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preferred on agreeing to the terms demanded, otherwise the 

 lands would be set to the best advantage. An interesting 

 feature of the re-letting was the amount the farmer had to 

 pay as entry money. Thus, Thomas Gillespie, tenant in 

 Correferran and Capplegill, renewed his tenancy of both these 

 farms on a nine years' lease at a yearly rent of ;^i5o and ;^ioo 

 stg. of entry money for Correferran, and ;^73 rent and £120 

 entry money for Capplegill and Auld house hill to John Grei\ e, 

 ;^.2'/ rent and ;^50 entry money, " lease shortly after trans- 

 ferred to David Tweedie. " Holehouse and Gardenholm were 

 each let at ;^i7 rent and £2^ entry money, the former to 

 John Murray and the latter to James Geddes, Hugh Martine, 

 and John Dunwoody. Bughtknowes and Barns, Giddeshaw, 

 Quaecleugh, Hillhouse, and Chapel were let for one year only 

 at rents from ;^i2 for Quaecleugh to ;^40 for Hillhouse and 

 Chapel ; but all the tenants of these small farms were to be 

 allowed any damage done by quarrying, carting, or building 

 dykes at the sight of neutral men. At this time there were 

 no regular quarries for stones for building purposes, either 

 of house or dry stone dyke, the stones used for these purposes 

 being nearly all gathered from the fields or hillsides. On 

 March 30th, 1759, the Earl " signed a precept on Mr Hoggan 

 for payment of one pound four shillings sterling to be stated 

 as expenses of trials for quarries near the town of Moffat." 

 The majority of these trial quarries were all on the ground of 

 the farms mentioned. Gardenholm quarry, on the Chapel 

 farm, is in use to this day, and a number of the others are 

 still visible on the Chapel Hill. The other trial places were 

 the Common Craig and Well Hill, Moffat House and the 

 Annandale Arms being built from the Common Craig quarry. 



Bughtknowes, Barns, Giddeshaw, Quaecleugh, Hill- 

 house, and Chapel continued as separate farms till about the 

 year 1828, when they were combined as one farm, " The 

 Chapel," under the tenancy of Mr Hamilton, the father of the 

 late Mr James Hamilton, draper, Moffat. 



In February, 1759, Kinnelhead was set to Robert \\'elsh 

 in Nunnerie for nine years, at £100 yearly and ;^200 entry 

 money, " the ;^200 to be payable on the 15th June per bill 

 granted by him at this date." 



