176 Dumfries : Its Burghal Origin. 



corollary of the royal castle, the home of a non-Celtic in- 

 trusive population, increasingly deserves to stand forth as it 

 has never hitherto been made to stand — an instructive type 

 of feudal history. Here, as at Stirling, it could be said that 

 on one side of the river were the advancing possibilities of 

 Anglo-Norman immigration ; on the other lingered the 

 receding Celt. The native is confronted by the foreigner, 

 and is, despite his unwillingness, being thrust back. As on 

 the Severn, so on the Nith, the Clyde, the Forth, and the 

 Spey. It is a long chapter, and part of it tells why and how 

 on these frontiers the royal burghs were built. 



13th March, 1914. 



The Protocol Book (1541=1550) of Herbert Anderson, 

 Notary in Dumfries. 



Abstracted by Sir Philip J. Hamilton-Grierson. 



IXTRODUCTION. 



At the suggestion of Mr Shirley, our Secretary, I under- 

 took the task of writing abstracts of the protocols contained 

 in the book of Herbert Anderson, Notary, Dumfries. What 

 I have done owes much of any value it may have to Mr 

 Shirley's assistance and criticism. His intimate acquaintance 

 with Anderson's handwriting, and with the names of the 

 people and places mentioned, enabled him to set me right on 

 many occasions when I had stumbled ; and his suggestions in 

 dealing with words and contractions hard to decipher have 

 been of the greatest value. That portion of this introduction 

 which is concerned with matters of topography is his work 

 alone. 



Practically nothing is known of Herbert Anderson's per- 

 sonality. We learn from an entry in the Burgh Court Books, 

 dated loth August, 1562, that Janet M'Morine, relict of 

 umquhile John Anderson of Terrachtrye, with the consent of 

 her brother William M'Morine of Glaspane, entered into a 

 contract with her son Herbert, in which she renounces in his 

 favour all her rights in his feu-lands of Terrautti, in consider?^- 



