The New Statistical Account of Scotland: List of parishes. EdinburghW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 |
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Pagina 5
... Church of Scotland , which , however , he did not live to finish . His monument , lately renewed , is placed on the tower of the church . The Rev. Thomas Whyte , who wrote the account , to which we have already referred , must have been ...
... Church of Scotland , which , however , he did not live to finish . His monument , lately renewed , is placed on the tower of the church . The Rev. Thomas Whyte , who wrote the account , to which we have already referred , must have been ...
Pagina 8
... church of Liberton were church lands , and termed Vicar's Acres . They are so denominated in the entail of Mr Little of Liberton . To the east of St Catherine's there is a rising ground formerly called Priest Hill , now Grace Mount ...
... church of Liberton were church lands , and termed Vicar's Acres . They are so denominated in the entail of Mr Little of Liberton . To the east of St Catherine's there is a rising ground formerly called Priest Hill , now Grace Mount ...
Pagina 10
... church of Liber- ton , in consequence of the Revolution , and preached his first ser- mon there , May 29 , 1689. He was soon translated to White- kirk , and afterwards to Edinburgh . 12. Mr Gideon Jaque from Ireland succeeded him , and ...
... church of Liber- ton , in consequence of the Revolution , and preached his first ser- mon there , May 29 , 1689. He was soon translated to White- kirk , and afterwards to Edinburgh . 12. Mr Gideon Jaque from Ireland succeeded him , and ...
Pagina 22
... church is , per- haps , upon the whole , as good as any that could be found , although for some parts of the parish it is very inconvenient . Its distance from the northern and western extremities of the parish is only about a mile ...
... church is , per- haps , upon the whole , as good as any that could be found , although for some parts of the parish it is very inconvenient . Its distance from the northern and western extremities of the parish is only about a mile ...
Pagina 23
... Churches . - There is a new church in the parish , erected in connexion with the General Assembly's Church Extension Scheme , for which the people are in a great measure indebted to the zeal of Mr Anderson of Moredun . Several of the ...
... Churches . - There is a new church in the parish , erected in connexion with the General Assembly's Church Extension Scheme , for which the people are in a great measure indebted to the zeal of Mr Anderson of Moredun . Several of the ...
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acres afterwards Alexander amount ancient annual annum appears average number banks barony belonging bolls Borthwick bridge Buccleuch building built burgh Calder Castle chapel charter chiefly coal Colinton common considerable Corstorphine Dalkeith district Douglas Duddingston Duke Duke of Buccleuch Earl east East Calder Edin Edinburgh erected established extent farm feet formed formerly Forrester funds garden Gilmerton Gogar ground heritors Hill improvement inhabitants Inveresk John King kirk kirk-session Kirkliston Kirknewton land Lasswade late Leith Liberton Lord Lothian manse merks miles minister Musselburgh nearly neighbourhood Niddry parish Parliament parochial Penicuik Pentland Pentland hills period persons poor population Presbytery present proprietor quarry Ratho rent residence Restalrig rish road Robert rock royal sandstone Scotland Scots Scottish session side situated Society stipend stone Street teinds tion town town-council village Water of Leith whole William wood
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Pagina 148 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Pagina 463 - His reputation as a poet, great in his own day, low during the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth centuries, has latterly revived.
Pagina 670 - Martinmas during the space aforesaid and afterwards the same shall be wholly applied towards the encouraging and promoting the fisheries and such other manufactures and improvements in Scotland as may most conduce to the general good of the United Kingdom...
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Pagina 628 - The chapter consisted of a provost, curate, sixteen prebendaries, a minister of the choir, four choristers, a sacristan, and beadle ; to each of them distinct salaries were appointed.
Pagina 382 - Galystem;94 is probably the stone mentioned in the Statistical Account: 'A little above it (S. Mary's Church of Stow) is a very fine perennial spring, known by the name of the Lady's Well, and a huge stone, recently removed in forming the new road, but now broken to pieces, used to be pointed out as impressed with the print of the Virgin Mary's foot'.
Pagina 495 - For his uncommon knowledge in classical learning, his indefatigable diligence, and strictness of discipline without severity, Mr John Love was justly accounted one of the most sufficient masters in the country.
Pagina 435 - No memorial remains of the Grahames, unless the fading traditions of the place, and two curious but wasted tombstones, which lie within the circuit of the old church. They represent knights in chain armour, lying cross-legged upon their monuments, like those ancient and curious figures on the tombs in the Temple Church, London.
Pagina 465 - Papers on Iron and Steel, practical and experimental ; a series of original communications made to the Philosophical Magazine, chiefly on those subjects.