52 Earty EccLEsIASTICAL HISTORY OF DUNSCORE. 
Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway N.H. and A. 
Society, 1913-14, pp. 197, 215, and No. 58, ib., 1914-15 ,p. 58. 
He is called Sir John Johnneston in error in the Register of the 
Privy Council, 11., p. 760, in a notice belonging to the year 1579. 
19 Hew Scot, loc. cit. 
20 Ib., pp. 573, 587. 
21 Herries Inventory, No. 330. 
22 vill., p. 245. 
23 Hew Scot, loc. cit. 
24 Th. 
25 See an instrument of sasine dated 14th and recorded 17th 
April, 1648, in the Dumfries Particular Register of Sasines, where 
the date of her marriage contract is given as 3rd January, 1637. 
This is obviously wrong, as Agnes is mentioned as Black’s wife in 
an instrument of sasine dated 27th November and recorded 138th 
December, 1628, in the General Register of Sasines. 
26 x1., p. 243. 
27 2nd Ser., iv., pp. 311-12. 
28 Dalgoner Charter Chest. 
28a Sir John Hope of Craighall and Sir James Hope of Hopetoun 
were brothers, and were both appointed judges by Cromwell (see 
J. Brunton and D. Haig, An Historical Account of the Senators of 
the College of Justice; Edinburgh, 1836, pp. 289, 321). 
29 Thomas Grierson of Laggan and Swyre. In 1648 he served 
on the Committee of War for Dumfriesshire (MS. Register 
of the Committee of Estates, in the Register House, Edinburgh), 
and in 1649 he was one of the Commissioners of Grievances. 
30 James Kirko of Sundaywell. So far I have not discovered 
the name of his wife. Dr King Hewison drew my attention to 
the fact that on the tower of Sundaywell there is inscribed above 
the entrance “‘J.K. 1651. S.W.” ‘‘J.K.’’? undoubtedly stands for 
James Kirko, and Dr WHewison suggests that ‘‘S.W.’ may 
represent the initials of his wife, perhaps one of the many Welshes 
of the district. This seems to be a suggestion much more probable 
than that of the writer of the Account of the Parish of Dunscore 
in the Statistical Survey, who reads ‘‘S.W.” as representing 
Sundaywell. I take this opportunity of correcting a mistake in 
A. Crichton’s Memoirs of the Rev. John Blackader, Edinburgh, 
1823, p\ 214. Speaking of the year 1678, he says that Blackader 
‘“was met by Kirk of Sundaywell. The MS. (Wodrow Coll., xevii., 
iv., Advocates’ Library) from which Crichton’s statement is taken 
reads: —‘‘ A gentleman of Nithsdale called Sund: was come from 
Galloway to meet him.’’ This was probably Maclellan, as Kirko 
had died about four years before. 
31 William, the son of Thomas Fergusson of Caitloch. Both 
father and son are frequently referred to in the statutes of the 
period (see Folio Acts, xii., p. 533 s.v.). 
52 T am indebted to Mr Shirley, our Secretary, for notes of the 
