. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. spans of 71 feet each, with a compound span of98 feet, which, turning on a cast-iron cylinder filledwith concrete, allows of the passage of vessels beyondthe town up to Tongueland. Kirkcudbright was anciently a burgh of regality, andheld of the Douglases, Lords of Galloway, as into a royalburgh in 1455 by charterfrom James II., it re-ceived another charterfrom Charles I. in 1633,and is governed by aprovost, 2 bailies, atreasurer, and 13 coun-cillors. The incorpo-rate
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. spans of 71 feet each, with a compound span of98 feet, which, turning on a cast-iron cylinder filledwith concrete, allows of the passage of vessels beyondthe town up to Tongueland. Kirkcudbright was anciently a burgh of regality, andheld of the Douglases, Lords of Galloway, as into a royalburgh in 1455 by charterfrom James II., it re-ceived another charterfrom Charles I. in 1633,and is governed by aprovost, 2 bailies, atreasurer, and 13 coun-cillors. The incorpo-rated trades are thehammermen, shoe-makers, squaremen,tailors, weavers, andclothiers. Sheriff courtssit weekly on Thursdaysand Fridays; smalldebt courts on every second Friday during session ; and justice of peacesmall debt courts on the second Tuesday of everymonth. The quarter sessions are held on the firstTuesday of March, ]\Iay, and August, and on the lastTuesday of October. Kirkcudbright unites with Duji-FRiEs, Annan, Lochmaben, and Sanquhar in sending amember to parliament. The parliamentary and tha 419. Seal of Kirkcudbrig-ht. KIRKCUDBRIGHT KIRKCUDBRIGHT raimicipal constitueiic}^ numbered 300 and 401 in 1883,when the annual vahie of real property within theburgh amounted to £8722 (£7155 in 1873), whilst in1882 the corporation revenue was £1529, and the har-bour revenue £130. Pop. (1841) 2606, (1851) 2687,(1861) 2552, (1871) 2470, (1881) 2571, of whom 1428were females. Houses (1881) 466 inhabited, 21 have claimed for Kirkcudbright that it wasknown to the Romans as Ecnutium, to the CelticNovantee as Caer-cuahrit ( fort on the bend of the river);but the earliest authentic mention of it is the visit ofAilred, Abbot of Rievaux, in 1164, on the feast of StCuthbert, to whom its ancient kirk was site of this chmch is marked by St CuthbertsChurchyard, 3 furlongs NE of the town, where, besidesEwarts and Billy Marshall, the Tinkler (1672-1792), areburied W
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