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Portrait of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, and His Family, by John Smybert (1688–1751). The family in early modern Scotland includes all aspects of kinship and family life, between the Renaissance and the Reformation of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century in Scotland.
His father-in-law Bishop Gordon, at his death in September 1619, left to Gordon the task of publishing his works, in English and Latin. [2]Gordon's Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland, from its Origin to the year 1630 (with a continuation to 1651 by Gilbert Gordon of Sallach) was edited by Henry William Weber from the original manuscript held by the Marchioness of Stafford, later ...
Pages in category "17th-century Scottish people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 243 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
With economic stagnation since the late 17th century, which was particularly acute in 1704, the country depended more and more heavily on sales of cattle and linen to England, who used this to create pressure for a union. [144] [145] The Scottish parliament voted on 6 January 1707, by 110 to 69, to adopt the Treaty of Union. It was also a full ...
Robert Corse (or Cross) of Corse (1639–1705) was a 17th-century Scottish merchant who traded sugar and tobacco in Glasgow and was a Baillie and Dean of Guild of the City Council. He lost a fortune due to his involvement in the Company of Scotland .
Although sources are limited, Scotland may have had a higher infant mortality rate than England, [1] where rates were higher than in many modern Third-World countries, with 160 children in 1,000 dying in their first year. [2] There was considerable concern over the safety of mother and child in birth. [3]
Scotland in the early modern period refers, for the purposes of this article, to Scotland between the death of James IV in 1513 and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century. It roughly corresponds to the early modern period in Europe , beginning with the Renaissance and Reformation and ending with the start of the ...
William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland, previously named William Gordon, 17th Earl of Sutherland, [1] (2 October 1708 – 1750), was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 until 1733 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Sutherland. He was chief of the Clan Sutherland, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands.