Contin
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 7 No 16
RMS I p535 Index B No 17; p 536 Index B No 4
RMS II (1227) 1475-6, (3313) 1508-9
RMS III (382) 1526, (422) 1526-7, (486) 1527, (618, 690) 1528, (731) 1528-9, (1832) 1538, (2817) 1542, (2903) 1543
RMS IV (2063) 1572
RMS V (1049) 1586 on original of 1549, (1331, 1337) 1587
RMS VI (265) 1595, (1045.2) 1600 on original of 1598
RMS VII (298) 1610 on original of 1607
RMS VIII (575) 1624 on original of 1621
RMS X (440) 1655
ER XX p 418 1571
RSS II (2697-8) 1538
RSS VI (47.3) 1567
RSS VIII (1901) 1583-4
GD1/400/2/3 Section I p 2, 1669; pp 17-18, 1670
GD1/436/3/1-2 1620
GD1/513/1 1644
GD1/1149/8/1 1636, GD1/1149/8/2 1637, GD1/1149/8/3 1639, GD1/1149/8/4 1651, GD1/1149/8/5 1651
GD1/1149/11/1 1700, GD1/1149/11/3 18th C., GD1/1149/25 1600
GD46/14/1 1463
GD128/23/1/3 1594
GD305/1/20/6 1561
GD305/1/21/3 1654, GD305/1/21/6 1659, GD305/1/45/9 1654, GD305/1/71/38 1590, GD305/1/102/265 1528, GD305/1/108/322 1619, GD305/1/119/469 1644, GD305/1/126/578 1666, GD305/1/127/12 1641, GD305/1/161/99 1726, GD305/1/162/271 1664, GD305/1/166/7 1463, GD305/1/166/7 1508
RS36/2/351r 1608
RS37/5/308v 1636
RS37/7/31r 1648
RS37/7/113r 1651, RS37/7/113v 1651
RS37/7/316v 1658
RS38/3/69v 1666
RS38/3/342r 1668
RS38/4/156v 1672
SIG1/117/86 1743
ALI No 81 pp 129-30, No 126 pp 201-2
Retours (Ross) (6) 1574, (79) 1633, (82) 1635, (139) 1681, (148) 1688, (164) 1698
Highland Papers II pp 332-336 c. 1726
RHP 2521 1853, RHP 2524 1884, RHP 2525 1825
RHP 3017 1843, RHP 2925 1864, RHP 2985, 3030, 3051, 3052 & 3055 c. 1843
RHP 3306 1880, RHP 3322 1887
Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, London, 1877
M Marshall, Strathconon, North of Scotland Archaeological Society, 2011
Contin is more difficult than other parishes in Ross because some assessments seem to reflect Old Extent whilst others seem to reflect New. The farms in the eastern parts of the parish appear to be of a type with those in neighbouring parishes where davachs may have been valued at 10m before the end of the fourteenth century. However Contin is a huge parish and as we move west we come across the 1 davach to 4m valuations that I think indicate Old Extent. This is stated for Eskadale and implied for Glenmeanich (=Inverneseny).
The table shows a minimum of 14 davachs.
There were detached parts of Urray & Fodderty parishes within Contin (see NOSAS, Strathconon, p 87; Shennan pp 7-8, 134-5). I have here included them within Contin.
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