CUMNOCK WITH HOLMHEAD, police burgh, Ayrshire, Scotland, on the Lugar, 33a m. S. of Glasgow by road, with two stations (Cumnock ana Old Cumnock) on the L.M.S.R. Pop. 3,653. It is in the parish of Old Cumnock (pop. 5,491). Coal and ironstone are extensively mined in the neighbourhood, and the industries include ironworks and the manufacture of elec trical machinery. When Alexander Peden (1626-1686), the per secuted Covenanter, died, he was buried in the Boswell aisle of Auchinleck church ; but his corpse was borne thence by a company of dragoons to the foot of the gallows at Cumnock, where they buried it. After the Revolution the inhabitants out of respect for the "Prophet's" memory abandoned their then burying-ground and turned the old place of execution into the present cemetery. A monument has been erected in his memory. Five miles south east lies the parish of New Cumnock (pop. 6,281) at the con fluence of Afton Water and the Nith, with a station on the L.M. S.R. Two miles north-west of Cumnock is Auchinleck (pro nounced Affleck), with a station on the same railway. Coal and iron mining and stone quarrying are important industries. It is the seat of the Boswell family, three of whom are well known—Lord Auchinleck, the judge (who dubbed Dr. Johnson "Ursa Major"), his son James, the biographer, and his grandson Sir Alexander, the author of "Gude nicht and joy be wi' you a'," "Jenny's Bawbee," "Jenny dang the weaver," and other songs and poems, who perished in a duel. Pop. of Auchinleck parish (1921) 7,178.