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The History of Old Cumnock Gc 941.42019 C971w 1358836 GENEALOGY COLLECTION ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY GENEALOGY 941.42019 3 1833 00855 7867 C971W w> The History of Old Cumnock "W & AX Johnston. E.Unh.u-gli & London. THE History of Old Cumnock By the Rev. JOHN WARRICK, M.A. Free Church, Old Cumnock With a Map and Sixteen Illustrations ALEXANDER GARDNER Publisher to Hep Majesty the Queen PAISLEY; and PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON 1899 MAP OF THE PARISH OF OLD CUMNOCK Parish liuujnilmirji- aro marked for dotted line THE History of Old Cumnock By the Rev. JOHN WARRICK, M.A. Free Church, Old Cumnock With a Map and Sixteen Illustrations ALEXANDER GARDNER Publisher to Her Majesty the Queen PAISLEY j and PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON 1899 1358836 I TO Jawes /A. Mackinlay, Esq. * A. A,, f.S.A. (Lond. and Scot.). PREFACE. An attempt is made in the following pages to set down in order a number of facts, ancient and modern, regarding the Parish of Old Cumnock. The story has many sides, and the material to illustrate it is abundant. At every point it is full of interest. Many books have been searched for information. My obliga- tion to them is duly acknowledged in the text. I likewise express my indebtedness to all who have allowed me to examine records in their possession. Valuable help has also been given to me by several of my fellow-townsmen. It is hoped that this account of the doings and experiences of the Parish will appeal to many connected with it by birth or residence. At the same time, it may not prove unattractive to others beyond the limits of the locality, who delight in historic and antiquarian lore. JOHN WARRICK. Cumnock, April, 1899, —— CONTENTS. Chapter I. Old Cumnock—Its Features and Antiquities, 1 „ II. The Barons of Cumnock, - - - 25 „ III. Cumnock and the Struggle for Freedom in Scotland, ----- 55 „ IV. Before the Reformation, 63 „ V. St. Convall, Our Patron Saint, 71 „ VI. The Ministers of Cumnock from 1560, 81 „ VII. The United Presbyterian and other Churches, - - - - - 136 „ VIII. Cumnock and the Covenant, - - 160 „ IX. The Story of the Kirk-Session, - - 198 „ X. The Heritors' Minute Book, - - 221 „ XI. Robert Burns and Cumnock, - - 231 XII. Past Industries, ----- 240 „ „ XIII. Education in Olden Time, - - - 263 „ XIV.—Notable Men, 274 XV.—Parish Chips, ----- 301 XVI.—Cumnock of To-Day, - - - - 348 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Map of the Parish, ----- Frontispiece. View of Cumnock, ------ Page 3 Bank Viaduct, 9 Cubs1 Glen, -------- 13 Dumfries House, -------21 Glaisnock House, ------- 70 Old Established Church, - - - - - -111 Old Free Church, --_-_-_ 132 Design of New Free Church, ----- 134, United Presbyterian Church, - - - - - 139 Peden's Monument and Thorn Trees, - 173 Covenanting Flag and Other Relics, - 196 Established Church, ------- 223 The Cross, - - 302 The Bell Tree, 345 Glaisnock Street Fifty Years Ago, - 348 Glaisnock Street, 349 A LIST OF SOME OF THE AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. Accounts of' the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland. Acts of Parliament (Scots). Aiton's Agriculture in Ayrshire. Ayr and Wigton Archaeological Publications. Baillie's Letters and Journals. Barbour's Bruce. Blaeu's Le Grand Atlas. Blind Harry's Wallace. Bremner's Industries of Scotland. Brown's History of Sanquhar. Brown's (P. H.) Eariy Travellers in Scotland. Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland. Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers. Campbell's Tour in Ayrshire. Chalmers' Caledonia. Chambers' Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. Chambers' Domestic Annals. Chambers' Picture of Scotland. Cloud of Witnesses. Cochran-Patrick's Records qf Mining in Scotland. Collection of Ancient Scottish Prophecies (Bannatyne Club). Diocesan Registers qf Glasgow (Bain & Rogers). Douglas' Baronage qf Scotland. Douglas' Peerage qf Scotland. Edgar's Old Church Life in Scotland, xiv. Authorities Consulted. Erskine's Institutes. Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Forbes' Kalendars of Scottish Saints. Forsyth's Beauties of Scotland. Fountainhall's Historical Notices. Fraser's Booh of Douglas. Grant's Story qf the University of Edinburgh. Hewat's Little Scottish World. Hogg's Works. Howie's Scots Worthies. Hunter's (Kelso) Retrospect of an Artisfs Life. Hutchison's Reformed Presbyterian Church. Irving's (David) Lives qf Scottish Writers. Irving's (Joseph) Book qf Eminent Scotsmen. Johnston's (J. B.) Place Navies qf Scotland. Johnston's (J. C.) Treasury qf the Scottish Covenant. Keith's Scottish Bishops. Ker of Kersland's Memoirs. Leslie's History qf Scotland. Mackelvie's Annals and Statistics of the U.P. Church. Maxwell's (Sir Herbert) Scottish Land-Names. Moll's Maps of Scotland. Monipennie's Brief Description of Scotland. Napier's Folk Lore. Ordnance Gazeteer qf Scotland. Paterson's Contemporaries of Burns. Paterson's History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton. Paterson's Life of Wallace. