. 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. end him away, Sir Stair peremp-torily cried; hed ruin me and my tenants too out of hoose andha. He canna stay here. Sir Stairs own people long cherished his memory withaffectionate regard, knowing well that a spirit of genuinekindliness underlay a certain testiness of expression. They tookno exception to his stay-at-home habits. As he drove leisurelyabout in his carriage-and-four, n
. 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. end him away, Sir Stair peremp-torily cried; hed ruin me and my tenants too out of hoose andha. He canna stay here. Sir Stairs own people long cherished his memory withaffectionate regard, knowing well that a spirit of genuinekindliness underlay a certain testiness of expression. They tookno exception to his stay-at-home habits. As he drove leisurelyabout in his carriage-and-four, now exchanging a dry joke witha dependant, now welcoming a neighbour to share his bottle ofport, to them he was the very model of the good country gentle-man. His indifference to the gay world of fashion was withthem a merit; to them he seemed one of the few who came upto their idyllic standard, whose habits of life gave point to thepoets appeal to landowners in general: 0 wad they keep aback frae courtsAnd please themselves wi countra wad for every ane o them be better,The laird, the tenant, and the cottar. Sir Stair lived for 17 years after 1792, dying 28th January1809, in his seventy-fifth CHAPTER LI CONCLUSION There is a history in all mens lives,Figuring the nature of the times deceased :The which observed, a man may prophesy,With a near aim, of the main chance of thingsAs yet not come to life.—2 Henry IV. Our task is done! We have recovered tolerably continuousnotices of the Sheriffs of Galloway and their neighbours duringthe period of their enjoyment of hereditary office; and, togratify family curiosity, have traced the footprints of their fore-fathers backwards to the fief in the Bocages of Normandy,where they first found a local habitation and a name. We offerthe results of our researches as a very humble contribution toGalloway history. The style of the work, from its very nature, is desultory, thematerial heterogeneous, and thrown together with litt
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