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his associations it may be suspected that he was a Royalist. 
In the disposition of Dalswinton, which he took to himself, 
he stipulated that the daughter who should succeed should 
be bound to marry one of the name of Maxwell. His eldest 
daughter Marion complied with this condition by marrying 
Hugh Maxwell, writer in Edinburgh, a young son of George 
Maxwell, 6th of Auldhouse (East Kilbride), Minister of 
Mearns. Hugh was a dour Presbyterian, who transmitted 
to his son George an intense dislike for the professors of the 
old religion. Hugh seems to have been a strenuous, religious, 
and litigious character, persecuted with imprisonment, fines, 
and quartering in Covenanting times, and on the other hand, 
taking the law upon his relations, including his own second 
daughter, Rachel, ‘‘ because she took some wabs of plaiding 
out of her own kist, whereof she had the keys.”’ 
George, who followed him in 1704, commemorated his 
marriage on a stone which may be seen built into the wall 
at the Back Lodge entrance. It bears the initialsk—G. M.-—- 
J]. C.—and the date, 1710. There also exists a bell with their 
names in full and the same date, 1710. Nevertheless it was 
in 1700 that he married Jane Campbell, daughter of Lord 
Neil Campbell, second son of Archibald, Marquis of Argyll. 
great Marquis,’’ who 
sé 
She was thus grand-daughter of the 
suffered in 1661. During George’s time and his father’s the 
peatmoss lying east of the Shaws burn, on Shaws and Penny- 
land, was the scene of conflicts of a dangerous nature between 
the tenants of Dalswinton and Duncow. This strife finally 
ended in litigation about 1743, after which the proprietor was 
allowed to build a march dyke in peace. This indicates 
roughly the date at which ‘‘ enclosing*’’ began in the parish. 
The boundary from Birsy’s Grave to Quarrelwood was then 
laid down, but for long there was little love lost between Dal- 
swinton and Duncow. 
The last of the Maxwells, Major William, unfortunately 
took a £500 share in the ill-fated Ayr Bank, which had a 
branch at Dumfries. There was no limited liability then, and 
a more fortunate banker, Patrick Miller, came on the field 
with the ‘‘ many-pounders of the bank,’’ and became laird in 
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