The west of Scotland in historyРипол Классик, 2012 - History "Originally written as a series of independently standing articles, these essays present studies of families or events which took place in "the west of Scotland." Among the families are: Corehouse and the Cranstouns, Auchinleck and the Boswells, the Mures of Caldwell, Cathcart and Its Earls, the Steuarts of Coltness and Allanton, Andrew Stuart of Torrance and Castlemilk, Carnwath and the Lockharts of Lee, Dalrymple and the Stairs, Kelburne, Hawkhead, and the Earls of Glasgow (Boyle), Dundonald and Its Earls, Coilsfield and the Montgomerys, the Lockharts of Milton-Lockhart, Ardgowan: the Stewarts and Shaw-Stewarts, Pollok and the Maxwells, the MacGregors and the Colquhouns, the Grahams of Montrose, Cumbernauld House and the Flemings, the Spreulls of Glasgow, and the Fullartons of Fullarton. There are a wide range of articles included as well on such topics as Queen Mary, Renfrewshire witches, Galloway, the Herries peerage case, St. Columba, and the Scots."--Container insert. |
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Page viii
... GALLOWAY, .- . . . . . _ . . . . . 309 THE HERRIES PEERAGE, . . . . . . . . . . . 315 A GALLOWAY CHARACTER, . . . . . . . . . . . 320 DRUMLANRIG AND THE DOUGLASBS, . . . . . . . . . 324 THE Scorrs or Buccmwcn, . . . . . . . . . . 329 ST ...
... GALLOWAY, .- . . . . . _ . . . . . 309 THE HERRIES PEERAGE, . . . . . . . . . . . 315 A GALLOWAY CHARACTER, . . . . . . . . . . . 320 DRUMLANRIG AND THE DOUGLASBS, . . . . . . . . . 324 THE Scorrs or Buccmwcn, . . . . . . . . . . 329 ST ...
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... Galloway side of the Nith. Mary herself, in the pathetic letter to Elizabeth, written from Workington, Cumberland, three days alter the battle, says she rode sixty miles across country the first day :-“ It is,” she writes with touching ...
... Galloway side of the Nith. Mary herself, in the pathetic letter to Elizabeth, written from Workington, Cumberland, three days alter the battle, says she rode sixty miles across country the first day :-“ It is,” she writes with touching ...
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... Galloway, and joined in the engagement against St. John. Barbour writes of “ A knight that then was on his rout, Worthy and wight, stalwart and stout; Courteous and fair, and of good fame, Sir Alan Cathcart was his name.” The wife of a ...
... Galloway, and joined in the engagement against St. John. Barbour writes of “ A knight that then was on his rout, Worthy and wight, stalwart and stout; Courteous and fair, and of good fame, Sir Alan Cathcart was his name.” The wife of a ...
Page 61
... Galloway; and William Mure of Caldwell, afterwards a Baron of Exchequer. "Ah! that Baron Mure," threatened the Duchess of Douglas on one occasion, and, shaking her dainty little fist in the air, as if in the face of the guardian of her ...
... Galloway; and William Mure of Caldwell, afterwards a Baron of Exchequer. "Ah! that Baron Mure," threatened the Duchess of Douglas on one occasion, and, shaking her dainty little fist in the air, as if in the face of the guardian of her ...
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... Galloway as representing the Royal House, and establish the claim of Castlemilk, which the author came to represent, there is much collateral information concerning successive generations of Stewarts of Darnley, Lennox, and Aubigny ...
... Galloway as representing the Royal House, and establish the claim of Castlemilk, which the author came to represent, there is much collateral information concerning successive generations of Stewarts of Darnley, Lennox, and Aubigny ...
Contents
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CUMBERHAULD Hovsn AND THE ELPHINSTONES | 195 |
GLASGOW CHAMBER or COMMERCE | 206 |
OLD GLASGOW HOUSES | 213 |
THE SPREULLS 0F GLASGOW | 221 |
ANDREW MELVILLE IN Gmscow | 227 |
GRAHAM OF THE MINT | 238 |
THE RENFREWSHIRE WITCHES | 278 |
PAISLEY ABBEY _ | 284 |
PAISLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL | 290 |
ALEXANDER WILSON ORNITHOLOGIST | 299 |
TIIII BARNS or AYR | 306 |
THE HERRIES PEERAGE | 315 |
DRUMLANRIG AND THE DOUGLASBS | 324 |
ST COLUMBA I I | 335 |
GENERAL ROY or CARLUKE | 250 |
KILMARNOCK | 256 |
DUMFRIES ROOD FAIR | 265 |
LEADHILLS AND WANLOCK | 343 |
INVERKIP ro Wasr KILBRIDE | 353 |
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