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beyheid [Duncansby Head] in Caithnes, comprehending thairin the 

 coast of Bamf and Murrey upon the south side, Murrey firth and the 

 coast of Kosse, Sutherland and ane part of Caithnes vpon the north, 

 and fourtene myles without the course frome the said Buchannesse to 

 the said Dungisbiehead, and frome the same Dungsbie in Caithnes 

 west alongs the coast of Caithnes and Strathnauer to Farrayheid in 

 Stranauer [Cape Wrath], and fourteine myles aff the said coast, with 

 fourtene myles round about the yles of Orkney and Yetland. Frome 

 the Farrayheid alongs the coast of Stranauer to the head of Stoir of 

 Assint [Stoir Head] and 14 myles aff the said coast, and frome the 

 said heid of Stoir Assint directlie west north-west to the eastmost 

 point of the yle of the Lewes, comprehending thairin the haill seas 

 interjected betuixt the said heid of Stoir of Assint and eastmost point 

 of the said yle of the Lewes, with all the yles and loches within the 

 same, and 14 myles without the course frome the said heid of the 

 Stoir of Assint to the said east point of the Lewes ; frome the said 

 eastmost point of the Lewes south about the haill yles of the Lewes 

 to the westmost part of Barra, and 1 4 myles without the samine ; 

 frome the said westmost part of Barra n-west, south, south-east to 

 southmost part of the yle of Yla [Islay], frome the said southmost 

 part of yla south-east to the mull of Kintyre, frome the said mull of 

 Kintyre n-west, south-east, to the mull of Gallouay : Whiche bounds 

 frome the said heid of Stoir Assint west north-west to the eastmost 

 point of the Lewes and frome thence south to Bara be Yla, and mull 

 of Kintyre to the mull of Gallouay, comprehends the haill west yles 

 and loches within the samine with the loches vpon the mayne of 

 Stranauer, Tarbet, Lochaber, Kintyre, Argyle, Renfrew, Cuninghame, 

 Kyle, Carrick, Gallouay, Quhithorne ; alongs the coast of Gallouay 

 eastward to Solloway [Solway] sands and 14 myles aff the said coast. 

 Quhilk bounds above designed being so necessar both for the haill 

 lieges living vpon the saids coasts and yles, as if these sould be ex- 

 hausted be strangers of fishes, they sould be depryved of all benefite 

 of living and so be tyme bring ane vtter desolatioun vpon the land, 

 as lykeways so necessar for ws of the borrowes [burghs] as without 

 the said fishing the most part of our inhabitants sould be brought to 

 extreem miserie. Quhairfoir we of the burrowes doe humbelie beseeke 

 your Lordships to recommend the bounds abone designed to the saids 

 commissioners in suche maner as they give not way that strangers be 

 permitted to fishe within the saids bounds vpon anie conditioune." l 



1 Ada Part. Scot., v. 235. Rec. Conv. Roy. Burghs, iv. 526. State Papers, 

 Lorn., clxxxviii. 72. In the record of the burghs the distance from the shore on 

 the east coast, at the Orkneys and Shetlands, and on the north coast, is given as 

 forty miles ; but as the original records of the Convention between 1631 and 1649 

 were lost, and that printed is from an abstract prepared in 1700, it appears that an 

 error was made in the transcribing. 



