 lest fewe yeeres more, as pestilent as the former, will leave fewe good trees standing in those Welds ".3 In Sutherland and Ross-shire, George Hay, one of the most active promoters of early Scottish industry, is said to have " kept a colony and manufactury...  Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Seite 289von Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1887Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Henry Dixon - 1886 - 512 Seiten
..."Sir George Hay kept a colony and manufactory of Englishmen making iron and casting great guns, untill the wood of it was spent and the lease of it expired." The Genealogical Account of the MacRaes tells of " the colony of English which Sir George Hay of Airdry... | |
 | James Moore Swank - 1892 - 614 Seiten
...of Perthshire, was the owner of the furnace. An old manuscript refers to " the woods of Letterewe, where the said George Hay kept a colony and manufactory...of Englishmen making iron and casting great guns, untill the woods of it was spent and the lease of it expired." Pennant, in his Tour in Scotland, (1769,)... | |
 | Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper - 2006 - 470 Seiten
...established ironworks at Letterewe in Ross-shire, and had imported a colony of Englishmen to work in them, 'making iron and casting great guns until the wood of it was spent'. In 1610 he had obtained a gift (afterwards confirmed by Parliament) of the manufacture of iron and... | |
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