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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... appointed for her at the public expense With Mary's residence in France, and her training at the Court of the Guises, little mention need be made here, beyond the brief facts that she married the Dauphin at sixteen (r 558), was Queen of ...
... appointed for her at the public expense With Mary's residence in France, and her training at the Court of the Guises, little mention need be made here, beyond the brief facts that she married the Dauphin at sixteen (r 558), was Queen of ...
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... appointed a Depute-Advocate during the short Grenville Administration of 1806 ; chosen Dean of Faculty in room of Matthew Ross, of Candie, 1823, and in 1826 elevated to the bench on the death of George Fergusson, Lord Hermand, when he ...
... appointed a Depute-Advocate during the short Grenville Administration of 1806 ; chosen Dean of Faculty in room of Matthew Ross, of Candie, 1823, and in 1826 elevated to the bench on the death of George Fergusson, Lord Hermand, when he ...
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... appointed to make inquiry concerning the method and expense of transplanting trees practised by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton. Bowed down as he was by the death of Lady Scott in the summer of the preceding year, pleasing reference is ...
... appointed to make inquiry concerning the method and expense of transplanting trees practised by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton. Bowed down as he was by the death of Lady Scott in the summer of the preceding year, pleasing reference is ...
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... years, when he was appointed Inspector of Factories, which position he held at his death in 1849, aged 74 years. Certain circumstances connected with the above hostile meeting were reproduced by Scott 28 THE WEST COUNTRY IN HISTOR 1'1.
... years, when he was appointed Inspector of Factories, which position he held at his death in 1849, aged 74 years. Certain circumstances connected with the above hostile meeting were reproduced by Scott 28 THE WEST COUNTRY IN HISTOR 1'1.
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... appointed CommanderimChief of the American Continental Army. In October of this eventful year Franklin requested one of his correspondents to inform a common friend that Britain, at an expense of three millions, “has killed 150 Yankees ...
... appointed CommanderimChief of the American Continental Army. In October of this eventful year Franklin requested one of his correspondents to inform a common friend that Britain, at an expense of three millions, “has killed 150 Yankees ...
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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