. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. WilliamJohnston, the carrier to Glasgow, and then it was much resortedto by weavers agents, merchants, &c, to transact business, orto deliver and receive letters, a large number of which wasconveyed to and from Glasgow by the carrier, to avoid theheavy postage then exacted. The proprietorship of Sunny-side during the present century has been in the hands of anumber of gentlemen. We may mention James and JohnWyld, William Johnston, merchant, Nicol Sommerville, whobuilt a good hous
. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. WilliamJohnston, the carrier to Glasgow, and then it was much resortedto by weavers agents, merchants, &c, to transact business, orto deliver and receive letters, a large number of which wasconveyed to and from Glasgow by the carrier, to avoid theheavy postage then exacted. The proprietorship of Sunny-side during the present century has been in the hands of anumber of gentlemen. We may mention James and JohnWyld, William Johnston, merchant, Nicol Sommerville, whobuilt a good house on the site of the old farm steading, and DrBlack, who enlarged the house by the addition of severalrooms. In 1855, it was purchased by W. S. Lorrain, Esq.,merchant, Glasgow, who, three years afterwards, remodelledand enlarged the house after a design by Mr Thomas MGuffy,architect, Glasgow, and changed the name to will be observed from the following woodcut that it is nowa spacious and elegant building, somewhat in the Elizabethanstyle of architecture. 112 BIGGAR AND THE HOUSE OF Mr Lorrain, in 1856, planted the adjoining grounds withtrees, which he has cleaned and nursed with so much carethat some of them have already attained a height of upwardsof twenty feet, and promise ere long to form one of the finestplantations surrounding a gentlemans mansion in the UpperWard. The grounds in this neighbourhood go under the names ofGuildie, the Colliehill, the Cuttings, the Scabbed Rigs, andthe Borrow Muir. They belonged, and still nearly all belong, tothe feuars of Biggar. Janet Brown, a daughter of John Brown,Biggar, was charged with having, in these fields, murdered herillegitimate child. She was tried for this crime on the 25thof June 1614, before the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh. Theindictment charged her with concealment of pregnancy, asnone of her neighbours were aware that she was with child,and as she had left her fathers house and gone to the fields
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