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An historical account of the blue blanket; or, craftsmens banner: containing the fundamental principles of the good-town; with the powers and prerogatives of the crafts of Edinburgh, &c. The second edition, enlarged: and adorned with the fourteen incorporations' arms.
Pennecuik, Alexander, -1730.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
John Kay of Edinburgh : barber, miniaturist and social commentator, 1742-1826 / Hilary and Mary Evans.
Evans, Hilary, 1929-2011.Date: 1980- Books
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The history of Edinburgh : from its foundation to the present time. Containing a faithful relation of the publick transactions of the citizens; accounts of the several parishes; its governments, civil, ecclesiastical, and military; incorporations of trades and manufactures; courts of justice; state of learning; charitable foundations, &c. With the several accounts of the parishes of the Canongate, St. Cuthbert, and other districts within the suburbs of Edinburgh. Together with the antient and present state of the town of Leith, and a perambulation of divers miles round the city. With an alphabetical index. In nine books / By William Maitland. The whole illustrated with a plan of the town, and a great variety of other fine cuts of the principal buildings within the city and suburbs.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: 1753- Books
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Memorial for the United Incorporations of Mary's Chapel, and for Alexander Miller Glazier, deacon, duly elected by them, of the Incorporation of Masons, pursuers, against Alexander Nicolson, the pretended deacon of the said incorporation, and the magistrates and town-council of Edinburgh, and others, defenders.
Dreghorn, John Maclaurin, Lord, 1734-1796.Date: 1764]- Books
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The trimmer: or, some necessary cautions, concerning the union of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England; with an answer to some of the chief objections against an incorporating union.
Spotiswood, John, 1667-1728.Date: Printed in the Year, 1706- Books
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Lawful prejudices against an incorporating union with England; or, some modest considerations on the sinfulness of this union, and the danger flowing from it to the Church of Scotland.
Webster, James, 1658?-1720.Date: printed in the year 1707- Books
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The history of Edinburgh, from its foundation to the present time. Containing A faithful Relation of the publick Transactions of the Citizens; Accounts of the several Parishes; its Governments, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military; Incorporations of Trades and Manufactures; Courts of Justice; State of Learning; Charitable Foundations, &c. With the several Accounts of The Parishes of the Canongate, St. Cuthbert, and other Districts within the Suburbs of Edinburgh. Together with the antient and present State of the Town of Leith, and a Perambulation of divers Miles round the City. With an Alphabetical Index. In nine books. By William Maitland, F. R. S. Author of the History of London. The whole illustrated with a Plan of the Town, and a great Variety of other fine Cuts of the principal Buildings within the City and Suburbs.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A collection of the laws in favours of the Reformation in Scotland, in three parts. Part I. Containing the principal acts and statutes made by the Parliaments of Scotland, in favours of the true religion, betwixt our Reformation from Popery (1560.) and the year 1640. With an abridgment of the other laws respecting religion, made during that period. Part II. Containing an exact collection of the laws made in favours of the Church and religion in Scotland, betwixt the years 1640 and 1650. to which are subjoined three Acts of the Parliament 1661. rescinding the same. Part III. Containing the principal acts and statutes made by the Parliaments of Scotland, in favours of the true protestant religion and presbyterial Church-government, from the Revolution (1690.) to the incorporating union with England (1707.) With an abridgment of the other laws respecting religion, from the Restoration (1660.) to the present time. To all which is subjoined an index of the principal contents of these collections. The whole making up a genuine history of the legal establishment of religion in Scotland, from the Reformation (1560.) to the present year 1749. and wherein care is taken to distinguish the laws which were rescinded, from the laws that were never declared to be so.
Scotland.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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An act for incorporating the proprietors of the water-works in York-buildings, and for encouraging, carrying on and settling the said water-works.
England and Wales.Date: 1780?]- Books
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An address to the freemen of the several incorporations of Edinburgh. Fellow citizens, you need not be informed that, notwithstanding the number of your representatives in council, your real interest in the government of this city is always precarious, and too often very inconsiderable. ...
Your Fellow citizen.Date: 1764?]- Books
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An address to the freemen of the several incorporations of Edinburgh. Fellow-citizens, I need not inform you, that your interest in the government of this city is rather nominal than real. Notwithstanding the number of your representatives in council, matters of the greatest consequence have often been concluded before you knew they were projected; ...
Your Fellow-Citizen.Date: 1763]- Books
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A reply to the authors of The advantages of Scotland by an incorporate union; And of The Fifth essay, At Removing National Prejudices. Or, a vindication of The Author of the Advantages of the Act of Security, in Opposition to the Incorporating Union.
