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  Aberdour - Anderston | British History Online
The ecclesiastical affairs are subject to the presbytery of Abernethy and synod of Moray; the Earl of Seafield is patron, and the stipend of the minister is £234.
ABERNETHY, a burgh and parish, partly in the district of Cupar, county of Fife, but chiefly in the county of Perth, 3 miles (W. W.) from Newburgh; containing, with the village of Aberdargie, 1920 inhabitants, of whom 827 are in the town of Abernethy.
Abernethy is a burgh of barony, held under Lord Douglas, and had a charter from Archibald, Earl of Angus, Lord of Abernethy, dated 23rd August, 1476, in which mention is made of a royal charter of erection, in his favour, by King James II.
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 Duke of Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1445 the 5th Baron's son and heir James Hamilton, was created a Lord of Parliament and became James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton (?-1479).
The 1st Earl of Selkirk's eldest son James Hamilton (1658-1712) was known as the Earl of Arran until 9 July 1698 when his mother, Anne Hamilton, abdicated her titles of Duchess of Hamilton, Marchioness of Clydesdale, Lady Aven and Innerdale, Countess of Arran and Cambridge, Countess of Lanark and Lady Machansyre and Polmont.
He was created Duke of Brandon and Baron of Dutton in the Peerage of Great Britain on 10 September 1711, and famously killed in duel with Lord Mohun (who also died) in Hyde Park on 15 November 1712.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Hamilton   (1473 words)

  
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The breakdown of the watershed between the Firths of Clyde and Forth exposes southern Perthshire, the counties of Clackmannan and Kinross, and nearly the whole of Fife to the clouds and rains of the west, and their climates are consequently wetter than those of any others of the eastern slopes of the country.
The latter meet for the south at Jedburgh, Dumfries and Ayr; for the west at Glasgow, Inveraray and Stirling; and for the north at Perth, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness.
William the Conqueror's earl of Northumberland, Robert de Comines, was slain at Durham in 1069, and the houses of Gospatric (earls of Dunbar and March) and of de Comines (the Comyns of Badenoch) were long puissant in Scottish history.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=71180   (18608 words)

  
 baron - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about baron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The wife of a baron, or a woman holding a title in her own right, is a baroness.
(under the name of Baron Rivar, and in the character of her brother) was her brother at all.
"Monsieur," said the baron to the duke, "all the servants of his majesty must approve of the latest intelligence which we have from the Island of Elba.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /baron   (257 words)

  
 Duke of Hamilton - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Earl of Cambridge and Baron of Innerdale in the peerage of England (1619); extinct (1651)
Marquess of Douglas, Earl of Angus and Lord Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest in the peerage of Scotland (1633)
James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas (born 1942); younger brother of the 15th Duke of Hamilton; Resigned as 11th Earl of Selkirk; his heir is John Andrew Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Daer (born 1978).
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Earl_of_Selkirk   (2032 words)

  
 List of hereditary baronies in the peerages of the British Isles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1330, Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, was attainted and his titles were forfeited.
The Barony is united with the Earldom of Arundel and is held by the Duke of Norfolk.
The Barony belongs to the Dukedom of Richmond and is held by the Duke of Richmond and Lennox.
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 History Of Scotland Vol. 1 - Part 13
These high-spirited and adventurous barons, assembling a small force of three hundred horse and a few foot-soldiers, determined with such slender means to attempt the subjugation of a kingdom which had of late repeatedly defied the whole strength of England.
Under pretence of strictly observing the truce between the kingdoms, he prohibited the disinherited barons entering Scotland by the land frontier, but connived at their embarking at the obscure seaport of Ravenshire, near the mouth of the Humber, and sailing from thence in quest of the adventures which fortune should send them.
When at Perth, Edward was informed that the Scottish regent was lying with his forces in the forest of Stronkaltire (probably a portion of the famous wood of Birnam), near the foot of the Grampians, and on the verge of the Highlands.
www.oldandsold.com /articles36/history-of-scotland-v1-13.shtml   (6157 words)

