Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725654

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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The first notice of a burgh of Kirkcudbright occurs in 1330. Pryde believed that Kirkcudbright had been a royal burgh which David II granted Archibald Douglas when the latter became Lord of Galloway about 1369, although there is no charter evidence extant. The burgh remained in Douglas hands until the 1455 forfeiture of that family. A charter of James II, dated 26 October 1455, once again made Kirkcudbright a 'free burgh', a grant which was confirmed in 1633 and reconfirmed in 1641.

J D Marwick 1866; J Stuart and G Burnett 1878; G S Pryde 1965; SBS Kirkcudbright 1977.