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- "The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (Volume I). This volume (page 242) says, "The charter of this most recent purchase bears that 'Gilbert M'Cambil and Nevin M'Gilbar, burgesses of the burgh of Innermessan, dispone the mill in Innermessan and certain tofts and crofts to Andrew Aignew and his heirs for ever.l; And because the former has no seal of his own he borrows that 'of an honourable man, Thomas M'Dowell of Garslew.' And the latter also having no seal, 'appends that of Sir Alexander Cambil, Lord of Corsevel, provost of the said burgh.. Witnessed at the Inch the 14th day of October 1426 by Sir Patrick M'Men, late abbot of Dundrennan, David Ross, Gilbert M'Dowel, Duncan M'Maycan, Andrew M'Kelli, Duncan M'mely, and many more."
Earlier in the book (page 218) I find, "Of the neighbours, the Constable found on his arrival the nearest were the Lairds of Corswall, Dunskey, Garthland, and Killeser. Corswall was owned by Alexander Campbell, a son of Sir Duncan Campbell of Loudoun, whose elder brother Andrew was Sheriff of Ayr. The lands are named from a hill (Cior-siale, 'the round hill of the brine;), at the northern extremity of the Rhynns, against which the billows break in a north-western gale in one sweep from Labrador."
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