Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . d cultivation of the district. Theirestates of Mauchline, Kylesmure, and Barmure wereafterwards formed into a regality, whose court metat Mauchline village, erected into a free burgh ofbarony in 1510 by James IV. After the Reforma-tion the ecclesiastical lands, etc., about Mauchlinewere formed into a temporal lordship in favour ofHugh, Lord Loudoun, whose original grant was dated1606. The town of Mauchline was at the same timemade a burgh of barony. In 1631 what is nowMuirkirk, arid in
Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . d cultivation of the district. Theirestates of Mauchline, Kylesmure, and Barmure wereafterwards formed into a regality, whose court metat Mauchline village, erected into a free burgh ofbarony in 1510 by James IV. After the Reforma-tion the ecclesiastical lands, etc., about Mauchlinewere formed into a temporal lordship in favour ofHugh, Lord Loudoun, whose original grant was dated1606. The town of Mauchline was at the same timemade a burgh of barony. In 1631 what is nowMuirkirk, arid in 1636 what is now Sorn, were detachedfrom Mauchline parish, which was thus reduced toless than a fifth of its former magnitude. Before theReformation there had been a chapel on each of theseportions. One was on Greenock Water; the otheron the Ayr, dedicated to St Cuthbert, stood E of thepresent village of Catrine, on a field known as St Cuth-berts Holm. Besides tho relics of the priory in the town, the oldtower of Kingancleugh may be mentioned among theantiquities. The Braes o Ballochmyle, and indeed tho. MAUD MAXWELLTOWN whole course of Ayr, is classic ground in Scottish poetry,from its connection with Burns. Maud or New Maud, a village on the mutual borderof New and Old Deer parishes, Aberdeenshire, with ajunction on the Great North of Scotland railway (1861-05), 16 miles SSAV of Fraserburgh, 13 W of Peterhead,and 31J N by W of Aberdeen. Of recent erection, ithas a post and telegraph office under Aberdeen, a branchof the North of Scotland Bank, an hotel, a GothicEstablished chapel of ease (1876 ; 420 sittings), theBuchan Combination Poorhouse (with accommodationfor 138 inmates), and cattle-markets on the last Mondayof every month.—On*. Sur., sh. 87, 1876. Maudiston. See Maddiston. Mauldslie Castle,a mansion in Carluke parish, Lanark-shire, near the right bank of the Clyde, 3 miles W ofCarluke town. Built for the fifth Earl of Hyndford in1793, after designs by Adam, it is a l
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