. The hereditary sheriffs of Galloway ; their "forebears" and friends, their courts and customs of their times, with notes of the early history, ecclesiastical legends, the baronage and place-names of the province. 700 ; of Polmallet, £420. About this time the young Sheriff acquired the fullsuperiority of the castle and manor of Cruggieton; which,although in possession of his sister Jane as a dower house, hadbeen held under Lord Castle Stewart as superior. The more modern history of the old strength appears to bethis. Having been inhabited successively by Allan de Quincey,the Comyns, second an
. The hereditary sheriffs of Galloway ; their "forebears" and friends, their courts and customs of their times, with notes of the early history, ecclesiastical legends, the baronage and place-names of the province. 700 ; of Polmallet, £420. About this time the young Sheriff acquired the fullsuperiority of the castle and manor of Cruggieton; which,although in possession of his sister Jane as a dower house, hadbeen held under Lord Castle Stewart as superior. The more modern history of the old strength appears to bethis. Having been inhabited successively by Allan de Quincey,the Comyns, second and third Earls of Buchan, Lord Soulis, andChapter of Whithorn; in 1365, according to charters, it belongedto Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure, and there can be no doubthe concurred in the Duchess of Touraines arrangement, bywhich the castle and a part of the lands were given to her 1 The matrimonial conti-act for John Maxwell had been previously signed atLochnaw, 19tli February 1656. There is a discharge to William Maxwell of Monreith by Sii* Andrew Agnewfor 6000 marks, in sums of 3000 marks at the feast and term of Candlemas 1657and 1658 each respectively, in name of tochergood paid with Margaret C R U G G 1Facsimile of a Drazving in
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