Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments, Volume 1Constable, 1822 - 595 páginas |
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... landlord , leader , and judge . He could call out the young occur from natural causes . The name of Cunnison or Macconich was prevalent in Athole in the fifteenth , sixteenth , and seventeenth centuries ; yet not an individual of that ...
... landlord , leader , and judge . He could call out the young occur from natural causes . The name of Cunnison or Macconich was prevalent in Athole in the fifteenth , sixteenth , and seventeenth centuries ; yet not an individual of that ...
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... landlords , but by consanguinity , as lineally de- scended from the old patriarchs or fathers of their families ; for they hold the same authority when they have lost their estates , as may appear from several instances , and parti ...
... landlords , but by consanguinity , as lineally de- scended from the old patriarchs or fathers of their families ; for they hold the same authority when they have lost their estates , as may appear from several instances , and parti ...
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... landlords , thus describes a meet- ing between the young Laird of Coll , ( elder brother of the present , ) and some of his attached and dutiful retainers : - " Wherever we moved , " says the Doctor , we were pleased to see the ...
... landlords , thus describes a meet- ing between the young Laird of Coll , ( elder brother of the present , ) and some of his attached and dutiful retainers : - " Wherever we moved , " says the Doctor , we were pleased to see the ...
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... landlords . " The following account of the dress is from an author who wrote prior to the year 1597. " They , " the High- landers , " delight in marbled cloths , especially that have long stripes of sundrie colours ; they love chiefly ...
... landlords . " The following account of the dress is from an author who wrote prior to the year 1597. " They , " the High- landers , " delight in marbled cloths , especially that have long stripes of sundrie colours ; they love chiefly ...
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... landlords . The family of Macintyre possessed the farm of Glenoe , in Nether Lorn , from about the year 1500 down till 1810. They were origi- nally foresters of Stewart Lord Lorn , and were continued in their posses- sion and ...
... landlords . The family of Macintyre possessed the farm of Glenoe , in Nether Lorn , from about the year 1500 down till 1810. They were origi- nally foresters of Stewart Lord Lorn , and were continued in their posses- sion and ...
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