10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAIRDLY»
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lairdly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Tales and Traditions of Scottish Castles
Ballindalloch. Castle. and. Lairdly. Problems. PICTURESQUELY SITUATED IN
lower Speyside where the River Avon coming down from the Cairngorms joins
the Spey between Grantown and Aberlour, Ballindalloch is an interesting and ...
Justice Lairdly arrived and he was as unusual as they had described: short and
bald with thick eyeglasses, and a large handlebar moustache. He looked much
like a gnome, but he was professional and not only would he do their rites, but
was ...
Diana K Perkins, Cheryl Gagne, 2011
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The Scottish Middle March, 1573-1625: Power, Kinship, Allegiance
As the work of Madden and Sanderson suggests, the emergence of small
proprietors in the sixteenth century was creating a level that was not lairdly, but
did have some substance and security of tenure. And within the lairdly class,
Meikle has ...
4
Tales of Welshland and Welsherie
He was a tall, handsome, lairdly-\ookmg man, about fifty years of age, with good-
nature and kindness so strongly depicted on his features, that I felt no hesitation
whatever in introducing myself at once to him. — " This is a lovely spot you have ...
Edward Trevor Anwyl, 1831
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The English dialect dictionary
More gm. applied to the eldest son of a statesman. W111. Thelaird an his lackeys
Were feasting, \VHITEHEAO Leg. (1859) 5. w.Yks.“ Ilence (1) Lairdlin, $1). a petty
lord; (2) Lairdliness, sb. lordliness; (3) Lairdly, adj. lordly ; (4) Lairdship, sb.
Here was a man who was socially acceptable—apart from his own lairdly status
he married a daughter of the Earl of Crawford—but socially acceptable at a
distance, if one may so put it, as Sir James Melville was. ls it altogether fanciful to
...
7
Court and culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay ...
While historians debate the technical definition of the lairdly class — arguing that,
strictly speaking, lairds were freeholders of the crown — Lindsay usefully reminds
us how blurred social distinctions below the ranks of the aristocracy could be.
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An essay on the principle of population: or, a view of its ...
Park was assured by Dr. Lairdly, that at that time many free-men came, and
begged with great earnestness, to be put upon his flave chain to save them from
perishing with hunger c. While Park was in Manding, a scarcity of provisions was
...
Thomas Robert Malthus, 1803
9
Probationary Odes for the Laureatship: with a preliminary ...
Ye lairdly sowk, wha form the courtly ring, Coom, lend your lugs, and listen wheil I
sing! Ye canny maidens tce! wha aw the wheile, _Sa sweetly luik, sa sweetly
smeile; Coom hither aw, and roond me thrang, Wheil I lug oot my peips, and gi'
ye ...
10
History of the Burgh of Dumfries
... thus produced, the websters of the Burgh wove a substantial cloth, which, as "
hoddin-gray,"* garmented common folks; or, when of a finer sort, and dyed a
patrician blue by the litsters, became a fit attire for the lairdly and mercantile
classes, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAIRDLY»
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Monarch of the glen
I step outside to the car park, don my lairdly attire and set off to claim my inheritance. This, it quickly turns out, is easier said than done. Leaving ... «Scotsman, Aug 07»