  
 Forum der Burgmannschaft zur Eckartsburg e.V. - Britische Könige des Mittelalters (engl.)
The Treaty of Abernethy in 1072 marked a truce, which was reinforced by Malcolm's eldest son being accepted as a hostage.
Henry was in his earlier life commonly known as Henry Fitz-Empress from the fact that his mother Matilda, daughter of Henry I, was first married to the Emperor Henry V. Henry himself, however, was the son of her second husband, Geoffrey Plantagenet, and inherited from him the three important fiefs of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine.
All dangerous resistance was crushed, the numberless feudal castles were surrendered, and the turbulent barons were not unwilling to acquiesce in the security and order imparted by the reorganized machinery of the exchequer and by a more comprehensive system of judicial administration.
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 List of Baronies - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Baron Loftus in the United Kingdom from 1801
1795, Earl of Londonderry from 1796 and Marquess of Londonderry from 1816; Baron Stewart of Stewart's Court from 1822 and Earl Vane from 1823 in the United Kingdom
Earl of Winton and Baron Seton and Tranent on 23 June
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One day a poor widow brought an action against the Baron de Nairac, her landlord, for turning her out of her mill, which was the poor creature's sole dependence.
Abernethy, but knowing his aversion to hearing any statement of particulars, she merely uncovered the injured part, and held it before him in silence.
Baron Von Stackelberg, in going from Athens to Thessalonica in an armed vessel, was taken by some Albanian pirates, who immediately sent the captain of the vessel to the former place, demanding 60,000 piastres for the baron's ransom, and threatening that if it was not paid, they would tear his body to pieces.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/4/1/15413/15413.txt   (14706 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Index of Lords, Barons and Baronesses
Baron Atholstan, of Huntingdon in the province of Quebec in the Dominion of Canada, and of the City of Edinburgh [United Kingdom, 1917]
Baron Bourke of Connell, in Ireland [Ireland, 1580]
Baron Brouncker of Newcastle, in the Province of Munster [Ireland, 1645]
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707), by ROBERT S. RAIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
At Abernethy, on the banks of the Tay, Malcolm and William met, and the English Chronicle, as usual, informs us that the King of Scots became the "man" of the English king.
A Norman baron, born in England, he was by no means the natural leader for whose appearance men looked, and there was a grave chance of his failing to arouse the national sentiment.
King Robert arranged his infantry in four divisions; in front were three schiltrons of pikemen, under Randolph, Edward Bruce, and Sir James Douglas, and Bruce himself commanded the reserve, which was composed of Highlanders from Argyll and the Islands and of the men of Carrick.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/6/6/4/16647/16647-h/16647-h.htm   (18250 words)

  
 HEREDITARY PEERAGES IN THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND BELOW THE RANK OF A MARQUESS
36 Lordship of Abernethy and Strathearn 30 January 1562(The Lordship belongs to and is held by the Earl of Moray).
72 Lordship of Jedburgh 2 February 1622(The Lordship is held by the Marquess of Lothian)
86 Lordship of Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest 14 June 1633(The Lordship belongs to the Marquessate of Douglas and is held by the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon).
www.hulthenhem.se /peer/scot.htm   (4243 words)

  
 A Short History of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
On the east, from Ettrick forest into Lothian, the land was part of the early English kingdom of Bernicia; here the invading Angles were already settled—though river-names here remain Gaelic, and hill-names are often either Gaelic or Welsh.
In Scotland the germ of Parliament is the King’s court of vassals of the Crown.
In a Parliament at Perth (March 1428) James permitted the minor barons and freeholders to abstain from these costly assemblies on the condition of sending two “wise men” to represent each sheriffdom: a Speaker was to be elected, and the shires were to pay the expenses of the wise men.
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William Fleming (1729-95), surgeon, soldier, and statesman, Councillor and Acting-Governor (1781), was born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire.
William Grant Laidlaw, born near Jedburgh, Scotland, in 1840, served in the Civil War and was Member of Congress from 1887 to 1891.
George Abernethy (1807-77), territorial Governor (1845-49), was born in New York city of Scottish parentage.
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 scotlandeng
Neere unto which (for this little province can shew a goodly breed of nobility) their border Cruikston, the seat in times past of the Lords of Darley, from whom by right of marriage it came to the Earles of Lennox, whence Henrie the father of King James the Sixth was called Lord Darley.
Halkead, the habitation of the Barons of Ros, descended originally from English bloud, as who fetch their pedigree from that Robert Ros of Warke who long since left England and came under the alleageance of the King of Scots.
And the familie of the Barons Fleming dwelleth hard by at Cumbernald, which they received at the hands of King Robert Brus for their service valiantly and faithfully performed in defense of their country; whereby also they attained unto the hereditarie honour to be Chamberlains of Scotland.
www.philological.bham.ac.uk /cambrit/scoteng.html   (12396 words)

