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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… an exception being made for those gone to the Orkney and Shetland Isles, on account of the Dutch fishing there (p. …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… be used to destroy the corn and cattle in the Orkney and Shetland islands from which Scotland derived considerable …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… within a few days (No. 188). One raid in particular on the Shetland Islands gave them a considerable amount of booty, …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… and others who contravened the excise laws, but in Shetland they set the officer of customs in the stocks. ( See …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Dutch herring industry the English had a fort built in the Shetland Islands (No. 115). As the tale of prizes mounted up …
Magna Britannia
… the whale-fishery 63; and a ship is lately gone to South Shetland for furs and skins. Trade of the Principal Ports of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain. Intelligence by a bark from Shetland, that a great fleet af monstrous great ships about …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and MUCKLE, islands, in the parish of Delting, county of Shetland; the one containing 11, and the other 214, … St. Magnus' bay, on the western coast of the Mainland of Shetland. The former is of very inconsiderable size, and its …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… an isle, in the parish of Mid and South Yell, county of Shetland; containing 36 inhabitants. It is a small island … SANDSTING and AITHSTING, a parish, in the county of Shetland, 12 miles (W. N. W.) from Lerwick; containing, with … or woman by means of ropes. The land, as in most of those Shetland parishes where agriculture is in a rude state, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the southern part of the parish, near Sheriffhall Mains. Shetland, or Zetland, Islands SHETLAND, or ZETLAND, ISLANDS, forming, with Orkney, a … whom they give that title. Previously to the Reformation, Shetland formed part of the diocese of Orkney; at present it …