Transactions. 65 
* And the said Maister Thomas Maxwell, Vicar of Dumfries, 
for certain causes, &c., resigned all his rights into the hands of 
Herbert Raining, as the deputed representative of the Superiors 
—the Provost, &ec., of the Burgh of Dumfries—in favour of and 
for a new Seisin to be granted to a noble and potent lord, 
William, Lord Hereis, and Dame Cathrine Kar, his Spouse, &c. 
In presence of Roger . . . Burgess of the said Burgh ; Hugh 
Maxwell, son of John Maxwell in Logane ; William Maxwell, 
brother of the said John; Herbert Hunter, servitor to the said 
Lord ; John Maxwell and David M‘Math, servitors to the said 
burgh, Witnesses, ce. 
“ Herbert Cunynghame, of the diocese of Glasgow, Notary 
Public, and Writer and Notary in the Burgh of Dumfries. 
*‘ Signed and confirmed by James Rig, also Notary Public.” 
There is no Writ showing in what way the Vicar himself 
became possessed of a property of this peculiar description, but 
little doubt can be entertained that it would be as part of the 
income of the Vicarage, to which he had been presented by 
James VI., lst July, 1579. 
It appears then that the Sandbed Mill adjoined the east end 
of the Old Bridge, and was connected structurally with it in 
such a way as to show that the two buildings had been erected 
contemporaneously and together ; that the Town derived their 
rights in the Mill from the King’s Charter granting them the 
possessions of the Brethren of the Greyfriars (as they did the 
Bridge dues), and a Disposition in their favour by John Maxwell 
of Gribton, to whom the property descended heritably from his 
grandfather, William, Lord Herries, who again acquired it from 
the last holder of the Vicarage of Dumfries. The Church, the 
Bridge, and the Mill are thus linked together as parts of a 
common design. The great benefactress of the district in 
the 13th century, Lady Devorgilla, founded the Greyfriars’ 
Monastery in the Town. She connected her province of 
Galloway with the Town of Dumfries by a stone Bridge of 
imposing dimensions, granting its revenues for the support of the 
Monastery. And it now appears probable that she also erected 
the Sandbed Mill at the end of the Bridge, its revenues, like the 
Bridge dues, being piously devoted to the Church. 
No description of building is more frequently mentioned in 
medieval documents than mills.  ‘ Perhaps,” says Mr Cosmo 
Innes, “one of the oldest adjuncts to a barony—one of the most 
