Kirkcudbright

Who holds it

Name

Roland, lord of Galloway

Title

Lord of the town

Since

1185

Confidence

medium

Lord in 1200

Roland, lord of Galloway.

Charter

No burgh charter yet (royal burgh in the fourteenth century).

Council

The burgesses (holders of burgage plots) under the king's reeves (prepositi), with a burgh court; the 'Laws of the Four Burghs' (Berwick, Roxburgh, Edinburgh, Stirling) are the model customs. Named officers for 1200 are not pinned.

Communities

Thin.

Fairs and markets

Weekly market (day not pinned).

Militia

Townsmen's watch (not pinned).

Walls and castle

The lord's hall (thin).

Trade and crafts

Harbour on the Solway; cattle.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Minor place; details thin.

Primary sources for Galloway

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicle of Melrose, Anonymous (monks of Melrose abbey) (about 1173 to 1270, in many hands; the 1200 entries are near contemporary). The main Scottish annal for the year, kept at a Cistercian house on the Tweed. Read online
• Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles, Anonymous (monks of Rushen abbey, Mann) (about 1257, with continuations to 1316). The only native record of the kingdom of Mann and the Hebrides. Read online
• Early Sources of Scottish History, Various; collected and translated by A. O. Anderson (sources of the 6th to 13th centuries; collection published 1922). The quickest way to every non-English witness to Scotland and the Isles in 1200, in translation and in date order: the Irish annals on the Isles and Galloway, Orkneyinga saga and the Norwegian sagas on Harald Maddadsson of Orkney and Caithness and his war with William the Lion, the Chronicle of Mann on Ragnall and the Hebrides, Melrose and Holyrood, and Scottish charters. Read online