Tiutiiaactions. 1 1 



Dovenald, Donal, or Dowall ; and the epitliet Galous may be 

 considered as establisliing a kind of connection witli Galloway." 

 The two chiefs already named are supposed to \\a,\e been descend- 

 ants of Galous; and it was they who fought and fell in the Battle 

 of the Standard, while leading the Galloway contingent of the 

 Scottish army. They were succeeded in the lordship of the 

 province by Fergus, who is best remembered as the pious founder 

 of the Monasteries of Tongland, Whithorn, and Soulseat, the 

 Priory of St. Mary's Isle, and the Abbey of Dundrennan. He 

 died at Holyrood Abbey in 1161, first, however, appointing his 

 two sons, Uchtred and Gilbert, his successors. His chief resi- 

 dence was the Castle of Loch Fergus, built on a rocky islet that 

 rose out of a lake near Kirkcudbright, long since drained away. 

 Uchtred, walking in the footsteps of his peace-loving and pious 

 father, dedicated a considerable amount of his worldly substance 

 to the Cliurch. Hence in due season arose the fair Abbey with 

 which his name is associated, and "the grey ruins of which 

 still held to keep his memory green." Gilbert, a man of quite 

 another stamp, wishing to acquire the entire lordship of the 

 province, murdered his brother Uchtred in 1174, at Loch Fergus 

 Castle, under circumstances of the most revolting cruelty. Mr 

 M'Dowall described at some length tlie connection of the royal 

 house of Bruce with Uchtred, sliewing tliat the Bruce of Bannock- 

 burn was a lineal descendant of the Lords of Galloway, he being 

 the great-grandson of Gilbert, the fratricide. After noticing 

 Alan Lord of Galloway, his daughter Devorgilla, and many more 

 of Uchtred's relatives, including our present Queen, Mr M'Dowall 

 stated that the connection of the Bruce family was renewed with 

 Uclitred and Lincluden when the great-granddaughter of tiie hero 

 king, the Princess Margaret, widow of Archibald Douglas Lord of 

 Galloway, died, and was buried in the Abbey, tlie gorgeous tomb 

 which received the dust of the illustrious lady still, thougli sadly 

 marred, revealing striking traces of its original beauty. There 

 the remains of the Princess were laid, an inscription on the walls 

 above setting forth her name and titles ; and a full length stone 

 effigy laid over the sepulchre, portraying the lineaments of her 

 who slept below. Quite recently during the work of excavation 

 carried on at the Abbey, the figure of the Princess, in a mutilated 

 condition, was discovered, after it had been lo.st for nearly a 

 century. This was a rare prize ; and the writer was not without 

 the hope of seeing the figure restored, and placed anew in its 



