72 THe Brus INSCRIPTION AT ANNAN. 
In 1824 there appeared the Caledonia of George 
Chalmers, and in vol. ili., p. 139, was inserted a fairly 
elaborate note, partly drawn from Pennant, although pro- 
bably with supplementary information from observation, 
whether of the amazingly industrious Chalmers himself or of 
some of his many correspondents. 
‘* A stone which was taken from the ruins of the castle of 
Annan and built into the wall of a genlteman’s garden has on 
it this inscription :—‘ ROBERT DE BRus CouUNTE DE CARRICK ET 
SENIEUR DU VAL DE ANNAN. 1300.’ Pennant’s Tour, iii., 
84.—From this inscription it is probable that the castle of 
Annan was rebuilt in 1300 a.p. A small garrison was usually 
kept in the castle of Annan as a border fort. Border Laws, 
134, Acta Parl., ii., 140.—This castle was demolished in 
1570 by an English army under the Earl of Sussex. Hist. 
King James VI., 99; Bannatyne’s Journal, 36.—It was after- 
wards rebuilt and continued a border fortification till the 
union of the crowns. Acta Parl., iv., 171.—In 1609 the 
King granted the castle of Annan to the burgh and parish 
for the purpose of using it as a church, or for using the 
materials of it in building a church. Jb., 441.—The castle 
was afterwards pulled down, and no part now remains but 
the fosses that surrounded it.’’ 
There is good reason to believe that the Border fort or 
tower of Annan referred to in the sixteenth century notices 
was not at the Mote site, but stood further south, near 
what is now the Old Churchyard, and near to or upon the 
site of the present Town Hall. This seems clear from the 
military sketch made towards 1563, excellently reproduced 
by Mr R. Bruce Armstrong in his History of Liddesdale, as 
well as from the facts gathered in the present writer’s paper 
on *‘ Old Annan,’’ twenty years ago, in the Society’s pro- 
ceedings. 
In the New Statistical Account, vol. iv., p. 525, in the 
account of Annan, written in 1837 by the Rev. James Moni- 
laws, there is the following description :— 
‘“On an angled elevation on the east bank of the river, 
and west side of the town, was situated Annan Castle, the 
ruins of which, with the exception of a small part of the wall 
