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Dovenald, Donal, or Dowall; and the epithet Galous may be 
considered as establishing a kind of connection with Galloway.” 
The two chiefs already named are supposed to have 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 Church. 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 the connection of the royal 
house of Bruce with Uchtred, shewing that 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 
Uchtred and Lincluden when the great-granddaughter of the hero 
king, the Princess Margaret, widow of Archibald Douglas Lord of 
Galloway, died, and was buried in the Abbey, the gorgeous tomb 
which received the dust of the illustrious lady still, though 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 
efligy 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 lost 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 
