. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . e. In 1463 thetown was burned by the English, under the Earl of War-wick; and in 1484 the recreant Earl of Douglas and thetreacherous Duke of Albany attempted to plunder iton St Magdalenes fair day, but were repelled by theinhabitants. Under the Police Act of 1892 it is governedby a provost, 2 bailies, and 6 commissioners. The cor-poration once possessed considerable property, but sosquandered and alienated it as to become bankrupt;and the corporation revenue was only £48 in 1895. In1
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . e. In 1463 thetown was burned by the English, under the Earl of War-wick; and in 1484 the recreant Earl of Douglas and thetreacherous Duke of Albany attempted to plunder iton St Magdalenes fair day, but were repelled by theinhabitants. Under the Police Act of 1892 it is governedby a provost, 2 bailies, and 6 commissioners. The cor-poration once possessed considerable property, but sosquandered and alienated it as to become bankrupt;and the corporation revenue was only £48 in 1895. In1894 a water-supply was introduced into the unites with Dumfries, Annan, Sanquhar,and Kirkcudbright (called the Dumfries burghs) in LOCHMABEN returning a member to parliament. The municipaland the parliamentary constituency numbered 236 and171 in 1895, when the annual value of real propertyamounted to £2803 (£2794 in 1884), plus £447 forrailways. Pop. of royal burgh (1861) 1544, (1871)1627, (1881) 1539, (1891) 1366; of parliamentary andpolice burgh (1841) 1328, (1851) 1092, (1871) 1244,. Seal of Lochmaben. (1881) 1216, (1891) 1038, of whom 568 were in parliamentary burgh (1891) inhabited 28,vacant 29, building 1. Lochmaben Castle, the ancestral residence of theBruce, stands 1 mile SSE of the burgh, on the extremepoint of a heart-shaped peninsula which juts a con-siderable way into the S side of the Castle the isthmus at the entrance of the peninsulaare vestiges of a deep fosse, which admitted at bothends the waters of the lake, and converted the siteof the castle into an island, and over which a well-guarded drawbridge gave or refused ingress to theinterior. Within this outer fosse, at brief intervals,are a second, a third, and a fourth, of similar last, stretching from side to side of the peninsulaimmediately at the entrance of the castle, was protectedin front by a strong arched wall or ledge, behind whicha besieged
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