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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” (fegis. 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 hospital 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 
and Troqueer, in Galloway. This second endowment was sanc- 
tioned by Walter, Bishop of Glasgow, and confirmed by Robert IT. 
on the 2d June, 1372 (Reg. Mag. Siz., 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 SACR. 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 Colledge 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 whole. The 
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 lands of Gleneslan, as a 
fee for executing this office, which continued hereditary till the 
abolition of such jurisdictions in 1748 (Inqwisit Speciales, 25, 102, 
266, 346, 380). In 1544 the rental of the monastery amounted | 
to £700 Scots money, 19 chalders, 14 bolls, and 3 firlots 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. ; 
