HALLDYKES AND THE HERRIES FAMILY. 121 
Isabella, daughter of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, 
(3rd) Bart. She died the 47th October, 1777, at the age of 47. 
He was succeeded in the possession of Halldykes by his 
son Robert, who, though born there the 31st October, 1767,'4 
never lived at the place in later life. He was for some time 
the head of the bank in St. James’s Street, but retired from 
business in 1815. He died at his house of Glenlyn, at Lyn- 
mouth, North Devon, the 27th October, 1845. He never 
married, and by selling the Halldykes property in portions 
from 1801 to 1803 had ended the family connection with that 
place, though not with Dumfriesshire, for his cousin, Sir 
Robert Herries (see Footnote 10), had inherited in 1800 a 
place called Greskin, in the parish of Moffat, from a distant 
kinsman, Michael Herries of Spottes. On Sir Robert’s death 
Greskin passed to his nephew, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, 
who sold it about 1850. 
A “‘rentall’’ of the Halldykes estate, signed like the in- 
ventory above mentioned by Mr Goldie, gives the names of 
the farms and their tenants in 1751 as follows :—The Mains 
of Halldykes, Christopher Armstrong ; the Byresteads, James 
Henderson ; the Buss, William Muir ; the Fulldoors and Rough 
Park, John Johnston; the Miln Mailing, Thomas Mundal; 
Catchhall and Parkhouse, John Mundal; Sloda Hill, Andrew 
and Hendlay Chalmers; and the Upper Mains, John Johnston 
and Thomas Mathison. The total yearly rental was £120 
tos 8d, paid mostly in cash but partly in ‘‘ kain’’ fowls and 
work done for the landlord. The rent of the Byresteads, for 
instance, was 411 and the teind £1, and to this sum of £12 
was added igs 2d, the value of eight kain fowls, priced at 4d 
each, and of so many days of carting of peat and turf and 
leading of corn and hay and so on. On some of the farms 
this ‘‘ work money ”’ had been commuted for cash payments, 
but kain fowls were due from all. These figures suggest that 
14 His father’s accounts show that on lst November, 1767, he 
paid 2s for an ‘‘ Express to Closeburn to announce the birth of my 
son,’’ and £2 2s to the midwife. In October, 1770, he paid £2 2s 
to ‘‘Dr Clapperton for inoculating my son,’’ and £3 3s ‘‘and a 
watch ’’ to ‘‘ Mr Yorstoun, surgeon, for attending him.”’ 
