The Town of Paisley: Historical SketchDaily express, 1878 - 129 pages |
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... Cart was clear crystal , its pools full of salmon ; No prison held thieves then , no Bailies talked gammon ; The monks were all jolly , the folks all contented ; Though their cash might be scanty , they thought ere they spent it . " In ...
... Cart was clear crystal , its pools full of salmon ; No prison held thieves then , no Bailies talked gammon ; The monks were all jolly , the folks all contented ; Though their cash might be scanty , they thought ere they spent it . " In ...
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... Cart overflowed its banks , and we may judge to what extent from the following record of the Clyde " There was ane great speat in Clyde , the 25 day of November , 1454 , the quilk brocht doun hail housis , bernes , and millis , and put ...
... Cart overflowed its banks , and we may judge to what extent from the following record of the Clyde " There was ane great speat in Clyde , the 25 day of November , 1454 , the quilk brocht doun hail housis , bernes , and millis , and put ...
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... Cart ; thence along the river to the Abbey . The regality granted to Abbot George was the fullest given to the monastery . It gave the power of trying for all offences what- ever , even including the four crimes generally reserved by ...
... Cart ; thence along the river to the Abbey . The regality granted to Abbot George was the fullest given to the monastery . It gave the power of trying for all offences what- ever , even including the four crimes generally reserved by ...
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... Cart was so chocked with weeds that the Town Council resolved that it should be weeded " from the Kirkford of Inchinnan up to the Snawdoun Yaird head . " The Cart dues at that time were for each " gavert laiding on the Snawdoun 6s 8d ...
... Cart was so chocked with weeds that the Town Council resolved that it should be weeded " from the Kirkford of Inchinnan up to the Snawdoun Yaird head . " The Cart dues at that time were for each " gavert laiding on the Snawdoun 6s 8d ...
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... Cart was considered necessary . To enable them to carry out these undertakings , an Act of Parliament was obtained , empowering the Magistrates to levy for a period of 31 years two pennies Scots upon every pint of ale and beer brewed ...
... Cart was considered necessary . To enable them to carry out these undertakings , an Act of Parliament was obtained , empowering the Magistrates to levy for a period of 31 years two pennies Scots upon every pint of ale and beer brewed ...
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Abbey Abbot Abercorn appointed Bailies Baillie and Council Barr & M'Nab Barrhead bell boats Brown building built burgesses burgh called Campbell Canal Cart Causeyside cholera Church City of Glasgow Clyde coach Coats Cochran CONTRIBUTED BY J. W. C. County Craig Cross death died Dunoon Earl Edinburgh Elderslie erected feet Foxbar Gavin Stewart Glasgow Bank Gleniffer Braes Gourock Greenock HISTORICAL SKETCH horse hour inhabitants James John Johnstone Joseph Whitehead July Kelburne Kerr Kilbarchan King kirk Lady Brisbane Lady Kelburne Lord magistrates manufacture meeting Messrs Barr Miss morning named Neilston o'clock Paslay passengers Peter Coats population pounds Scots Presbytery prisoners Provost quhilk race received Renfrew Renfrew Railway Renfrewshire river Robert Saint Mirin sall Scotland Scots Sheriff Sneddon Spiers steamer steeple Stewart stones Stranraer subscriptions taken tion Tolbooth took place Town Council TOWN OF PAISLEY unemployed William Wynd