Agnews of Lochnaw

266 THE BARONY OF AGNEW. [1629.
The enumeration of various rights " in nubibus" thus con-
ferred upon Sir Patrick is amusing ; for Math his lands he was
endowed with " Castles, Towers, Fortalices, Manor-Places, Houses,
Mills, Multures, Salmon and other fishings, with the teinds great
and small, with advocation, donation, and right of Patronage of
the Churches, and all and sundry mines and minerals of gold and
silver and lead and iron, and other metals, with all precious
stones, gems, pearls, christals, alums, corals, and others whatso-
ever."
With power " to build cities, burghs, ports, naval stations, bat-
teries, watch-towers, and fortifications . . . with free Justiciary,
office of sheriff and power of making Laws . . . punishing all
crimes . . . and with customs of all goods and merchandize."
" To be called the Barony and Kegality of Agnew to be
holden by the said Sir Patrick in free Barony and Eegality for
ever, by all just marches as the same lie in length and breadth,
in houses, buildings, bushes, plains, moors, marshes, ways, paths,
waters, stanks, rivers, meadows, grazings, pastures, mills, mul-
tures, hawkings, huntings, fishings, peats, turfs, coals, coal-heuchs,
rabbits, warrens, doves, dovecots, smithies, maltings, breweries,
brooms, woods, trees, quarries, stone and lime, with courts and
their issues, amercements, herezelds, bloodwits, and merchets of
women ; with furk, foss, sock, sack, thole, thame, vert, wrack,
waith, wair, venison ; infangthief, outfangthief, pit and gallows,
with common pasture and free ish and entry, with all and sundry
liberties, commodities, profits, easements, and their just pertinents
as well not named as named as -well below the earth as above." ! !
A curious circumstance occurred in 1629. In mid-winter (on
the 26th of January), during a heavy thunderstorm, Castle Ken-
nedy was struck by lightning. Several children and three dogs
were in an upper room, which the electric fluid entered ; the dogs
were killed upon the spot, and the furniture seriously damaged,
but the children escaped uninjured ; the bolt buried itself in a
room below used as a granary, entirely destroying the store of
meal, whilst near the castle a herd of some thirty cows were
struck dead during the storm.