308 Greyfriars' Convent of Dumfries. 



Frier Port and cawssa making for resawing of of Souerane 

 Lady in July and August. "^ 



Before leaving the subject of the bridge one may be par- 

 doned for introducing the two following entries, which appear 

 to fix the date of the erection of the Sandbed Mill : — 



28th May, 1522. — " The samyn day the alderman bailzeas 

 and communite of Drumfress haiss set to thom cunygham in 

 heretage ane mylsted wyt wattirgang descendand frae the moit 

 to the barnis butts^ of the Sandbeddis payand therfore yeirlie 

 xxti s of annuell rent and geif the myll sted dois ony skayt 

 eder to the sandbedds or to the willis the said myll salbe 

 destroyit and dischargit and at the samin will discend to the 

 said thomas ayres and assignais." 



4th July, 1526. — " The samyn day It is wardit be the 

 console and commonte of the burghe of [Drumfress] befor 

 the alderman and bailies of the samin that thomas cunygham 

 burges [of the said] burghe sail half the common sele of the 

 said burgh aflfixt to [the charter] of ffew of the walkmyll sted 

 and wattergang of the samin in form as it was grantit him 

 of efter the tenor of ane act maid of before and that alss sone 

 vs be begynnis to mak cost and reperatioun tharvpon." 



On Mr Barbour's plan the land occupied by houses on 

 the north side of Friars' Vennel, or the Newton, from St. 

 David Street downwards, is shown as not belonging to the 

 Friars. The tenements upon it were not erected, we know, 

 until after the departure of the English in 1549,^ and Mr 

 Bryce comments : — " It is now impossible to offer any satis- 

 factory explanation why this narrow strip of land, so long 

 unoccupied, did not pass into the possession of the Friars 

 along with the Frierhauch, of which it was the southern 

 boundary." From the extracts now before us I think we are 

 able to say that this portion of ground had actually formed 

 a portion of the Frierhauch, and was feued out by the Friars 

 themselves from 1557 onwards. 



There are records of titles to " ane tenement lyand in 

 the newton betuix a tenement of wmquhile riche mcKinnellis 

 on the west part and the freyr wall on the est part," which 

 seems to be " Richert Maxwell's sometyme land newlie Jon 