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Regality Club (Glasgow) Papers. Register of the Privy Council qf Scotland. Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, — Authorities Consulted. xv. Robertson's Account of the Principal Families in Ayrshire. Rogers'* Book of Wallace. Rowan's Memorials of Ochiltree. Scott's (Hew) Fasti Ecclesice Scoticanas. Scott's (Sir Walter) Tales of a Grandfather. Simpson's Gleanings among the Mountains. Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol. VI. (New), Vol. V. Stubbs and Hadden's Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents. Swift's Memoirs of Captain John Creichton. Taylor's Pictorial Scotland. Thomson's History of the Scottish People. Todd's Homes, Haunts, and Battlefields of the Covenanters. Turner's (Sir James) Memoirs. Wallace's (Col.) Narrative of the Rising at Pentland. Wodrow's Analecta. Wodrow's History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland. Wyntoun's Chronykil of Scotland. The following MS. books have also been carefully examined: " The Records of the Presbytery of Ayr." " The Kirk-Session Records of Old Cumnock." " The Heritors' Minute Book." " The Records of the Burgh of Cumnock and Holmhead." CORRIGENDA. Page 71, line 5, for Wish- read Wishing. Page 74, last line, for fast read feast. History of Old Cumnock. CHAPTER I. GUI Cumnock—Its Features and Antiquities. " Relate what Latium was, Declare the past and present state of things." —Dryden's Virgil. The parish of Old Cumnock in the uplands of Ayrshire lies in the middle division of the county known by the familiar name of Kyle. Up to the year 1650, it was of much greater extent than it is at present. At that date, the larger portion of the parish lying toward the south was disjoined from it, and erected by the Commissioners for the plantation of kirks into the separate parish of New Cumnock. The wisdom of this procedure seems to have been called in question very soon, for in 1667 New Cumnock was deprived of its separate parochial existence and re- united to Old Cumnock. This step, which involved the closing of the church at New Cumnock, was taken at the instance of the patron, the Earl of 2 History of Old Cumnock. Dumfries, who desired only to have one minister and one church in the district. Evidently the reason was a pecuniary one. The Earl gained his point before the ecclesiastical authorities, there- by securing the reduction of the New Cumnock Church, in which all religious services were given up. It was not, however, till 1681 that Parliament formally ratified the deed. The Act of that year dealing with the matter contains a clause which shows how the people of the new parish were affected by the change. Orders came to " the inhabitants of the said lands, to resort and repair to the old kirk of Cumnock for hearing of the word, receiving of the sacraments, and uther publict acts of divine worship, as formerly." This new union lasted only for twenty-four years. In 1691, immediately after the Revolution, New Cumnock regained its parochial status, and has maintained it ever since. The reason of the division of the parish is easily understood. It was extremely large, covering 62,567 acres. Many parts of it were more than ten miles from the town of Cumnock, which was the chief centre of population, and the seat of the church. But it is not so easy to discover the principle on which the division was made. For in the division, 48,357|- acres, or more than three-fourths of the whole parish, fell to New Cumnock, while only 14,209| acres, or less than one-fourth, remained in the possession of Cumnock. Doubtless the dwellers in the old parish consoled themselves with the fact that, though they had lost quantity, they had kept quality ; for a very large portion of New Cumnock then, as now, was moss and hill, while only a small part of the land reserved for Cumnock was unfit for cultivation. Its Features and Antiquities. Very likely the necessity of providing a suitable stipend for the minister of the disjoined district gives us the true reason which led to the unequal division of the parish. Ministerial stipends formed a burden upon land. If the value of the land was small, the burden required to be spread over a correspond- ingly big area. Hence the acreage of New Cumnock, being of less agricultural value than that of our portion of the parish, required to be more extensive, in order to furnish a stipend sufficient to maintain a separate ministry. In consequence of the erection of New Cumnock into a dis- tinct parish, our district came to be known as Old Cumnock. Up to that time the name of the undivided parish was Cumnock. As some confusion sometimes occurs now in the use of the two names, it is well to bear in mind that Old Cumnock is the name of our parish, while Cumnock is the proper designation of our town. The extent of the parish remained unaltered from 1691 till 1895, when a small section of the parish of Auchinleck, lying across the Lugar, was added to it.
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