  
 Historical perspective for Hamilton Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A moathill towards the N of the park is 30 feet in diameter at the base, and 16 high, and it has been referred to at least as far back as the time of Malcolm Ceannmor.
The runic stone-cross, 4 feet high, in the vicinity, is supposed to have been the market-cross of NethertonHamilton gives the titles of Baron and Duke in the peerage of Scotland to the noble family of HamiltonDouglas, and that of Marquess to the Duke of Abercorn.
His other titles are Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, Earl of Angus, Arran, and Lanark, Lord Hamilton, Avon, Polmont, Mackanshire, Innerdale, Abernethy, and Jedburgh Forest in the peerage of Scotland, and Baron of Dutton.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurehistory7709.html   (1654 words)

  
 The Douglases
Shortly after the defeat of the English in Jedburgh Forest, a Gascon knight, named Edmund de Cailou, governor of Berwick, made an inroad into Teviotdale, but while returning through the Merse loaded with spoil, he was attacked by Douglas and killed, along with most of his men.
The intermarriages of their kinsfolk with the members of other great houses had largely extended the influence of the family, and throughout the districts where their estates lay the whole of the inferior barons and knights were either their allies or vassals.
On receiving intelligence of these intrigues, King James called a meeting of Parliament, which declared that it was lawful for the King to put the late Earl of Douglas to death as a rebel, and summoned his brothers and chief supporters to appear and answer for the crimes laid to their charge.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/families/douglases.htm   (10550 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Catherine Cochrane and others
He succeeded to the title of 7th Lord Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest [S., 1633] on 16 February 1819.
He succeeded to the title of 7th Baron of Dutton [G.B., 1711] on 16 February 1819.
He succeeded to the title of 8th Lord Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest [S., 1633] on 18 August 1852.
www.thepeerage.com /p10947.htm   (2611 words)

  
 Index to Session 1830-31: K-Z | British History Online
- Jedburgh; Banff; Dumfries; Castle Douglas; Kilmarnock; Kirkcudbright; Wigtown; Inverkeithing; Incorporated Tailors, Edinburgh; Leven; Leith; Lanarkshire; and Selkirk.
of Linlithgow; Queensferry; Sedgley; Lincoln; Horsham; Waterford; Incorporation of Barbers, Glasgow; Dunning; Banks of the Leven; Dunse; Ward of Aldgate, London; Incorporation of Hammermen, Easter and Wester Portsburgh; Tailor Incorporation, Perth; Auchtermuchty; Incorporation of Bakers, Easter and Wester Portsburgh; Jedburgh; Incorporated Trades of Calton, Edinburgh; Incorporation of Fleshers, Edinburgh; Exeter; Stirling; Canongate; and Thurso.
Easter and Wester Portsburgh of Edinburgh; Hertfordshire (received as the Petition of Baron Dimsdale, High Sheriff); Netherbury; Buntingford; Kidderminster; West Bromwich; Nunea ton; Worcester; Pro prietors of Iron Works, andc.
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 UK Clubs Counties A-B
Contact: Dr RJ Abernethy Address: Carradale, PA28 6SG Argyll & Bute, Tel: 01583 431378 Green Fees: £12.00 per day.
Baron: £15 (£20 weekend) Location: 2m W on A507 Distance: 6238 yds & 6042 yds Driving Range: Club Professional: G Morrison Tel: 01525 860666
Jedburgh Description: Undulating parkland 9 hole course with young trees.
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