Agnews of Lochnaw

464 GALLOWAY MEMBERS OF THE ESTATES. [1697.
appointed by the Privy Council to make and mark a road and
highway, for droves from New Galloway to Dumfries, holding the
high and accustomed travelling way betwixt the two said Burghs."
The Sheriff was a constant attendant in Parliament. On the
first day of the various sessions, commencing the 18th April
1693 ; the 9th of May 1695 ; the 8th of December 1696, and the
19th of July 1698, on the rolls being called, the two commissioners
for the barons of Wigtownshire are regularly entered as present.
All this time, the first Parliament of William and Mary had
subsisted ; but although no new election had taken place, there
were from time to time changes in the representation ; and on
the 22d May 1700, on the opening of the session, the following
members of the three Estates represented Galloway : —
Of the Nobility—
The Earl of Galloway and Viscount Stair.
Of the Barons —
Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw,
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Patrick Dunbar of Machermore,
- j'or Wigtown.
William M'Dowall of Garthland,
M'GuffocofEusco, } For Kirkcudbright.
Commissioners for the Boroughs —
William Coltran, for Wigtown.
Patrick Murdoch, for Whithorn.
Sir Patrick Murray, for Stranraer.
Sir Andrew Hume, for Kirkcudbright.
Sir Hew Dalrymple, for New Galloway.
Long before this, Sir Andrew Agnew had appointed his eldest
son Sheriff-depute ; and in the first week of the session, a com-
plaint, forwarded by his son, acting as Sheriff of Galloway, was
read in the House, of the piratical proceedings of certain English
sea-captains in Lochryan.
The whole proceedings of the Sheriff's court are embodied in