 

 the town also was burned. Shortly afterwards the Castle was 

 rebuilt, and the Friary having passed into the possession of Lord 

 Maxwell and become a ruin, the materials would naturally be 

 appropriated to the erection of the new Castle, which in turn 

 through the troubles of the times, having become waste, the mate- 

 rials Avere again made use of in the erection of the New Church, 

 hence the preservation of the stones characteristic of ecclesiastical 

 work before referred to. 



Fragment of Sedilia. 



Vousoir of Arch. 



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Door or Window Scuntions. 



