Topography of Dumfries. 205 



48a ^Ve may append here tlic names of the other crosses about 

 tho burgh which have come under our notice : — The Market C'ross, 

 north of the Midsteeple ; the Fisli Cross, until Ju^', 1693, "lying 

 very inconveniently ujwn tlie mouth of Lochmabengate," and tlien 

 removed further west, and finally set below the Midsteeple (the 

 position being still marked by crosswoik in the stone setts) ; the 

 Pykit (or Pointed) Cross, near the junction of St. Michael Street 

 and the Bankend Road ; and the Dow (or Dove) Cross, near the 

 junction of the Edinburgh and Moffat Roads. 



49 Exch. lioUs, i., 303. 



50 Edgar, in his MS. History (c. 1746), writes:— "The old 

 schoolhouse which hath been the Town School house for nigh 200 

 j-ears in Chappelhill, lay at a distance from the street and diversion 

 of the boys, capacious for all or more schollai-s than have been at 

 that School for fifty j'ears past. . . . The raising of the roof 

 of this or putting on a new roof, being not above 36 feet, and 

 raising the side walls 4 or 5 feet for a second with two Chimneys 

 would have been sufficient for a Schoolmr and Uslier." 



51 Exch. lioUs, xii., 269, 368. 373, " et eidem per solutionem 

 factam Willelmo Cunyngham in Drumfres in viginti marcis per 

 literas domini regis in partem solutionis quadraginta marcarum sibi 

 per dictas literas concessarum in recomponsam hospitii sui per repon- 

 tinum incendium distructi." On August I7th, 1504, Gilbert Thonie- 

 sone was convicted by the court "of the theftuous taking of mer- 

 chandize from the merchants of Drumfreis at the Burning therof " 

 (Pitcairn, Criminal Trials). 



52 Auchinleck Chronicle, 1819, p 4. 



53 " Item it is statuit and ordanit that quhar ony persone or 

 personis chanceis to fall seik in tyme of pest quhat sunicwyr seiknes 

 it be that the saidis seik folkis sail adverteis aklyrman or bailleis 

 ane or maa quhilkis sail pass wt the officiaris and ve.sy the saidis 

 personis and geif it beis fundin the pest infectine seikness to be put 

 to muyr wtout delay And all suspect personis beand in housses or 

 company to be inclusit for xv dais And clenget sa sone as thai may 

 be And thair efter to be inclusit for xv dais efter thair dengeing 

 and Inlikwyiss that onj' suspect persone or personis mak interchange 

 ett drynk company or sort W* ony cleine persone vnder paine of 

 deid And that all guidis and geris be put to dengeing and vsit as 

 at sawerale for the space of xv dais and ferder induring o"" hienes 

 vill And that na personn take vpone hand to brek this said statute 

 nor act ondyr the pane of byrning of thair gudis and dowing puttin 

 of ther selffis to the deid. Item it is statuit and ordanit that na 

 persoun beand put to the mwyr seik or suspect return to the said 

 burgh agane or to enter wMn the francheis of this burgh agane 

 w'out licence of the o>"smen vnder the pane of deid quhen thai be 

 clengeit or not w* certification to thame that dois contrary that 

 thai sail be put to the deid. Item it is statuit and ordanit that 

 geif ony per.soun dissobeyis the charge gewin to thaime be the 



