A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830

Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Adam Adam Ferguson agricultural areas became become began burgesses burghs of barony cattle cent Church of Scotland clan common contemporary cottars cotton council countryside court craftsmen cultural cultural golden age decades Dundee Earl early East Lothian economic Edinburgh eighteenth century England English estates factory farm farmers Fife Gaelic gentry Glasgow guild half hand handloom Highland Hume husbandry important improvement industrial revolution instance James John Joseph Black king kirk kirk-session labour lairds landed classes landowners later less linen lived Lord Lothian Lowlands manufacture merchants middle class ministers nineteenth century organised Paisley Parliament partly peasants perhaps period Perth Perthshire political poor population potatoes Presbyterian puritanism Reformation religious rent royal burghs runrig rural Scots servants seventeenth century social tenants textile towns trade tradition Union universities wages weavers William witches workers