204 Topography of Dumfries. 



in Scotland," Trans., Scottish Ecclesiological Society, ii., 66 et seq.) 

 points out that in 1264 the Sheriif of Dumfries takes credit in his 

 accounts for £4 paid to the Grey Friars of that town in procuratione 

 (Exch. Rolls, i., 17), that is, for the supply of their necessities in 

 the way of food and clothes, and that Dervorgilla's benefactions were 

 all made after the death of Balliol in 1268 (Bain's Cal., i., 2501); 

 the appearance of the Friars in Dumfries pre-dated that event. 

 VVynton and Fordun, the former in a list of Dervorgilla's bene- 

 factions evidently intended to be exhaustive, do not mention 

 Dumfries. 



40 Edgar, writing circa 1746, gives the following interesting 

 detail about the Friary Gate in the Friars' Vennel : — "Within 

 these 25 or 30 years the outer gate [of the Greyfriars' Convent] 

 v»rith old Letters Jesus Maria was standing, and the Administrators 

 having (the Kirk being demolished) feued out parcels of ground for 

 building to the Inhabitants, the said gate or place is rebuilt a 

 second time." The cellars and wells of the Convent buildings still 

 exist at the back of the shops in St. David Street. They cause the 

 hill in Greyfriars' Street (i.e., the Burgher's Brae — from the 

 Burgher Chapel). 



41 The 'Dumfries Weekly Journal, September 2nd, 1793 : — 

 "Lately the old houses at the head of the Friars' Vennel which 

 faced the High Street have been taken down in order to open up 

 the street leading to the new Bridge." 



42 James Davidson, " The Early Coinage of Scotland, with 

 Special Reference to a Small Group of the Early Coins of Alexander 

 III." {Transactions, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Society, N.S., xxiv. (1911-12), p. 285). 



45 Bain, Cal. of Documents, iii., 281. 



44 Military Report (1563-6), Armstrong's Liddesdale, app. Ixx., 

 p. ex.: — "The Oulde Castell of Drumfreis, fyve myles and a half 

 v/ithin the mowtht of Nytht, standing upoun the syde of the same, 

 verye good for a forte. The platt and ground thereof in maner lyke 

 to Roxbuz'ght Castell." 



45 " Eodem anno castra de Buth [Buittle], de Dumfres et 

 Dalswynton, cum multis aliis fortaliciis manu fortis regis capiuntur 

 et ad solum prosternuntur " (Lib., xii., cap. xix., ed. 1759; ii., 

 p. 245; ed. 1871; i., p. 346). 



46 Return by Sir Eustace de Maxwell, sheriff of Dumfries, to 

 Edv/ard III., 15th October, 1336: — " De mota castri et quibusdam 

 terris dominicis Kyngesholm apud Dunfres que solebant valere per 

 annum xl s. non respondet ex causa predicta," i.e., " fuit vasta per 

 tempus huius compoti " (Bain, Cal. of Documents, iii., 318). The 

 fragment printed in Illustrations of Scottish History (Maitland 

 Club), p. 60, and ascribed to 1335, obviously belongs to 1301. 



47 Beg. Mag. Sig. (new ed.), vol. i., No. 329. 



48 Beg. Mag. Sig., 1424-1513, No. 3335, 9th November, 1508: — 

 " Domum lapideam in dicto burgo super latus mentis Capelle, viz., 

 le Chapelside.'^ 



