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him to restore the property of " Dungal abbas de sacro nemore " 

 (Rymer, ii., p. 72). In May, 1365, David II. granted a protec- 

 tion and certain privileges to the abbot and convent " de sacro 

 nemore" {Regis. Mag Sig. 128). In the reign of Robert I., his 

 brother. Lord of Galloway, founded at the Abbey of Holywood 

 an hospital and a chapel, which he endowed with some lands in 

 Galloway. This liospital having been ruined during the war of _ 



succession was restored in 1372 by Archibald Douglas, Lord of ■ 



Galloway, who again endowed it with the lands of Crossmichael J 



and Troqueer, in Galloway. This second endowment was sanc- 

 tioned by Walter, Bishop of Glasgow, and confirmed by Robert II. 

 on the 2d June, 1372 {Reg. Mag. Sig., ii., 56). 



The Abbey stood within the present churchyard till 1779, when 

 its remains were pulled down and appropriated to the building of 

 the present church. An engraving of the Abbey is given in 

 Cardonnel's Antiquities of Scotland. Two bells originally belong- 

 ing to the Abbey are still in use. One bears an inscription 

 partly illegible, which is generally understood to mean that the 

 bell was consecrated by an abbot, John Wrich, in the year 1154. 

 I am inclined to think there is some error here. The copy of the 

 inscription given in Riddell's MS. (vol. vii., p. 211) seems to 



read — i. wrich abbas sack. nme. fieri fecit ad. q 



viGEN. Query— Can the date be 1520? Riddel says— " The 

 Chartulary of the Abbey [of Holywood] was carried by some of 

 the monks to France, and I am told is either to be seen in the 

 Scott's Colledge at Paris or at the OoUedge of Dowey in France " 

 (MS. vol. vii., p.. 209). Could we refer to this cartulary we 

 should in all probability have little difficulty in determining the 

 date of the bell. 



The monks of Holywood possessed many lands in Nithsdale 

 and East Galloway, and had jurisdiction over the wliole. Tiie 

 powerful family of Maxwell acquired the office of baillie to the 

 abbot, whom they protected, and they obtained the six-merk 

 lands of Baltersan, with the three-merk lauds of Gleneslan, as a 

 fee for executing this office, which continued hereditary till the 

 abolition of such jurisdictions in 1748 {Inquisit Speciales, 25, 102, 

 266, 346, 380). In 1544 the rental of the monastery amounted 

 to £700 Scots money, 19 chalders, 14 bolls, and 3 fiiiots of meal, 

 9 bolls and 3 firlots of bear, and one chalder of malt. By the 

 plunder of the Reformation it was reduced to ^£425, and still more 



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