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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Upper ward of the county of Lanark, 6 miles (S. W.) from Biggar; containing 122 inhabitants. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Clyde, and on the road from Biggar to Roberton. The place was formerly a market-town, a … Rutherglen, and Lanark; the towns of Hamilton, Douglas, Biggar, Strathaven, Carnwath, Bothwell, Airdrie, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… value of the parish is 4730. It is in the presbytery of Biggar and synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, and in the … are in the village of Linton, 11 miles (N. E. by N.) from Biggar. This parish, the name whereof is derived from the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… seal without delay, and also this writ. Witness myself at Biggar, 6 October, in the fourth year of our reign.' Virtute …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20 years at 7 s. 8 d. a year, the lessees including the Biggar family (from c. 1585) and the Southams (in the 18th …
Survey of London
… yet to emerge as a social philosopher, and William Biggar, editor of the Railway Times, recorded here in the …
London and Middlesex Exchequer Equity Pleadings, 1685-6 and 1784-5
… 26 E 112/1705 Further answer. Filing date. 251. Horton v Biggar P: (1) John Shadwell Horton esq., Bedford St., Covent Garden, London. D: (1) Robert Biggar, wholesale draper, London, d2's partner; (2) John …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… expected from the North, those of the West were to meet at Biggar. The men of Nithsdale, Galloway and the parts …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… held conferences with his followers before the battle of Biggar. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… parish, in the county of Peebles, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Biggar; containing 345 inhabitants, of whom 75 are in the … some parts rising into hills of inconsiderable height. The Biggar water, which skirts the parish for some distance on … many of the premiums awarded at the annual exhibition of Biggar have been adjudged to the farmers of this place. Few …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… It is bounded on the east and west by the Lyne and Biggar waters, and comprises 12,583 acres, of which 1255 are … seven miles, and in its course receives the waters of the Biggar and the Lyne; the Stobo burn has its rise near the …