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25th March, 1708.—Paid to James Gordon the 2000 mks. Bond Mks. 
and @ rent thereof from Lammas, 1707 i: .. 2064 0 0 
To him the other Bond of 600 merks and 7 months auc 20 days 
@ rent thereof, and the Bonds and Discharges ay up 
in the Town’s Charter Chest... br . 627 6 0 
At Michaelmas, 1708.—Left at my anteoniye £50 on in fie 
hands of John Killhagys, as Treasurer, which was desti- 
nate to repair the Steeple of the Kirk Ax Zh an 90090 40 
Suma Totalis ... 25,993 0 0 
Nota.—The Burrow’s dues on the head of the Missive and fitting the 
Town’s Aique 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. Recent Antiquarian Discoveries at Kirkcudbright. By 
Epwarp J. Cuinnock, 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, while 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 surface, 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, with 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 Woodfield, on the farm of High Banks, which was in 
turnips and being eaten off by sheep. They were joined by Mr Rigg, 
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 
