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 38
... mentioned (1762), Francis, Fifth Lord Napier, employed two surveyors to examine the ground from Carron at- Abbotshaugh, about two miles from the place where that river discharges itself into the Forth, to the Clyde at Yoker Burn, about ...
... mentioned (1762), Francis, Fifth Lord Napier, employed two surveyors to examine the ground from Carron at- Abbotshaugh, about two miles from the place where that river discharges itself into the Forth, to the Clyde at Yoker Burn, about ...
Page 40
... mentioned year, when the Clyde shipping was over 60,000 tons, thirtyeight Glasgow firms imported the unprecedented quantity of 43,970 hogsheads (over 35,000 from Virginia), and, with stock-on-hand, were able to export to France, Holland ...
... mentioned year, when the Clyde shipping was over 60,000 tons, thirtyeight Glasgow firms imported the unprecedented quantity of 43,970 hogsheads (over 35,000 from Virginia), and, with stock-on-hand, were able to export to France, Holland ...
Page 41
... mentioned, removed from his pleasant residence at Whitehill to the more spacious Shawlands mansion in Argyll Street. It had been built in 1712 by Daniel Campbell of Shawfield, M.P. for the Clyde Burghs 1716-1734., and sacked by the mob ...
... mentioned, removed from his pleasant residence at Whitehill to the more spacious Shawlands mansion in Argyll Street. It had been built in 1712 by Daniel Campbell of Shawfield, M.P. for the Clyde Burghs 1716-1734., and sacked by the mob ...
Page 43
... mentioned above, at the Welwyn Assembly. In the novel of " Castle Rackrent," the Edgeworths published many interesting particulars regarding the harsh treatment of Lady Cathcart by Colonel Macguire. She appears to have survived her ...
... mentioned above, at the Welwyn Assembly. In the novel of " Castle Rackrent," the Edgeworths published many interesting particulars regarding the harsh treatment of Lady Cathcart by Colonel Macguire. She appears to have survived her ...
Page 45
... mentioned as son of the seventh Earl, by Elizabeth Dalrymple, second daughter of James, first Viscount Stair, and Margaret Ross of Balneil, Wigtownshire, the reputed original of Scott's Lady Ashton, mother of the “Bride of Lammermoor ...
... mentioned as son of the seventh Earl, by Elizabeth Dalrymple, second daughter of James, first Viscount Stair, and Margaret Ross of Balneil, Wigtownshire, the reputed original of Scott's Lady Ashton, mother of the “Bride of Lammermoor ...
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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