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[1] 28 June – Forth and Clyde Canal opened. [1] October – Pladda Lighthouse first illuminated. [2] Balblair distillery at Edderton founded. Caerlee Mill at Innerleithen completed, the oldest woollen mill in the Scottish Borders. New Ardkinglas Castle built. Construction of Gosford House to the design of Robert Adam for Francis Wemyss ...
This was the first general election after the law had been changed in 1785 to limit the maximum duration of polling in county elections to fifteen days. Under the old law, the poll could remain open longer. For example, the election for Sussex in 1774 had polls open for 24 days (ignoring Sundays when polling did not take place). It was hoped ...
General View of the Agriculture of the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland: James Macdonald Macdonald advocated the adoption of the potato as a staple of diet. [62] Central Highlands General View of the Agriculture of the Central Highlands of Scotland: 1794 [63] William Marshall: Inverness-shire General View of the Agriculture of the County ...
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A comprehensive survey of Scottish Badges together with some photographs and a list of those held at the National Museum in Edinburgh is in: R. Kerr and J R Lockie, "Scottish Beggar's Badges", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1962), 291-303 (inc. photographs).
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland are a series of documentary publications, related in subject matter though published at different times, covering life in Scotland in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The Old (or First) Statistical Account of Scotland was published between 1791 and 1799 by Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster.
After teaching at Annan Grammar School, he entered the Church of Scotland, being licensed by the Presbytery of Annan in 1746, but not finding a patron. He was finally ordained in 1748, just over the Scottish border in Carlisle , and translated in 1760 to Berwick-upon-Tweed , still just over the Scottish border (the rules on patronage were ...
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