Earty ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF DUNSCORE. 39 
was celebrated at the parish church of Dunscore in presence 
of many nobles and honourable persons of both sexes and 
of very many of the common people by Master John Herde, 
rector of the parish church of Kirkpatrick, at the request of 
the curate (curatus) of the said church of Dunscore. Master 
John, invested in his priestly robe, and accompanied by 
certain churchmen, came down from the high altar to the 
doors of the church; and on his asking whether the banns 
had been duly called, the said Gilbert Grerson answered 
that he was a parishioner of the church of Troqueer, and 
produced the certificate of banns under the seal of Patrick, 
perpetual vicar of Troqueer. And this having been read 
aloud to the assembled people by the said Sir John, a similar 
certificate under the seal of Sir John of ffarle, rector of 
the church of Sanquhar, was produced on behalf of the said 
Isabella, parishioner there, and read aloud as in the former 
case. And Sir John adjured those present, once, twice, and 
thrice, if any of them knew any just cause why this marriage 
should not be celebrated, to speak under pain of excommu- 
nication. And Sir John, after an interval and no objection 
having been stated, asked the parties themselves who were 
sworn upon the sacred host and the gospels that if they 
knew of any just impediment to their marriage, they should 
state it openly. And on their declaring that there was none 
the said Sir John joined them in holy matrimony. The 
witnesses to the document were Sir William of Douglas, 
lord of Ecfurd; William, abbot of Holywood; the Lady 
Isabella Stewart, lady of Torthorwald; Sir Thomas of 
Kyrkpatrik, lord of Closeburn; Edward of Crechtoun, lord 
of Sanqwar; David Stewart, son and heir of Sir William 
Stewart of Castilmylk; and John Durand, lord of Betwixt 
the Waters. 
It was this John Durand whose daughter had married 
Gilbert Grierson, the first laird of Lag; and it was by these 
two marriages that the lands of Rockell and those of Betwixt 
the Waters, in the parish of Troqueer, came into the pos- 
session of the Lag family. 
The next event connected with the church of Dunscore 
of which we hear is mentioned in a notice? in the Register 
