This Is To Give Notice
that there is a muckle Fair to be hadden in the muckle Toun o' the Langholm on the 15th day of July, auld style, upon his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch's Merk Lands, for the space of eight days and upwards; and a' land-loupers, and dub-scoupers, and gae-by-the-gate swingers, that come to breed hurdums or durdums, huliments or buliments, hagglements or bragglements, or to molest this public Fair,they shall be ta'en by order of the Bailey and Toun Cooncil, and their lugs be nailed to the tron wi' a twalpenny nail, and they shall sit doun on their bare knees and pray seven times for the King and thrice for the Muckle Laird o' Ralton, and pay a groat tae me, Jamie Ferguson, Baillie o' the aforesaid Manor, and I'll away hame and hae a Bannock and a saut herring tae ma denner by way o' auld style.
