Identifier: imperialgazettscv2wils (find matches)
Title: The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Wilson, John Marius
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Publisher: London A. Fullarton
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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rect right arm, the hand grasping a dagger, on thepoint of yvhich yvas a Moors head cooped, proper;with the motto, Think on,—intimating the steadi-ness of purpose with which he contemplated his en-terprise. Sir Robert, the fourth in descent from SirWilliam, acted as gentleman of the bedchamber toJames VI. and Charles I.; and, in 1633, yvas createdby the latter a baron, with the title of Lord Kirk-cudbright. John, the third Lord, commenced publiclife by a course of fierce opposition to Cromwell andthe Independents ; and being, at the time, the pro-prietor of greater part of the parish, he compelledhis vassals to take arms in the cause of the King,brought desolation upon the villages of Dunrod andGaltway by draining off nearly all their male in-habitants, and incurred such enormous expenses asnearly ruined his estates. But at the Restoration,just when any royalist but himself thought every-thing gained, and ran to the King in hope of com-pensation and honours, he shied suddenly round,
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KIRKCUDBRIGHT. 251 KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. Opposed the royal government, sanctioned the riot,slightly mentioned in our parochial notice, for pre-venting the induction of,.iu Episcopalian minister,—md, at the time when the women were sent to thepillory, was captured, along with some other influ-ential persons, sent a prisoner to Edinburgh, anddriven to utter ruin. His successors never after-wards regained so much as an acre of their patri-monial property; and, for a considerable period,were conceded their baronial title only by courtesy.One of them was the Lord Kilcoubrie, whomGoldsmith, in his sneers at the poverty of the Scot-tish nobility, mentions as keeping a glove-shop inEdinburgh. In the reign of George III. they wereat last formally and legally re-instated in their hon-ours ; but, in 1832, at the death of the ninth Lord,the title—alternately a coronet and a football, nowglittering on the head, and now tossed in the mireBy the foot of every wayfarer—sank quietly intoextinction

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