76 Burghs of Annandale, 



Register. A later charter by the same monarch, however, 

 is duly registered there— that of 1612, confirming the burgh 

 in all its privileges and in its lands, which (as was the case 

 at Annan also) embraced the bulk of the rural parish to 

 which the town gave name. When King James in that year 

 renewed the burgh rights by this Charter of Novodamus^s his 

 director of chancery made him express his understanding 

 " that his progenitors beyond the memory of men had erected 

 the Burgh of Lochmaben — lying in the western marches of 

 the kingdom of Scotland, in the Stewartry of Annandale — 

 into a royal burgh." Beyond the memory of men certainly; 

 beyond the exact memory even of history; yet the facts 

 assuredly countenance the tradition which selected King 

 Robert the Bruce as the particular progenitor by or through 

 whom the erection was accomplished. 



Pre=Reformation Kirkmahoe. 



By R. C. Reid, Esq. of Mouswald Place. 



[A reprint of this paper, a portion of which forms an 

 appendix to " Galloway Records," vol. i, by Mr G. M. 

 Stewart, has been presented to the Society by Mr Reid, and 

 is available in separate form.] 



13th November, 1914. 



Chairman — G. Macleod Stewart, V.P. 



The Arms of the Ancient and Royal Burgh of Sanquhar. 



By the Rev. Wm. M'Millan, of Hallside. 



Although there is still on the Statute Book of the Ancient 

 Realm of Scotland a law enacted in the year 1592 which 

 declares " that nane of the common sort of people nocht 

 worthie be the law of amies to beir ony signs armoriallis 



68 Reg. Mag. Sig., 1609-1620, No. 698. 



