Topography of Dumfries. 203 



26 These details are derived from the IJurgli Court Books — 

 8th October. 1523 (fol. 55); c.f., IGth August, 1526 (fol. 91); 17th 

 August, 1527 (fol. lOG); 15th .March, 1535,6 (ful. 162); 3rd June, 

 1562; and 2!)th July. 1565. 



27 Gregory the Great, in 601, to Etholhert of Kent:»— "Do 

 not, after all, pull down the fanes. Destroy the idols; purify the 

 buildings with holy water ; set relics there ; and let them become 

 temples to the true God. So the people will have no need to 

 change their places of concourse, and where of old tliey were wont 

 to .sacrifice cattle to demons, thitlier let them continue to resort on 

 the day of the saint to whom the church is dedicated, and slay 

 their beasts no longer as a sacrifice, but for a social meal in honour 

 of Him whom they now worship" (Bcde, Ecchs. llisi., i., 30; 

 Haddan-Stubbs, iii., 37). 



23 Sol (Norse and Anglo-Saxon)- mud ; vad or vath (Norse), 

 waeth (Anglo-Saxon) = ford. 



29 Mouswald, Torthorwald, Tinwald, Hutliwcll, Tjockorbie, 

 Canonbie, Middlebie, Sibbaldbie, Kelhead, Waterbeck, KUerbeck, 

 etc. It is curious to find from the recent fighting in Flanders that 

 a marsh is still a greater military obstacle than a river. 



30 Dargavel, Auchencreith, Durresquen (Dalscone), Trohough- 

 ton, Carnsalloch, Darcongill (Holywood), Duncow, Glencaple, Caer- 

 laverock, Tioqueer, Nith, etc. 



•51 In " An Abstract of the Names of Gentlemen .... taken 

 in assurance by Lord Wharton " (1547). " the Towne of Dumfrese," 

 furnisliing 221 men, is noted as being in Galloway (Armstrong's 

 Hisfunj of Liddesddle, app, xxxix., p. Ixxiv.). 



32 Transactions of the Dinafriesshire and Clalloiray Natural 

 History and Antiqt(arian Society, 3rd Ser., vol. i., p. 344, note. 



33 Ejch. lioUs, viii., 394, 555. 



34 ]'ide Report on Ancient and Historical ^roiiumciits of Scot- 

 land. Galloway, Part ii., No., 433, p. 255. 



35 Op. cit.,'No. 457, p. 265. 



36 Vita Sti. Johannis Epis : Morinorum. Ob. 1130 (Acta <SVni,- 

 torum. Januaiy 27th, iii., 409-17). 



37 "Dumfries: Its Burghal Origin" ('Transactions, Dumfries- 

 shire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd 

 Ser., ii., pp. 157-176). 



38 " The evidence seems to show that the border-land was a holy 

 ground, a neutral territory, within which those who belonged to 

 different communities — i.e., strangers and, because they were 

 strangers, enemies — met one another for the purpose of trading, 

 without fear of violence or robbery, so long, at all events, as the 

 trading lasted" (Sir P. J. Hamilton-Grierson, "The Boundary 

 Stone and the Market Cross," Scot. Hist. Itev., October, 1914). 



39 The asciiption to Dervorgilla is first made by Thomas Demp- 

 ster (Apparatus ad Hist. Scot., p. 83), a notoriously unreliable 

 chronicler. John Edwards ("The Greyfriars and their first Houses 