Black, William, -1745.Date: M.DCC.VII. [1707]- Books
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Bill-chamber. 4. July 1800. Bill of adv. & interd. with ans. rep. & dup. Thomas Sands & others, against Robert Bald. Tho. Manson, W.S. Wm. Walker, W.S. agents. Mr Gordon, clerk. Lord Justice-Clerk, reporter. 2d July 1800. The Lord Justice-Clerk, as ordinary on the bills, having considered the bill, with the answers, replies, and duplies; before answer, appoints the bill, answers, replies, and duplies, together with the minutes of the town-council, and set of the burgh, ... to be forthwith printed and put into the Lords boxes, ... Dav. Rae. Bill of advocation and interdict, Baillie Thomas Sands of Culross, and other nine counsellors of said burgh, against Robert Bald, a member of the Incorporation of shoemakers there, &c.
Sands, Thomas, of Culross.Date: [1800]- Books
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Now or never: or, a serious address to the citizens of Edinburgh, and particularly to the Incorporated Craftsmen. Wherein several important considerations are laid down, relating to the choice of a representative for that city; the right of the Incorporations asserted ... several objections answered, and the whole set in a new light.
Date: 1741- Books
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The advantages of Scotland by an incorporate union with England, compar'd with these [sic] of a coalition with the Dutch, or league with France. In answer to a pamphlet, call'd, The advantages of the Act of security, &c. ...
Date: 1706- Books
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A letter concerning the consequence of an incorporating uniou, [sic], in relation to trade.
Date: M.DCC.VI. [1706]- Books
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Act of the incorporations of Mary's Chapel. Instituting a scheme for providing annuities to widows of the members. Passed 8th March 1768. With obligation by the contributors subjoined.
United Incorportation of St. Mary's Chapel.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Pictures
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Edinburgh, Greyfriars churchyard: the tomb of James Borthwick of Stow, carved with a skeleton and surgical instruments. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 664265i- Books
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The author of the Lawful prejudices against an incorporating union with England, defended. In answer to a pamphlet entituled, The dissenters in England vindicated, from some reflexions, in a late pamphlet entituled; Lawful prejudices &c.
Date: Edinburgh Printed in the year 1707- Books
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Answers for Thomas Martin, William Morrison, James Ballairdie, and William Tait, present bailies of the borough of Pittenween for the current year; James Martin Jun. treasurer of the said Borough, James Martin Senior weaver in Pittenween, Willliam Martin shoemaker there, Alexander Anderson land-labourer there, Robert Ramsay land-labourer there, David Lawson weaver there, David Bowman weaver there, Robert Stevenson weaver there, Alexander Hamilton merchant and land-labourer there, James Thomson sailor and fisher there, William Melvil fisher and sailor there, Thomas Davidson fisher and sailor there, Thomas Watson barber there, James Laing inn-keeper and land-labourer there, Thomas Ballairdie mariner, now master of His Majesty's ship the Coventry, and John Durkie mariner there all counsellors of the said burgh, for the said year, to the petition and complaint of Peter Ramsay and Andrew Wilson, late bailies ...
Pittenweem (Scotland). Town Council.Date: 1765]- Books
Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy and the newborn : incorporating the proceedings of the International Colloquium at Aberdeen, Scotland, July, 1973 / edited by Hamish W. Sutherland and John M. Stowers.
International Colloquium on Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn (1973 : Aberdeen, Scotland)Date: 1975- Pictures
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Edinburgh Royal Infirmary: laying of the foundation stone by the Prince of Wales, 1870. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 13 October 1870Reference: 17290i- Books
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The nature and advantages of good education. A sermon, preached before the Society incorporated by royal charter for the Benefit of the Sons of the Clergy of the Established Church of Scotland, in the Tron Church of Edinburgh, June 3d, 1795. By Henry Grieve, D. D. F. R. S. E. one of the Ministers of Edinburgh, and one of his Majesty's Chaplains. To which is added, an account of the objects and constitution of the Society.
Grieve, Henry, 1736-1810.Date: 1796- Books
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An inquiry into the life, writings, and character, of the reverend Doctor William Guild, One of the Chaplains in Ordinary to His Majesty King Charles I, and Founder of the Trinity Hospital, Aberdeen. with some strictures upon Spalding's account of him, and of the times in which he lived. By James Shirrefs, D. D. Senior Minister of Aberdeen, and Patron of the Incorporated Trades.
Shirrefs, James, 1752-1830.Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Books
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Queries to the Presbyterian noblemen and gentlemen, barons, burgesses, ministers and commoners in Scotland, who are for the scheme of an incorporating Union with England, according to the Articles agreed upon by the Commissioners of both nations.
Date: 1706]