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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… to the presbytery of Dornoch and synod of Sutherland and Caithness; patrons, the Crown and the Duke of Sutherland. The … sheriff-principal of Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness, in the reign of Alexander II. Among the many … distance, are seen the sable mountains of Sutherland and Caithness. The Bin hill, bordering upon the parish, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Belrinnes on the west, and, on the north-west, of the Caithness hills, and part of the Moray Frith and of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… was an episcopal city, the residence of the bishops of Caithness, within whose province the county of Sutherland was … the church, in which, upon his decease in 1245, at Caithness, where the bishops had also a residence, a statue … poisoned at Helmsdale, at the instigation of the Earl of Caithness, Mc Kay of Far, taking advantage of the minority of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the bishopric of the Isles, and afterwards to the see of Caithness, which he held till the Revolution, are among the … DUNBEATH, a hamlet, in the parish of Latheron, county of Caithness, 20 miles (S. W.) from Wick; containing 40 … a township, in the parish of Canisbay, county of Caithness, 9 miles (N. by E.) from Keiss; containing 302 …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Dunnet DUNNET, a sea-port and parish, in the county of Caithness, 9 miles (E. N. E.) from Thurso; containing 1880 … affairs of the parish are under the presbytery of Caithness and synod of Sutherland and Caithness; patron, Sir James Colquhoun, Bart. The stipend of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Those who have commodious boats go for herrings to the Caithness coast, but large quantities are taken at home in … to the presbytery of Tongue and synod of Sutherland and Caithness; patron, the Crown. The stipend is 158, of which …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and the Angus, Aberdeenshire, and Mearnshire Clubs, the Caithness, Lanark, and Northern Islands' Associations, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Orkney, who, about the year 930, made himself master of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross, and Moray, in the southern part …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… King. The assise, Andrew Earl of Rothes, George earl of Caithness, Gilbert earl of Cassillis. Lord John Hamilton … the said dittay," and by their chancellor George earl of Caithness protested that no evidence in its support had been … Huntly, Cassillis, Morton, Sutherland, Rothes, Glencairn, Caithness"Eglinton subscribed not, but slippid away." …