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, Volume 2D. Douglas, 1893 - Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland) Covers the period A. D. 79-1792. |
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Agnew of Galdenoch Agnew of Lochnaw Alexander Agnew Antrim Baillie Baldoon Barnbarroch baronage Baronet Barony Blair bolls brother Campbell Captain Castle Kennedy Castle Stewart Church Claverhouse Colonel command Commissioners Court Croach daughter David dragoons Duke Dumfries Dunbar Dunragit Earl of Galloway Edinburgh eldest Elizabeth estates father French George Glenluce Gordon heir honour horse Innermessan Ireland Kenmure king Kirkcudbright Lady Laird of Garthland lands Leswalt letter Loch Ryan Lord Galloway Lord Stair Lordship M'Culloch M'Dowall M'Kie March Margaret married Mary merks minister Mochrum Monreith mortified rent officers orders parish Parliament party Payit in mortified Portpatrick rebels regiment Royal Scotland Scottish Sheriff of Galloway shire Sir Andrew Agnew Sir James Agnew Sir John Sir Patrick Agnew Sir Robert Adair Sir Stair Sir William Maxwell soldiers Stewartry Stranraer Stranrawer tenants Thomas troops Viscount whilst wife Wigtown Wigtownshire William Maxwell young sheriff
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Page 405 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 427 - Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Page 315 - M'Glashan's as before ; but she insisted that the summons be delivered to the Governor, and a timid lieutenant, with a constitution impaired by drinking, was prevailed upon to carry it. No sooner, however, did the peerless knight hear something of it read than he furiously drove the lieutenant from his presence to return the paper, vociferating after him a volley of epithets against Lord George Murray, and threatening to shoot through the head any other messenger he should send ; which Molly overhearing,...
Page 385 - ... the Ranger then having no external appearance of war, it was expected that this rover would have come alongside ; I was, however, mistaken, for though the men were at their quarters, yet this vessel outsailed the Ranger, and got clear in spite of a severe cannonade. " The next morning, off the Mull of Galloway, I found myself so near a Scotch coasting schooner, loaded with barley, that I could not avoid sinking her.
Page 318 - Andrew at the head of it, with this compliment ' My lord, I am very glad to see you, but by all that's good you have been very dilatory. — We can give you nothing to eat...
Page 319 - April, some officers hastening to see the poor dead horse of Captain Wentworth, it being the 17th day of his confinement, they had no sooner opened the door and entered, than they were precipitately driven out, laughing to avoid the animal, who was wrildly staggering about.
Page 315 - Lieutenant out of his presence, to return the paper; vociferating after him, so loud, on the stairs, strong epithets against Lord George Murray, with threatenings to shoot through the head any other messenger whom he should send; that the girl herself perfectly overheard him, and was glad to take back the summons, and to return with her life to Lord George...
Page 319 - We can give you nothing to eat/ To which his lordship answered, laughingly, with his usual good humour, ' I assure you, Sir Andrew, I made all the haste I possibly could, and I hope that you and the officers will do me the honour to partake with me of such fare as I can give you.
Page 320 - Several advanced parties of that militia met with the same fate in different places. Lord George Murray invested the castle of Blair, which was defended by sir Andrew Agnew, until a body of Hessians marched to its relief, and obliged the rebels to retire.
Page 313 - Tower projecting from the west end of the front of the house which faces to the North. The entrance into the ground story of that tour was by a door in the centre of its E.