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lasted a stream of warlike stores flowed through the town* for 
the army, and for the garrisons in Lochmaben, Dumfries, and 
Carlaverock. 
XI. Rental under the English (1303). 
The English occupancy of Annandale had begun. A rent roll} 
for the half-year ending at Whitsunday, 1303, shows that the 
otficers of Edward I. received from 
Dumfries Ais Bi se ae Lie 10) 0 
Lochmaben _... i ae a NG Wp 2@ 
Annan ... ais 1M) ie sam aso, (0) 8) 
The Mill at Annan a OMS, 
———— 613 4 
Hightae ohh “e ee a Oth @ 
Smallholm Ne Ue Bee a0 On hee @ 
Ecclefechan ... ie ae ies Oem 
Moffat ... a ON 37086 
The high proportion which Lochmaben bears in this rental is 
to be explained by its being the headquarters of the English 
force. Its lands could be better guarded, and its rental was a 
less uncertain quantity than that of other places. Besides, 
Annan as we have seen had been burnt five years before, and it is 
easy to understand that there was something more than empty 
rhetoric in the old-Greyfriar’s statement a few years later that 
Annan had ‘lost the honour of a burgh.” Annan in the first half of 
the 14th century was but a wreck of its former self. The flames 
of Clifford’s raid had robbed it both of honour and opulence, its 
progress was blasted by the prevailing atmosphere of danger, and its 
fall from at least the hope of greatness was due, not indeed to 
the curse of St. Malachi, but to one still greater—the ambition of 
Edward I. 
XII. The Borders after Bannockburn (1317). 
No record exists of Annan’s share in the stirring events which 
followed the year 1306 when Robert the Bruce stabbed Comyn,and 
finally stood out as the champion of independence. But one cannot 
doubt that from the heart of his own territory of Annandale he 
had sturdy help, and that Annan had its part in Bannockburn. 
After that battle, the sufferings of the Border on both sides were 
terrible. Although, thanks to the activity of the Scottish soldier- 
*Tbid., 127. 
+Bain’s Cal., ii., 1608 (p. 426.) 
