History of the County of Fife: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 3J. Swan, 1840 |
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History of the County of Fife: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Band 2 James Stewart,Joseph Swan,John M Leighton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acres afterwards Alexander ancient annual value annum Anstruther Archbishop attended Auchterderran Balfour Baronet barony belonging bishop bolls breadth brother Bruce castle century chapel Charles charter chiefly employed coal coast College Crail crown Culdees Cupar descended Dundee Dunfermline Dysart Earl Earl of Fife east East Wemyss Edinburgh eldest erected Erskine feet Fife firlots Firth glebe harbour heir inhabitants Kemback Kilrenny Kincaple King Kinghorn Kinglassie Kirkaldy lands Largo Leuchars Leven Lindsay lippies Lord Lundin Malcolm Malcolm IV males manse manufactures Markinch Melville miles mill minister monastery number of families parish parish church parliament pecks Pittenweem population portion possess present incumbent present proprietor Raith reign residence Robert royal burgh Scotland Scots Scottish Session shore Sibbald Sir David Sir James Sir John situated sold St Andrews sterling stipend stone succeeded Terras templarias town trade valued rent village Wemyss William William the Lyon
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Seite 36 - ... men and three yeomen chosen to shoot against the English-men, to wit, David Wemyss of that ilk, David Arnot of that ilk, and Mr. John Wedderburn, vicar of Dundee; the yeomen, John Thomson, in Leith, Steven Taburner, with a piper, called Alexander Bailie; they shot very near, and warred [worsted] the English-men of the enterprise, and wan the hundred crowns and the tun of wine, which made the king very merry that his men wan the victory.
Seite 138 - Andrew laughing at him for it, he did beat him twice with a stafe ; he confest also, that he had spoken very ill words concerning his brothers, and particularly he challenged his eldest brother John to a combate, as he called it, of...
Seite 31 - One of its streets is now lost; and in those that remain, there is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation.
Seite 138 - Alexander Selcraig, according to the session's appointment, compeared before the pulpit, and made acknowledgment of his sin in disagreeing with his brothers, and was rebuked in the face of the congregation for it, and promised amendment in the strength of the Lord, and so was dismissed.
Seite 245 - Sainct Coomes Ins, which standeth a iiii mile beyond Lieth, and a good way ner at the north shore than the south, yet not within a mile of the nerest. It is but half a myle about, and hath in it a pretty abbey (but ye monks were gone), fresh water enough, and also coonyes; and is so naturally strong, as but one way it can be entered. The plot whearof my Lordes Grace considering, did quickly cast to have it kept, whearby all traffik of merchandise, all commodities els...
Seite 172 - ... the same mode of transportation, conveyed him to Leith sands, and set down the astonished judge on the very spot where he had taken him up. The joy of his friends, and the less agreeable surprise of his successor, may be easily conceived, when he appeared in court, to reclaim his office and honours. All embraced his own persuasion, that he had been spirited away by witchcraft ; nor could he himself be convinced of the contrary, until, many years afterwards, happening to travel in Annandale, his...
Seite 120 - An account of the affairs of Scotland, relating to the revolution in 1688.
Seite 162 - The Scottish surname of Wemyss, from the Gaelic word uamh, a cave, was derived from lands now forming the parish of that name in Fifeshire, appropriately so called from the number of caves in the rocks on the seashore there. These lands are said to have been part of the estate of MacDuff, the famous mormaor, or, as Shakespeare styles him, ' Thane ' of Fife, in the reign of Malcolm Canmore. Gillimichael, the third in descent from MacDuff, gave to his second son, Hugo, with other lands, the lands...
Seite 172 - Accordingly, he entered the vault at the dead of night, seized the president, muffled him once more into the cloak, without speaking• a single word ; and using the same mode of transportation, conveyed him to Leith sands, and set down the astonished judge on the very spot where he had taken him up. The joy of his friends, and the less agreeable surprise of his successor, may be easily conceived, when the president appeared in court to reclaim his office and honours.
Seite 172 - Meanwhile, the poor president spent a heavy time in the vault of the castle. He was imprisoned, and solitary ; receiving his food through an aperture in the wall, and never hearing the sound of a human voice, save when a shepherd called his dog, by the name of Batty, and when a female domestic called upon Maudge, the cat. These, he concluded, were invocations of spirits ; for he held himself to be in the dungeon of a sorcerer.