. 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. fc^=^^-=«^-=^/^Ti I. (SalSeripch. ^^^(Jastfe. excepting two old pollarded sycamores, one close to the castleand another near the adjacent mill, the bolls of a few elders ofunusual size, with some traces of box in the old ^ Galdenoch Castle stands secluded in a hollow dell througli which awinding burn hurries on to the not far distant sea. It has the door in there-entering a
. 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. fc^=^^-=«^-=^/^Ti I. (SalSeripch. ^^^(Jastfe. excepting two old pollarded sycamores, one close to the castleand another near the adjacent mill, the bolls of a few elders ofunusual size, with some traces of box in the old ^ Galdenoch Castle stands secluded in a hollow dell througli which awinding burn hurries on to the not far distant sea. It has the door in there-entering angle, a vaulted ground floor, and a main stair in the wing to the 168 HEREDITARY SHERIFFS OF GALLOWAY [ 1696 About the same time a Galloway laird disappeared in amore tragic manner from the scene. Sir G-odfrey MCulloch having squandered his patrimonyand sold his estates in Mochrum to the Maxwells of Monreith,took up house at Cardoness. Here a neighbour, Willam Gordon,having poinded some cattle straying on his lands, Sir Godfreyjoined a party illegally convened to release them. A fray wasthe result, in which MCulloch, in the words of his indictment, did shoot at the said Gordon with a gun charged, and by theshot broke his th
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