Volume 2

Historical and statistical account of Dunfermline / By the Rev. Peter Chalmers.

  • Chalmers, Peter, 1790?-1870.
Date:
1844-1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Historical and statistical account of Dunfermline / By the Rev. Peter Chalmers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. QPLDLPILIJILILFL IIIS. SECTION I. TOPOGRAPHY OF DUNFERMLINE. Situation of Town—Whence best views of it—Derivations of names, Page Seals of Burgh—Common and Double—Descriptions and origin of them, Claim of Dunfermline to be called a City—Foundation of—Opinions as - to the origin of the title City—Du Cange, Coke, Blackstone, Brady —Demesne and Free Cities and Burghs—Community, Dunblane, 3-6 Manchester created a City by royal Tenee in 1853—Letters regarding Perth, although not the seat of a Bishop, nor constituted a City by royal charter, called a City, P Memoranda to the Right Hon. Lord Céinaball, and ord Campbell’s Reply as to the claim of Dunfermline to be called a City, Age of the Dunfermline Seal, having the word “ Civitas,” &c., Letters of the City-Clerks of Edinburgh and Glasgow on the subject, Extracts as to Glasgow being called a City, from the “ Origines Parochiales Scotise,” or “ Antiquities of the Parishes of Scotland,” edited by Cosmo Innes, Esq., and from the “ Registrum Ecclesie B.V. Marie et S. Anne infra Muros Civitatis Glasguensis MDXLIX,” commonly styled “ The Book of our oa College of Glasgow,” edited by Jos. Robertson, Esq., Extracts from Letters on the same sith a by felted Hawictiet F\S.A., British Museum, London ; Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, D.C.L. ; Rev. Robert Hussey, B.D., Prof. of Eccles. History, Oxford ; Right Hon. Sir James Stephens, K.C.B., LL.D., Prof. Modern History, Cambridge; Travers Twiss, D.C.L., Prof. of Law of Nations, King’s College, London; Nicholas, Cardinal Wiseman; Peter Wheelen, Numismatist, London; J. T. Akerman, F.\S.A., Secretary to the Royal Antiquarian Society, ; Recognition of the title by Dr John Leslie, PrORABOE a Aberdeen and Bishop of Ross, ; : , ; ‘ ‘ 40-43