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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COCKPEN HOUSE [site of] Cockpen (Site of) William Renwick, Cockpen
James Hays, Silver Haugh
013 The Site of a mansion House on the Estate of Cockpen now the property of the Earl of Dalhousie, no part of the building now remains and the ground where it stood in under Cultivation, a portion of a sunk wall on the South side of it and a pump house is pointed out as having been buildings in connection with it, the surface of the ground where the mansion house stood is Strew'd [Strewed] with fragments of broken Stone & Lime mortar such as is usually used for building purposes. The Celebrated Song "The Laird of Cockpen" was a composition made upon a former Proprietor of this Mansion.
COCKPEN Cockpen William Renwick, Cockpen
James Hays, Silver Haugh
013 A large farm house and offices all in good repair attached to it is a farm of ground The property of the Earl of Dalhousie and is at present in his own possession

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[Page] 67
List of Names collected by Thomas Smith c/asst [Civilian Assistant]
Plan 13A Trace 4
[Object for Cockpen site] Site of Mansion
[Object for Cockpen] House and Offices
[Parish] Cockpen
[Signed] Thomas Smith c/a [Civilian Assistant] 1st July 18 [--]

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