The Statistical Accounts of Scotland

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The Statistical Accounts of Scotland

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Fascinating 18th- and 19th-century Scottish parish reports. We tweet news about our service and all things #ScottishHistory.

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@SharadPandian If you click on the link and go to the Statistical Accounts section, click on 'Sir John Sinclair’s questions to ministers, 25th May 1790. (Sent to ministers compiling the OSA parish reports)' if you want to see the questions. However, you need to be a subscriber to see these.
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#OnThisDay #OTD in 1631 Sir Michael Preston of Fenton "was immediately apprehended, tried before the Justiciary court on 15th February, convicted and beheaded at the Cross of Edinburgh the same or the next day." What was his crime? Find out below. #statacc
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#OnThisDay in 1568 "the governments of the Regent Morton was driven to the miserable shift of passing an act of council for stripping the lead from the cathedral churches of Aberdeen and Elgin, and selling it to pay the troops." #statacc [Elgin Cathedral: Neil Parley [CC BY 3.0]]
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"About the year 1449, Miss Martha Wishart, only daughter of the laird of Mireton, a lady of great beauty and accomplishments, fell deeply in #love with Mr Peter Beaton, at that time priest of Tullibody." Read what happened below. #statacc #folklorethursday
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#OnThisDay 1599 "there is an order from the King and secret council for allowing the magistrates of Perth to take stones out of the quarry of Pittheaveless for repairing the Bridge of Tay, on payment of fifty merks yearly, until it be finished." #statacc bit.ly/2HWqGRm
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#OTD in 1489 there was a skirmish (Battle of Tullimoss) between James IV. and the Earl of Lennox to the NW of the Lake of Monteith. "The Sovereign in person, with Lord Drummond as his Commander-in-Chief, attacked Lennox unexpectedly." [Photo credit: University of Aberdeen]
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