Caledonia, Or, A Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain from the Most Ancient to the Present Times: With a Dictionary of Places, Chorographical and Philological, Volume 2A. Gardner, 1887 - Scotland |
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Abbot Abbot of Kelso Aberdeen Alan Alexander II ancient Andrews appears Arbroath Baliol barons Bishop of Glasgow Bishop of Moray Bishop of St brother castle Celtic Chart charters of David chartularies Chron church confirmed constable crown Cupar daughter died Diplom Douglas Dryburgh Dunfermline Earl of Buchan Earl of Carrick Edinburgh Edward England English epoch estates Fife Fœd Fordun Freskin Gaelic Galloway granted heir Henry Hist Hugh James John Cumyn justiciary King William king's lands Lord Hailes Lord Hailes's Lothian Malcolm Malcolm IV manor married Melrose Monast monastery monks of Kelso Moray Moreville Newbotle North-Britain obtained Paisley Parliament Peer Peerage Perth prince progenitor proper Scotland reign of Alexander Richard Robert Bruce Robertson's Index Rymer's Saxon Scone Scotia Scotland Scoto-Saxon period Scots Scottish Scottish king settled sheriff Skene Soltre Stewart succeeded vassals Walter William the Lion witnessed a charter
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Page 579 - We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ; not in the root, but in the stem ; for we know not which is the mean man that did rise above the vulgar.
Page 439 - Tome of an exact Chronological Vindication and Historical Demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English Kings...
Page 883 - THE parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning: History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination, and Philosophy to his Reason.
Page 495 - Scoto-Saxon period, which begnn (AD; 1097) one and thirty years after the Saxon period of the English annals had closed, will be found to contain historical topics of great importance. The Gaelic Scots predominated in the former period; the Saxon-English will be seen to give the law in this. We shall perceive a memorable revolution take place, concerning •which the North-British annals have hitherto been altogether silent : we shall soon perceive a new people come in upon the old, a new dynasty...
Page 439 - A Vindication of Elizabeth More from the Imputation of being a Concubine ; and her Children from the Tache of Bastardy.
Page 763 - ... Westminster, in 1278, he was not attended by a Lyon Herald, though he had his harpers and minstrels. The first authentic notice which I have discovered on this curious subject is at the coronation of Robert II., on the 27th of March 1371 : — " Then the Lion King of Arms was called on by the Lord Marischal, who, (the Lion) attended on by the heralds, came in their coats. The Lion sat down at the King's feet, and the heralds went to their stage prepared for them ; and then the Mareschal, by the...
Page 476 - ... modulation, and semitones were left to the musician's ear. There were three names for harp notes, signifying the single, the great, and the little harmony. Celtic music, like the poetry, is generally of a grave and plaintive character, although cheerful and animating airs are by no means wanting. " The Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, have all melodies of a simple sort, which, as they are connected together by cognate marks, evince at once their relationship and antiquity."")' The Manx have but...
Page 879 - Earl of Hay, writing to Sir Robert Walpole from Edinburgh, said: ' I am forced to send this letter by a servant twenty miles out of town, where the Duke of Argyle's attorney cannot handle it.' It sounds strangely that Lord Hay should thus have had to complain of his own brother; that one who was supreme in Scotland, should have been under such a difficulty from an opposition noble; and that there should have been, at so recent a period, a disregard to so needful a principle.
Page 575 - David the first, and the sons of Alan, who were also patronized by the Earl of Gloucester. It was, probably, on that occasion, that Walter accompanied David into Scotland. William, the son of Alan, adhered steadily to the Empress, and was rewarded by Henry the second, for his attachment.
Page 853 - Bishop Leslie said in her defence, "that she yielded to that, to which those crafty, colluding, "seditious heads and the necessity of the time, as then to her seemed, did in a