Beyond the Highland Line: Three Journals of Travel in Eighteenth Century Scotland; Burt, Pennant, ThorntonA. J. Youngson Collins, 1974 - 252 Seiten |
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... rents was excessive , or that the rents were already as high as the land could bear ... What seems to have hurt these gentlemen was the idea that the laird , the father of his people , should ever think of any- thing so mercenary as rent ...
... rents was excessive , or that the rents were already as high as the land could bear ... What seems to have hurt these gentlemen was the idea that the laird , the father of his people , should ever think of any- thing so mercenary as rent ...
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... rents most of the island , paying two guineas for each penny - land ; and these he sets to the poor people at four guineas and a half each ; and exacts , besides this , three days labor in the quarter from each person . An- other head ...
... rents most of the island , paying two guineas for each penny - land ; and these he sets to the poor people at four guineas and a half each ; and exacts , besides this , three days labor in the quarter from each person . An- other head ...
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... rents : they were enabled to keep hospitality ; to receive their chieftain with a well covered board ; and to feed a multitude of poor . Many of the greater tacksmen were of the same blood with their chieftains ; they were attached to ...
... rents : they were enabled to keep hospitality ; to receive their chieftain with a well covered board ; and to feed a multitude of poor . Many of the greater tacksmen were of the same blood with their chieftains ; they were attached to ...
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appearance birch boat brought busses called Campbeltown castle cattle chief chieftain clan coast common corn danger distance Dr Johnson eight England farms feet Firth of Clyde fish fishery Fort William four Gannet gentleman Glen Grantown ground heath Highland geography Highlands hills horses hundred inhabitants Inveraray Inverness Iona island isle killed kind Kingussie laird lake land Loch Loch Awe Loch Broom Lochaber Lowlands M'Intosh manner miles mountains narrow never night North oatmeal oats obliged occasion Outer Hebrides passed Pennant pines plaid poor pounds pretty quantity rain rents ride river road rocks roebuck salmon scarcely Scotland season seen servants sheep shillings shore shot side Skie snow sometimes soon South stones tacksmen tenants THOMAS PENNANT Thornton thought told town trees trout vast weather whole wind women woods