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is to have liberty to dig and win stones for the said work out of 
the Town’s quarries not already opened. His needful travelling 
expenses during seven years’ upholding to be satisfied by the 
Town. 
Some of the entries in the Town’s accounts further indicate the 
quality of the buildings, and also serve to illustrate the current 
rate of wages at the time :— 
Novr. 1706. 
Payd for 18 burdings of whins (for Caul) at 8d ye burden £012 0 
Alexr. Glen for 8 draughts of stones for the Call se LIZ IAG 
John Anderson for 7 draughts... ; : ps lt 38 etO 
John Neilson for 7 draughts = su ae ones tee lw(!) 
Gawaine Carlile for 7 draughts wd te Pe Lo) TSO 
Novr. 20. 
Arther Grahme for 34 days at the New gee Py, it 
Ewert’s order, at 7s per day ... 4 6 
William Car 4 days at the New Dam 1 8 0 
John Duf 3 days 1 0 
John Neilson and J ohn Anderson for 2 cair irts from Car- 
laverock with wood for a wheel : . 4 0 0 
To Bailey Ewart, ke paid for timber for a wheel 5.0) 0 
To Bailey Cor bet given Wm. Mean in earnest when they 
agreed for bigging of a kill O14 6 
Nov. 27. 
For 5 Threeves & 4 of Thak to ye Mill, be lent Barkles 
order 016 0 
To a Theaker for putin on the Thak of ditto... Oe eG 
Feby. 25, 1707. 
Hew addeck and John Turnor for casting and leading 
ye turffs and rigging the New Miln, per Coun: order 12 0 0 
March 1. 
Thomas Macjore for whins pepene to ye Town’s Caul 
by him, &c. af 2 a 28 10 
" All Scots. money. 
Altogether the picture presented of this Mill, with its walls 
built of rough stones, which had been dug out of the site of the 
existing Kilns, and its thatched roof ridged with turf, exhibit 
Frew’s “model” as an unambitious one; and the Caul made of 
wood must have served its purpose very imperfectly if we are to 
judge by the quantities of whins and stones with which it had to 
be supplemented. 
The progress of the work undertaken by Frew was interrupted 
by a law plea. Shortly after its commencement, the proprietors 
of the upper fishings opposed the construction of the Caul, by 
presenting a bill of suspension in the Court of Session. The case 
was ultimately decided in the Town’s favour, and the mill was 
completed in 1707, when it was let to a tenant, along with 
another water-mill belonging to the Town, situated in the Mill- 
hole. 
