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a small pantry. There are two other rooms on this floor at the 
back of the house entering from this landing, and probably one 
of the doors in the larger apartment of Prince Charlie’s room 
entered into the room on the left of the landing. This cannot 
now, however, be exactly determined, as a passage has been taken 
off this back room to afford an entrance to the tenement on the 
north, which is now occupied as part of the hotel. 
A party of the Highlanders also went out to Terregles, and 
seem to have been put up there. This is a fact not generally 
known, but we learn it from the minutes of the Kirk-session of 
Terregles, because in one of those semi-judicial inquiries (which 
Kirk-sessions were so fond of holding in those days) a date late 
in December is fixed as being about the time ‘‘ when the 
Highland men came first to Dumfries, and when Rodger 
M‘Donald came to the place of Terregles.” He was probably 
lodged in the house of Thomas Coverlie, at Bowhouse, who seems 
to have been a dependent of the Terregles family, as he was then 
in Edinburgh with Lady Nithsdale. However, his wife was at 
home, and no doubt did the honours of the house; and we are 
told by Susan Edgar, daughter of Samuel Edgar in Bowhouse 
(one of the witnesses before Terregles Kirk-session in the inquiry), 
that, it having been reported that this Rodger M‘Donald had 
threatened to take away her father’s horse, she and a friend went 
to Thomas Coverlie’s house between 12 and 1 o’clock on a 
Friday night (probably the 20th of December) to look in at the 
window and see if Roger M‘Donald was there. As they did not 
see him, it was evidently thought that some mischief was afoot, 
because ‘‘ after that she and others in her father’s house fled away 
to Cornlie with their horses.” Cornlie is in Irongray parish, and 
is about five miles from Bowhouse. The above, I think, shows 
that the then laird of Terregles was favourable to the Jacobite 
cause, although he did not join the forces, and it is not wonderful 
that his sympathies ran that way, for he was the son of that Harl 
of Nithsdale who was ‘out ” in the Rising of 1715, and who was 
only saved from a violent death on the scaffold for his part in 
that affair by being smuggled out of the tower in the guise of a 
serving woman by his wife Winefred, Countess of Nithsdale. 
The estate of Terregles escaped confiscation at that time, because 
it had been conveyed to his son before the Earl took part in the 
first Rising; but the title was abolished, although among his 
friends the son, William Maxwell of Nithsdale, who was the 
