The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 4

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W. Creech, 1792 - Scotland
 

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Page 545 - He had no other needle but a nail, and, when his knife was worn to the back, he made others, as well as he could, of some iron hoops that were left ashore, which he beat thin and ground upon stones. Having some...
Page 513 - ... who feued ground for a house and a yard. Each freedom consisted of four or five acres of croft land parcelled out in all the different parts of the town, with a privilege of keeping a certain number of sheep, cows, and horses on the hill, or common pasture. This little republic was governed by a birley court, in which every proprietor of a freedom had a vote. If the proprietor resided not in the place his tenant voted for him. The great business of the court, which was held weekly, was to determine...
Page 545 - A multitude of rats often disturbed his repose by gnawing his feet and other parts of his body, which induced him to feed a number of cats for his protection. In a...
Page 499 - Palladius' chapel, where, it is said, the image of the saint was kept, and to which pilgrimages were performed from the most distant parts of Scotland. There is a well at the corner of the minister's garden, which goes by the name of Paddy's well.
Page 419 - Matthei at Rome. This is erected at the foot of a wooded bank nigh the Leet, and was intended by Lord Home as a monument in memory of his eldest son, Lord Dunglass, who died in America of the wounds he received in the battle of Cambden. The persons who have distinguished themselves in this...
Page 377 - Majefty and his court may eat and drink ; and that 1 in the mean time, when his Majefty is prefent, the guard ' do diligently attend about the court, and fo foon as his ' Majefty is to go away, that a fign be made to Andrew < Tod, who is appointed to attend the colours on the fteeple ' head, to the effect he may give fign to thofe who attend ' the cannon of his Majefty's departure, and then the haill ' th1rty-f1x cannons to be all fhot at once.
Page 545 - His only needle was a nail. When his knife was worn to the back, he made others as well as he could, of fome iron hoops that had been left on fhore, by beating them thin, and grinding them on ftoncs.
Page 545 - Upon his return, he declared to his friends, that nothing, gave him fo much uneafinefs, as the thoughts, that when he died, his body would be devoured by thofe very cats he had with fo much care tamed and fed. To divert his mind from fuch melancholy thoughts, he would fometimes dance and fing among his kids and goats, at other times retire to his devotion.
Page 572 - Tron weight, or a proportionable quantity of mutton, and a store of herring. This with potatoes, is their food for half the year. For the other half, they live on oatmeal, milk, and sometimes fresh herring. The potatoes, indeed, generally last three-quarters of a year. Such of them as have a milk cow, which most of them have, gather as much dung as enables them to raise a sufficient quantity of this root" (Old Statistical Account, 1792, iv, 572).
Page 445 - The preamble to the charter of erection ftates, as reafons of granting it, the frequent refidence of the Royal Family at the manor of Falkland, and the damage and inconvenience fuftained by the many prelates, peers, barons, nobles, and others of their fubjecls, who came to their country feat, for want of innkeepers and victuallers.

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