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 11
... (afterwards Viscount Melville) was leaving the Home Office to take up the duties of War Secretary, which he held for seven eventful years; a nephew, Robert of Amiston, before referred to, was Lord-Advocate, anxious, it may be, concerning ...
... (afterwards Viscount Melville) was leaving the Home Office to take up the duties of War Secretary, which he held for seven eventful years; a nephew, Robert of Amiston, before referred to, was Lord-Advocate, anxious, it may be, concerning ...
Page 12
... afterwards Baron Hume, nephew of the historian ; and the whip, instead of being applied to his own back, was laid with inimitable cleverness on the shoulders of most of the grave “Fifteen,” who then looked down on the bar from the bench ...
... afterwards Baron Hume, nephew of the historian ; and the whip, instead of being applied to his own back, was laid with inimitable cleverness on the shoulders of most of the grave “Fifteen,” who then looked down on the bar from the bench ...
Page 15
... afterwards laid out in a style so exquisite as to make it difficult to say whether the tasteful fittings of the house corresponds more with the fabric than the winding walks and flowery parterres do with the exquisite scenery bordering ...
... afterwards laid out in a style so exquisite as to make it difficult to say whether the tasteful fittings of the house corresponds more with the fabric than the winding walks and flowery parterres do with the exquisite scenery bordering ...
Page 28
... afterwards sworn to as in the handwriting of Auchinleck. A hostile meeting thereafter took place on 26th March, 1822, on the farm of Auchtertool, Fifeshire, when John Douglas, brother to the Marquis of Queensberry, acted as second to ...
... afterwards sworn to as in the handwriting of Auchinleck. A hostile meeting thereafter took place on 26th March, 1822, on the farm of Auchtertool, Fifeshire, when John Douglas, brother to the Marquis of Queensberry, acted as second to ...
Page 29
... afterwards Robert 11., by marrying Elizabeth Mure, under a dispensation from Holy Mother Church, made her the maternal head of the whole Royal race of Stewart. Withoutmakingany pretensions to be the parent stem of this ancient family ...
... afterwards Robert 11., by marrying Elizabeth Mure, under a dispensation from Holy Mother Church, made her the maternal head of the whole Royal race of Stewart. Withoutmakingany pretensions to be the parent stem of this ancient family ...
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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