Excerpt from The Agnews of Lochnaw: A History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway; With Contemporary Anecdotes, Traditions, and Genealogical Notices of Old Families of the Sheriffdom, 1330 to 1747 On the title-page, consequently, the style has been adopted by which these old Sheriffs were known to their contemporaries, and which, even now, runs the smoothest in native ears. Our best genealogists - such as Crawford, Douglas, and Playfair - are not to be implicitly trusted in the matter of Galloway descents and as for Chalmers - high authority as his learned work, the Caledon ia, is generally supposed to be - not only is he inaccurate in various particulars as to almost every individual Sheriff of Wigtown, but his book is really as remarkable for its omissions as for its errors in all that concerns Wigtownshire. I am well aware that so audacious an assertion cannot be allowed to pass without some explanation, and I will endeavour to vindicate my own pretensions to correctness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.