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2oth March, 1708.— Paid to James Gordon the 2000 mks. Bond Mks. 



and @ i-ent thereof from Lammas, 1707 ... ... ... 2064 



To him the other Bond of 600 merks and 7 months and 20 days 

 @ rent thereof, and the Bonds and Discharges put up 

 in the Town's Charter Chest - 627 6 



At Michaelmas, 1708. — Left at my outgoing £50 str. in the 

 hands of John Killhagys, as Treasurer, which was desti- 

 nate to repair the Steeple of the Kirk 900 



Suma Totalis ... 25,993 



Nota. — The Burrow's dues on the head of the Missive and iitting the 

 Town's .lEque being £20 sterling these 4: years, inde 1460 mks. Item 

 the whole Magistrate's, Officers' ffees, and Contingencies ; But all are 

 augmented and altered. 



IV. Rece7it Antiquarian Discoveries at Kirkaidbright. By 

 Edward J. Chinnock, LL.D. (Secretary). 



I am indebted to the kindness and courtesy of our esteemed 

 member, Mr George Hamilton, for the following particulars of the 

 interesting discoveries recently made near Kirkcudbright by him- 

 self and his friends in connection with the Kirkcudbright Museum. 

 The illustration is taken from a photograph presented by Mr John 

 M'Kie, who is also an honoured member of this Society. 



On Thursday, the 10th of April, Avhile the shepherd at High 

 Banks, parish of Kirkcudbright, was driving in stobs to which to 

 hang his sheep nets, his gellock or crowbar pierced a large flat 

 stone about eighteen inches from the surftice, and disappeared 

 under the soil. On making examination he found that it had 

 gone into an open chamber, and on laying it bare he found it was 

 a place where some one had been buried. Information was sent 

 that evening to Mr M'Kie, the hon. convener of the Museum 

 Association, and next morning he, mth Mr Bell of Gribdae and Mr 

 Hamilton, the hon. secretary of the Museum Association, went to 

 the field and examined the cist. They found that it was the field 

 known as AVoodfield, on the farm of High Banks, which was in 

 turnips and being eaten off by sheep. They were joined by Mr Eigg, 

 the tenant, his son William, and the shepherd, who gave them 

 all the information regarding the discovery. 



It was a pentagonal chamber, three feet in length and two 

 feet in width, the sides being the longest and parallel, formed of 

 two slabs of slatey rock, the base one slab of the same, and the 

 apex pointing S.S.W. of two similar slabs of stone. Each slab 

 was about eighteen inches wide, and kept in their place by a 



