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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Craig-Millar Castle, the Moorfoot, Lammermoor, and Pentland hills, with the city of Edinburgh, and the Frith of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and extensive that can be imagined, embracing the whole Pentland Frith, the Orkney islands, the German Sea, the Moray …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… east by Cannisbay, and on the north and north-west by the Pentland Frith, into which projects the extensive promontory … of Dunsyre forms in this parish the termination of the Pentland hills, a range extending for nearly twenty miles … to by vessels unable to double Cape Wrath or enter the Pentland Frith. There are several islands off the coast, of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… check the negotiation. Cromwell encamped his troops on the Pentland hills, within a few miles of Edinburgh; the Scots, … reservoir has also been constructed in a valley among the Pentland hills, for the supply of the different mills and … with hills, of which the two principal ranges are the Pentland and the Moorfoot: the former, a continuation from …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… it shall be this night or to-morrow. Coventry. Signed: G. Shrowesbury; H. Huntyngdon. 1 pp. Addressed: "To the … and minded to pass to Carlisle. Coventry. Signed: G. Shrowesbury, H. Huntingdon. p. Addressed Indorsed (by … I trust the Queen's ships will be "laith" to permitor by Pentland Firth and the north isles of this realm, "qlk viage …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… in his Majesty's Regiment of Guards in Scotland and was at Pentland Hills against the rebels there and had the command …
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh
… Dene of Gild, that he is to be chargit with in anno J m v c liij, and his enteres wes quarto Octobris, anno J m v c lij do: The Pece Silver gottin be procuratioun in the … iiij d Item, William Darling, vj s viij d Item, Alexander Pentland, v li Item, Johnne Gibsoun, v li Johnne Thane, v li …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the highly-cultivated plains of the Lothians, the Pentland hills, and castle of Edinburgh, with the Frith of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… G'Aasker Isle - Glasford G G'aasker Isle G'AASKER ISLE, in the parish of Harris, county … 164 inhabitants. It is situated on the shore of the Pentland Frith, nearly opposite the island of Stroma, and at …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… at Gresham College, to enjoy his emoluments while with Sir J. Finch at Constantinople Baker, Giles, chapter clerk of … Stevenson, seamen blown up in the Forester Boghall. See Pentland. Boighall, See Moynes Bolton, Lieut. Lancelot … of Two most strange and wonderful Prophets, the, by J.G. Ussher, Works of Book containing the transactions in Sir …