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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... STUART 0F TORRANcE AND CASTLEMILK, . . . . . I 59 THE LOLLARDS 0F KYLE, . . . . . . . . . . . 65 THE EARL 0F EGLINTON SHOT BY A POAcHER, . . . . . . 7: CARNWATH AND THE LOCKHARTS OF LEE, . . . . . . . 77 DALRYMPLE AND THE STAIRS ...
... STUART 0F TORRANcE AND CASTLEMILK, . . . . . I 59 THE LOLLARDS 0F KYLE, . . . . . . . . . . . 65 THE EARL 0F EGLINTON SHOT BY A POAcHER, . . . . . . 7: CARNWATH AND THE LOCKHARTS OF LEE, . . . . . . . 77 DALRYMPLE AND THE STAIRS ...
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... (Stuart) and Craignethan, then occupied by the infirm Earl of Arran, third of the name, whose reason had become affected by the Queen's refusal to accept him for a husband. Unlike most of the other members of his family, he was in early ...
... (Stuart) and Craignethan, then occupied by the infirm Earl of Arran, third of the name, whose reason had become affected by the Queen's refusal to accept him for a husband. Unlike most of the other members of his family, he was in early ...
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... Stuart, W.S., younger, of Dunearn. The most offensive was in the form of a Whig song, “supposed to be written by one of the Jameses, certainly not by King James I. or King James V., but probably by one of the house of Stuart.” A few of ...
... Stuart, W.S., younger, of Dunearn. The most offensive was in the form of a Whig song, “supposed to be written by one of the Jameses, certainly not by King James I. or King James V., but probably by one of the house of Stuart.” A few of ...
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... Stuart. The principals stood at twelve paces distant. The Earl of Rosslyn gave the word, and the parties fired, when Sir Alexander received Mr. Stuart's ball in the right shoulder, which broke the clavicle of the bone and injured the ...
... Stuart. The principals stood at twelve paces distant. The Earl of Rosslyn gave the word, and the parties fired, when Sir Alexander received Mr. Stuart's ball in the right shoulder, which broke the clavicle of the bone and injured the ...
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... STUART 0F TORRANCE AND CASTLEMILK. PROMINENT as he was in his day, influential too, and useful withal, Andrew Stuart of Torrance almost requires a process of ... STUART 0F TORRANCE AND casualter 59 ANDREW STUART 0F TORRANcE AND CASTLEMILK, I.
... STUART 0F TORRANCE AND CASTLEMILK. PROMINENT as he was in his day, influential too, and useful withal, Andrew Stuart of Torrance almost requires a process of ... STUART 0F TORRANCE AND casualter 59 ANDREW STUART 0F TORRANcE AND CASTLEMILK, I.
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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