Author: Official Documents (Aberdeen, City of)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Guildry of Dundee
Author: Annette M. SmithPublisher: Mitchell Beazley
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"For many centuries only the Royal Burghs of Scotland could participate in the country's import / export trade and within these burghs the only legitimate dealers in this trade were the merchants. This privilege was greatly envied by those who could not partake in what could be a lucrative business and it was a constant struggle to prevent or punish breaches of the monopoly. Merchants everywhere realised at an early date that by acting together they would be more able to ward off competition and in many towns they formed their own association, the Guildry. This study has used the fascinating records of the Guildry in Dundee to follow the efforts of the local merchants to defend their privileges until in 1846 changing views on free trade and democracy resulted in the abolition by Parliament of the special position of the Royal Burghs and all the monopolistic institutions within their bounds. The vital part the Guildry played in the economy of the burgh led also to its involvement in the administration and eventually to support for political reform"--Back cover.
Publication
Author: An Inquiry Into the Rights of the Guildry of Aberdeen
Author: Official Documents (Aberdeen, City of)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700
Author: Leona J. SkeltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131721790X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public spaces, vesting interest in keeping the areas in which they lived and worked clean. Taking an extensive tour of over thirty towns and cities across early modern Britain, focusing on Edinburgh and York as in-depth case studies, this book sheds light on the complex relationship between how governors organised street cleaning, managed waste disposal and regulated the cleanliness of the outdoor environment, top-down, and how typical urban inhabitants self-regulated their neighbourhoods, bottom-up. The urban-rural manure trade, sanitation infrastructure, waste-disposal technology, plague epidemics, contemporary understandings of malodours and miasmatic disease transmission and urban agriculture are also analysed. This book will enable undergraduates, postgraduates and established academics to deepen their understanding of daily life and sensory experiences in the early modern British town. This innovative work will appeal to social, cultural and legal historians as well as researchers of history of medicine and public health.
A Bibliography of British Municipal History, Including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation
Author: Charles GrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland
Author: Kay MuhrPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019252478X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2365
Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland contains more than 3,800 entries covering the majority of family names that are established and current in Ireland, both in the Republic and in Northern Ireland. It establishes reliable and accurate explanations of historical origins (including etymologies) and provides variant spellings for each name as well as its geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes for family names that have more than 100 bearers in the 1911 census of Ireland. Of particular value are the lists of early bearers of family names, extracted from sources ranging from the medieval period to the nineteenth century, providing for the first time, the evidence on which many surname explanations are based, as well as interesting personal names, locations and often occupations of potential family forbears. This unique Dictionary will be of the greatest interest not only to those interested in Irish history, students of the Irish language, genealogists, and geneticists, but also to the general public, both in Ireland and in the Irish diaspora in North America, Australia, and elsewhere.
Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Courts of Law in Scotland
Author: Great Britain. Law Courts CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Digest of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, from 1800 to 1868; And, on Appeal, by the House of Lords, from 1726 to 1868. Being a New Edition of the Digest from 1800 to 1852, by Mr. Shaw; and from 1852 to 1862, by Messrs. Macpherson, Bell and Lamond ... Revised, Consolidated, and Continued to 1868, by A. B. Bell and W. Lamond
Author: Patrick ShawList of the Deans of Guild of Aberdeen
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385245303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.