1. P. H. Brown, Scotland before 1700 from Contemporary Documents (Edinburgh, 1893), p. 122.
2. Robert A. Dodgshon, ‘Agricultural Change and Its Social Consequences in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, 1600–1780’, in T. M. Devine and David Dickson, eds., Ireland and Scotland 1600–1850 (Edinburgh, 1983), p. 51. This seminal essay has helped to shape this part of the chapter.
3. Ibid., pp. 52–3.
4. NRA(S), Douglas-Home Papers, 256/1, Report of Robert Ainslie, 7 September 1769.
5. Robert Heron, Observations made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland (Perth, 1793), vol. II, p. 32.
6. OSA, Smalholm, County of Roxburgh, http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link 1791–99, vol. 3, p. 218. Accessed 18 February 2017.
7. OSA, Kelso, County of Roxburgh, http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link, 1791–99, vol. 10, p. 87. Accessed 18 February 2017.
8. Cited in Robert Dodgshon, ‘The Clearances and the Transformation of the Scottish Countryside’, in T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History (Oxford, 2012), p. 144.
9. ‘Sir John Clerk of Penicuik’s Journie into Galloway in 1721’, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, vol. 41, p. 186.
10. Cited in Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell, The Lowland Clearances (East Linton, 2003), pp. 35–6.
11. A. S. Morton, ‘The Levellers of Galloway’, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, vol. 44 (1967).