208 Topography of Dumfries. 



ecclesiam parochialem de Drumfres in insula B.V.M. 

 annuum redditum 9 marcarum de suo tenemento in burgo de Drum- 

 freis in le Myd-raw ejusdem, inter tenementum quondam David 

 Makanys ex boreaii, magnum domura lapideam vulgariter nuncu- 

 patam le Newerk ex australi, stratam regiam ex occidentali et 

 le Ferissoun Herbare ex orientali partibus . . ." 



62 Exch. Bolls, xiii., 132, " et in viginti duobus libris solutes per 

 eundeni Willelmum [Maklellane de Bonbj-J uxori Wilielmi Cunyng- 

 hame in Drumfreis de mandato dicti rotulatoris pro certis expensis 

 intratis in libris domicillii domini regis tempore sue residentie apud 

 dictum burgum" (10th July, 1508-19; June, 1509). Lord High 

 Treasurer's Accounts, 13tli September, 1504, " To William Cunning- 

 hame's wif in Drumfreise, for the Kingis bele chere, x 1." 



63 Mem. Glasg. in CoUeg. Scot., Paris, f. 159. See Keith's 

 History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, i., app., 

 p. 90— the reference is from M'Dowall's History (1906), p. 236. 



64 Reg. Mag. Sig., 15th November, 1506 (vide footnote 61); also 

 Burgh Court Books, 3rd June, 1523. 



65 M'Dowall's History of the Burgh of Dumfries, 2nd ed., p. 314, 

 Shoemakers' Seal of Cause, 1st December, 1513. The author takes 

 the Cowgate to be in Friars' Vennel, but that was too narrow a 

 passage, we imagine, for a leather market, unless, indeed, it is 

 taken to mean the top of the High Street. I have not come across 

 the name elsewhere. M'Dowall gives no reference to the locus of 

 the exceedingly interesting "Seal of Cause." 



66 "Doubts about Dervorgilla " [by Dr George Neilson], The 

 Glasgow Herald, 14th August, 1913. 



67 Cal. of Papal Beg., Letters, viii., p. 347. 



68 These charters are reproduced and transcribed in The Scottish 

 Grey Friars, by W. Moir Bryce (vide ii., pp. 101-3). 



69 Dr Neilson informs me that " the key to a good many things 

 about the bridge is to be found in the peculiar if not unique terms " 

 of the Charter by James I. to Margaret, his sister, of the Lordship 

 of Galloway (Beg. Mag. Sig., 1424-1513, No. 47, dated 3rd May, 

 1426). Margaret was not the heiress, and the gift constitutes 

 rather a questionable exercise of prerogative, though, as Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell suggests, it may have been in accordance with the will of 

 her husband (A History of the House of Douglas, i., 147). She held 

 it for her lifetime (pro toto tempore vitae ejus), but surviving her 

 sons, grandsons, and her brother-in-law, resigned it, and on 26th 

 January, 1449-50 (Beg. Mag. Sig. 1424-1513, No. 309) it was granted 

 to William the 8th Earl, her nephew. Margaret, the Fair Maid of 

 Galloway, her grand-daughter, had succeeded to the province on 

 the death of her brother William, 6th Earl, and William, the 8th 

 Earl, married her to consolidate the estates. On his death on 28th 

 February, 1451-2, James, his brother (9th and last Earl), succeeded 

 to the Douglas estates, and to retain the province married his 

 brother's widow. His charter to the Grey Friars (4th January, 



