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DISTRICT COURT ROUND-UP
1768. February 24th.
We are aquainted from Cumbernauld that last week that William Cassils of that place died there, aged upwards of a hundred years, who had so well enjoyed the youthful gaiety and vigour of his constitution that but a short space before, his third wife,(by whom and the two former he had 24 children) a brisk young woman, could not forbear to rally him publickly on it, telling a company, that she could not say her husband deserved one wife for she was persauded that he was the very fittest man to succeed K.Solomon, in the number of his wives. The great age to which people in Cumbernauld live, is thought to be justly attributed to the fine air of that place, which is the seat and the property of the right Hon.John Earl of Wigton.
1767. December 26th.
On Wednesday night last, a gentleman on his return home Eastward from Glasgow, was attacked on the road leading to Cumbernauld, by two fellows, one of whom was dressed in sailors habit: who endeavoured to catch hold of the horse, but the creature being frighted, rose up on end, and by his fore-feet brought the fellow to the ground, and before the other could come to his assitance, the horse rode of full speed with his rider, never stopping till he got home, by which means the gentleman escaped being robbed. The same day these two fellows, as appears from the description given of them, were observed selling watches in Glasgow greatlty below value.
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