Moffat and Upper Annandale, 



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The Marquis of Annandale, 587^ acres, valued at ;£^ioo 13 



Granton i4of 



Angus MacDonald 40 



John Black 25^ 



Thomas Moffat 23 



James Wilson 16 



Mrs Anne Graham 17^ 



David French 13I 



James Beatty 9 



James Duncan 9 



William Gillespie 7^ 



James Little 7 



James Johnstone 7 



Peter Cleland's heirs 5^ 



Mr Johnstone, writer 40^ 



Mrs Johnstone of Granton 14^ 



Peter Tod 45^ 



All these individuals who shared in the Common, with 

 the exception of the Marquis, either held their land of him or 

 were his feuars. A small strip of ground alongside the Old 

 Edinburgh Road, from Laurencefield up, was divided among 

 the owners of the smaller feus, the extent of which can be 

 judged by the size of The Hope, which was one of these 

 shares. The inhabitants of Moffat who were merely house- 

 holders had no proprietary rights of pasturage on the Com- 

 mon as such, and when the division took place the rights 

 conveyed by the amount of land rented lapsed, and I suppose 

 the ground would be just that much less value in the future. 



In the plan of division a field between the Gallow Hill and 

 the Whins and Forester's Cottage is marked, " Ground 

 alloted for a market place." This field for many years was 

 where the fair and cattle shows were held, but it was found 

 to be very inconvenient, and I was informed a good few years 

 ago by one of our then old inhabitants that everyone grumbled 

 about it, and Mr Charles Stewart, the factor, asked them — 

 " How would the Ladyknowe do?" It was then removed 

 there, and it is within my own recollection that the estate 

 workmen erected the pens there for the annual tup show and 



