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of forty shillings a year. Arrangements were made at the same 
time, specifying the conditions of payment, and it was expressly 
acknowledged that the rectors were ecclesiastically subject to the 
bishop. The adjustment so effected was long the actual basis of 
things, and was the subject of repeated ratifications.* In 1273, 
the Bishop of Glasgow transferredt his rights to the dean and 
chapter of his diocese. In 1275 the rectory was returned} in: 
Bagimond’s roll as worth £4 a year. Robert de Brus, the Com- 
petitor, manifested the family’s hereditary generosity by a gift§ to 
the canons of a meadow near the grange or barn in the fields 
of the vill of Annan—zn campis ville de Anandia: a phrase 
plainly suggestive of a community with considerable common 
fields—towards the south, of which meadow for a time the 
canons by their procurator had been his tenants, at a rent of 
two shillings a year. With the confirmation|| of this grant by 
his son Robert, father of King Robert, the charters of the 
Annandale family of Brus to Guisborough appear to terminate, 
although it is impossible to avoid thinking that after the accession 
of King Robert the ancestral connexion of the dynasty with the 
monastery may have preserved] to the latter its Annandale 
possessions, longer than usual in similar cases, from the wrench 
caused by the war of independence. 
V. Progress and Status (1296). 
As the 13th century drew to a close, Annan’s days of peace 
were rapidly running out. It will be well to consider the status 
of the town in the height of the long prosperity which inter- 
national warfare was so soon to blast. The mention of Annan as 
a city was dismissed with a smile. The chronicler cannot have 
used the word in any technical sense. That he employed it 
to denote a considerable community is, however, an essentially 
reasonable, and indeed necessary, proposition. The facts already 
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given, the castle or hall, the supposed mint, the varied indica- 
*In 1265, 1273, 1300, and 1330. Guisb. Chart., ii. 1188. 
+Reg. Glasg., i., p. 186. 
+Reg. Glas., i., pref. lxv. 
SGuisb. Chart., u., 1181. 
\|Guisb. Chart., ii., 1180. 
{This is strongly suggested by the confirmation of 1330 above referred to. 
