Culross and Tulliallan
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ISBN13: 9780217816410
Paperback|9780217816410
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: or the Parliament. The idea of a State Church being an injustice, or that it was not the necessary duty of a magistracy to give it countenance and support both on Sundays and week-days, would have been something absolutely incomprehensible to our forefathers. Here do we find the magistrates of Culross taking care that the physical wants of their spiritual coadjutors shall be properly supplied: ? 26 Augwt 1698. The same day the magistrates and toune councill being convened, and being declared and represented to the toune councill thatt Mr George Mair is, upon Wednesday next, to be placed in the church of Culross, minister of the Gospel conjunct with Brae, i and for that effect the presbitrie is to be here present; and the magistrats and toune councill, taking to ther consideration, and found it necessare that ane dinner be provyditt against thatt day, therfor be pluralitie of voices hes ordered the dinner be mead readie in John Measone's hous. Of this date?29th May 1699?we find an order regarding quartering, ?an institution still maintained, and doubtless very vexatious, but free from the terrorism that had been its general concomitant in the days of Charles and James. In subsequent times the quartering of soldiers was regarded by certain towns ?at least by certain traders within them?as rather conducive than otherwise to their interests. It is recorded of a provost of Linlithgow in bygone days, who exercised the profession of a brewer, that as a reward for his exertions in forwarding the cause ofthe political party in power, he received a guarantee that the town would never want a company of soldiers to drink his liquor and fill his pockets. It must be said that the presence of such guests was frequently most unfavourable to the morals of the places in which they wer...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217816410 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021781641X |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $21.05 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 308 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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