126 THE OLD HOSPITAL . A Bailie for the port is then elected in open court - a
singularly preserved remnant of the old open system . The Bailie's real duties
now are to keep a good bottle in store for the Marches Day ! Returning to
Linlithgow ...
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At about three , however , the sky brightened a little , and we set forth through the
ancient , rusty , and queer - looking town of Linlithgow , towards the palace and
the ancient church , which latter was one of St. David's edifices , and both of ...
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Your slaughtered quarry proudly trode , At dawning morn , o'er dale and down ,
But prouder base - born Murray rode Through old Linlithgow's crowded town . “
With hackbut bent , my secret stand , Dark as the purposed deed , I chose , And ...
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17 } m . LINLITHGOW ( Star and Garter , R . & B . 10 ) , L . 3 ) , D . 5 / ; St .
Michaels , L . or D . 3 / ) , the county town of West Lothian , is an ancient little
place ( 3666 inhab . ) with steep - pitched roofs and numerous fountains ( '
Lithgow for wells ...
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17 m . LINLITHGOW ( Star and Garter , R. & B. 12/6 , pens . 21 / ; St. Michael's ) ,
the county town of West Lothian , is an ancient little place ( 3666 inhab . ) with a
long High Street , steep - pitched roofs and numerous fountains ( Lithgow for
wells ...
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It was in “ Old Linlithgow's crowded town ” that the Regent Murray , the half -
brother of Queen Mary , was murdered by Hamilton of Bothwell - haugh in 1570.
The story , in its legendary form , has been told by Scott in his wild ballad of
Cadzow ...
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67 LINLITHGOW 8 } m . ... In a park to the N . is the pretty Linlithgow Loch ( c . fm .
long ) , a favourite resort of skaters . ... In 1570 the Regent Moray , as he rode
through “ old Linlithgow ' s crowded town , ” was shot from a balcony by James ...
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The wheat firiot or old Linlithgow tirlot measured 2215-27 English cubic inches ,
whilst the barley firlot measured 3231 • 068 English cubic inches . I extract these
values from a pamphlet upon the old measures and weights of Scotland ...
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The Palace of Linlithgow Queen Anne was dead , as everybody know . was
Margaret's own especial home . ... to spend a Flodden , of the death of the King ,
and the night at the old Palace of his ancestors . slaughter of the flower of the
land .
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Tulloch Cas . , Ross F 3 Urr Loch & Water , Dumfries B 3 Waterstone , Linlithgow
E 2 Tullochgorum , Inverness H 2 Urr , Old Bri . & W. of , Kirkcudbt . D 3 Wath
Burn , Dumfries D 3 Tulloch Hill , Forfar C 3 Ury Ho . , Kincardine G 3 Watling
Street ...
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Your slaughtered quarry proudly trod , At dawning morn , o'er dale and down ,
But prouder base - born Murray rode Thro ' old Linlithgow's crowded town . *
Selle - Saddle . A word used by Spenser , and other ancient authors . “ From the
wild ...
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Your slaughter'd quarry proudly trod , At dawning morn , o'er dale and down , But
prouder base - born Murray rode Thro ' old Linlithgow's crowded town . But can
stern power with all his vaunt , in Or pomp , with all her courtly glare , The settled
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The earliest development was Portsburgh * ( outside the city , to the w of
Grassmarket ) , extending up West Port to the Main Point junction where the old
roads to Glasgow ( now East Fountainbridge ) and Linlithgow ( now Bread Street
) ...
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The chief attention of the farmer is devoted to grazing , for which the proximity of
Linlithgow to Falkirk , the great cattle tryst ... The old inclosed pastures , and the
artificial grasses afford abundant provender in the summer , and in the winter too
...
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Neatly Engraved on Twenty-three Copper Plates, Describing the Old Law Hands,
with Their Contractions and Abbreviations. With an Appendix ... Loncastria --
Lancaster , Leviodanum - Livingstone , Linlithgow . Londinia , Londinium ...
Author: Andrew Wright (of the Inner Temple.)
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51 OLD LINLITHGOW ( ASSASSINATION OF REGENT MORAY ) ; after a Picture
by Sir WILLIAM ALLAN , P.R.S.A. . QUEEN MARY'S BED - CHAMBER ,
HOLYROOD ; after & Drawing by G. CATTERMOLE 38 BARNBOUGLE CASTLE ;
after ...
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The old Linlithgow boll contains nearly six bushels , and its value may be taken at
18s . 8d . , or about two - thirds the cost of an imperial quarter . Reckoning the
price of an imperial pint of beer at 4d . , the proportion borne by it at the present ...
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A tower , or fortress , as simple in construction as its purposes were obvious , and
common enough for defence in the marauding LINLITHGOW CASTLE - formerly
Lithgow - a county town , and days of old , appears to have been the original ...
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CONSTITUENCY: 635, WEST LOTHIAN COUNTY: WEST LOTHIAN OLD Ward or
Electoral Electors Numbers NEW ... F l 289 11 No 20 11 Kinneil G l 57 West
Lothian No la Linlithgow D C Linlithgow West H l 1058 11 in 11 Linlithgow East I l
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In it the Prior and Canons of St Andrews pray King Edward , “ seeing that he has
made a camp and fortalice of their old church , ” which they describe as within the
Peel of Linlithgow ( infra 1 “ The said Robert de Bremmesgrave to send there ...
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