The Town of Paisley: Historical SketchDaily express, 1878 - 129 pages |
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... death of Alex . III . in 1286 , was fraught with great calamity to Scotland . His grand- daughter was heiress , but she was only six years of age , and in Norway . Several competitors , therefore , laid claim to the Scottish Crown . To ...
... death of Alex . III . in 1286 , was fraught with great calamity to Scotland . His grand- daughter was heiress , but she was only six years of age , and in Norway . Several competitors , therefore , laid claim to the Scottish Crown . To ...
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... death and birth took place . This monument was called Queen Blearie's Cross . " The wife of the Steward , how- ever , never was Queen , but the fact of her son having been afterwards King Robert II . may have given rise to the mistake ...
... death and birth took place . This monument was called Queen Blearie's Cross . " The wife of the Steward , how- ever , never was Queen , but the fact of her son having been afterwards King Robert II . may have given rise to the mistake ...
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... death of Murray , the Arch- bishop returned , and , finding " only a boy that hed the key of the yeit , " took possession of the Abbey Mansion - house . Then the Abbey en- dured a siege ; and , on its falling into the hands of the ...
... death of Murray , the Arch- bishop returned , and , finding " only a boy that hed the key of the yeit , " took possession of the Abbey Mansion - house . Then the Abbey en- dured a siege ; and , on its falling into the hands of the ...
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... death . The devil was supposed , then , to communicate the form he was to assume when he appeared to them as a gentleman in black with a cold hand , the form of a cat , or some other beast . The witches were said to receive little imps ...
... death . The devil was supposed , then , to communicate the form he was to assume when he appeared to them as a gentleman in black with a cold hand , the form of a cat , or some other beast . The witches were said to receive little imps ...
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... death previously in Ireland , but it was said that , when the hangman was about to cast her over the gallows , the Devil caught her away out of sight . No such intervention took place at her execution in Paisley , but when she was cast ...
... death previously in Ireland , but it was said that , when the hangman was about to cast her over the gallows , the Devil caught her away out of sight . No such intervention took place at her execution in Paisley , but when she was cast ...
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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