The Town of Paisley: Historical SketchDaily express, 1878 - 129 pages |
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... Lady Cochran , and ask her ladyship not to do anything unad- visedly . The deputation met with an unfavour- able reception . Whilst negotiations were pending a certain John Wilson and his wife sought and obtained liberty from Lady ...
... Lady Cochran , and ask her ladyship not to do anything unad- visedly . The deputation met with an unfavour- able reception . Whilst negotiations were pending a certain John Wilson and his wife sought and obtained liberty from Lady ...
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... Lady Blantyre took a parcel of it to Bath , where she sold it to manufacturers for the making of lace . ' Having got information of the manufacture of thread as carried on in Holland , Christian Shaw , as we shall still name her ...
... Lady Blantyre took a parcel of it to Bath , where she sold it to manufacturers for the making of lace . ' Having got information of the manufacture of thread as carried on in Holland , Christian Shaw , as we shall still name her ...
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... lady and gentleman tra- velled together , the lady sat on a pad behind the gentleman . " " " Light to the croup his fair lady he swung , " " And light to the saddle before her he sprung . " Every country house and inn had its " loupin ...
... lady and gentleman tra- velled together , the lady sat on a pad behind the gentleman . " " " Light to the croup his fair lady he swung , " " And light to the saddle before her he sprung . " Every country house and inn had its " loupin ...
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... lady say that she remembers her father telling her mother that he " wadna gang to the kirk wi ' her if she carried that puddock - stool aboon her head . " In 1790 , muslin was the principal manufac ture ; the silk manufacture being ...
... lady say that she remembers her father telling her mother that he " wadna gang to the kirk wi ' her if she carried that puddock - stool aboon her head . " In 1790 , muslin was the principal manufac ture ; the silk manufacture being ...
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... Lady Stewart , £ 50 . Sir Robert C. Pollok , Bart . , of Upper Pollok , £ 50 . Col. Mure of Caldwell , £ 50 . William Carlile & Co. , £ 20 . Thomas Whitehead , £ 10 . James Carlile , £ 10 . Rev. P. Brewster , £ 10 . Provost Farquharson ...
... Lady Stewart , £ 50 . Sir Robert C. Pollok , Bart . , of Upper Pollok , £ 50 . Col. Mure of Caldwell , £ 50 . William Carlile & Co. , £ 20 . Thomas Whitehead , £ 10 . James Carlile , £ 10 . Rev. P. Brewster , £ 10 . Provost Farquharson ...
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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