The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 8

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W. Creech, 1793
 

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Page 158 - Canisbay, on the side of the Pentland Firth; and each of them obtained an equal share of the property they acquired. In process of time their families increased, and there came to be eight different proprietors of the name of Groat, who possessed these lands...
Page 158 - ... question arose, respecting the right of taking the door, and sitting at the head of the table, and such like points of precedency (each contending for the seniority, and chieftainship of the clan), which increased to such a height, as would probably have proved fatal in its consequences to some, if not all of them, had not John de Groat, who was proprietor of the ferry, interposed.
Page 267 - There is a remarkable byelaw of this community, made in io"95, which the members of couiit.il must annually take an oath to observe. By it they bind themselves to take no lease of any part of the public property under their management, nor to purchase any part of it ; neither to receive any gratification out of the public funds under pretence of a reward for their trouble in going about the affairs of the borough, or of the hospitals founded in it.
Page 159 - Groat, to fulfil his engagement, built a room, distinct by itself, of an octagon shape, with eight doors and windows in it ; and having placed in the middle a...
Page 158 - He assured them, that, as soon as they appeared to split and quarrel among themselves, their neighhours, who till then had treated them with respect, would fall upon them, take their property from them, and expel them from the country ; he, therefore conjured them, by the ties of blood, and their mutual...
Page 337 - Reformation, when the innocent were involved with the guilty in the sufferings of the times, their house was supprest, and the temporalities granted to Hay, the abbot of Inchaffrey, who, abjuring his former tenets of religion, embraced the cause of the reformers...
Page 159 - ... sit at the head of the table ; he taking himself the seat that was left unoccupied. By this ingenious contrivance, any dispute in regard to rank was prevented, as they all found themselves on a footing of equality, and their former harmony and good humour were restored.
Page 405 - But what Bala is moft famous for is the beauty of its women, and indeed I there faw fome of the prettieft girls I ever beheld. The lake produces very fine trout, and a fifh called whiting, peculiar to itfelf, and of fo delicate a tafte, that I believe you would prefer the flavour of it to the lips of the fair maids of Bala.
Page 157 - Caithness, from the south of Scotland, bringing with them a letter written in Latin by that prince, recommending them to the countenance and protection of his loving subjects in the county 1 of Caithness.
Page 219 - ... and without 40. The length of the nave was 120 feet, its height 63, its breadth 40, and the breadth of each of its ailes 30.

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