The New Statistical Account of Scotland: List of parishes. EdinburghW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 |
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Pagina 41
... prohibited from shooting ; an unhappy arrangement , and one that signally defeats its own . end . The tenantry have no interest in detecting the poacher , and the game - keepers are intimidated , and are consequently PENICUIK . 41.
... prohibited from shooting ; an unhappy arrangement , and one that signally defeats its own . end . The tenantry have no interest in detecting the poacher , and the game - keepers are intimidated , and are consequently PENICUIK . 41.
Pagina 48
... interests of the parish . The In the year 1833 , a number of persons associated themselves to deprive the poor of the profits of the mortcloth dues , though the kirk - session had reduced these to one- fourth nearly of their former ...
... interests of the parish . The In the year 1833 , a number of persons associated themselves to deprive the poor of the profits of the mortcloth dues , though the kirk - session had reduced these to one- fourth nearly of their former ...
Pagina 84
... interest , that the likeness of the Queen is understood in the family to have been executed during her confinement in Lochleven Castle , for George Douglas , who assisted her escape . A few years ago , during the operations consequent ...
... interest , that the likeness of the Queen is understood in the family to have been executed during her confinement in Lochleven Castle , for George Douglas , who assisted her escape . A few years ago , during the operations consequent ...
Pagina 104
... interest of the whole , forms a fund from which sick members are relieved , at the rate of 5s . a week for the first thirteen weeks , 2s . 6d . for the next thirteen , and 1s . 6d . during the remainder of the year . In the event of a ...
... interest of the whole , forms a fund from which sick members are relieved , at the rate of 5s . a week for the first thirteen weeks , 2s . 6d . for the next thirteen , and 1s . 6d . during the remainder of the year . In the event of a ...
Pagina 110
... interest . Craig Lockhart Hill is a fine specimen of basaltic rock , studded with some interesting minerals , as Olivine , Humboldtite , augite , prehnite , with drusy cavities , zeolite , & c . In the bed of the river , immediately ...
... interest . Craig Lockhart Hill is a fine specimen of basaltic rock , studded with some interesting minerals , as Olivine , Humboldtite , augite , prehnite , with drusy cavities , zeolite , & c . In the bed of the river , immediately ...
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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
Populaire passages
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...
Pagina 133 - ... there can be no doubt in the minds of those who are familiar with her condition and her inherent resources.
Pagina 143 - I thought fit to send this Trumpet to you, to let you know, That if you please to walk away with your company, and deliver the House to such as I shall send to receive it, you shall have liberty to carry off your arms and goods, and such other necessaries as you have.
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.