The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway


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Covers the period A. D. 79-1792.




The Hereditary Sheriffs Of Galloway; Their "Forebears" And Friends, Their Courts And Customs Of Their Times, With Notes Of The Early History, Ecclesiastical Legends, The Baronage And Placenames Of The Province (Volume Ii)


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The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway


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The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway: Their "Forebears" and Friends, Their Courts and Customs of Their Times with Notes of the Early History, Ecclesias


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Volume 2 covers the League and Covenant, Civil War, the lands of Larne and Kilwaughter, a Cromwellian sheriff, witch-hunting, Rullion Green, the Conventicle Act, the Highland Host, the Killing-Time, the Revolution, the ghost of the Galdenoch, agricultural habits, the Union, the Rising of 1715, Innermessan, Sir Stair, Dettingen, the Scots Fusiliers, the Forty-Five, heritable jurisdictions abolished, the last sheriff, country life in the eighteenth century; with pedigrees and appendices.