Caithness: Summary Table Parish Pennylands 18d units/ Ouncelands At least … 6d units/ Davachs? Davachs (specified or named) Davach (equiv No’s) Ratio d:d (Davachs to Pennylands) Place-name evidence Bower 69⅚d 2 2 No 11+ 1:6? Canisbay 80⅝d 1 – No…
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Inferring pennylands from rentals
Inferring pennylands from rentals The Caithness Summary text file describes ‘standard rentals’ and how they can serve as a useful form of validation when other data fails. In other counties I have always stopped short of calculating assessment values…
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Wick Text Summary
Wick Principal Sources OSA Vol 10 No 1 1794 NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1841) RMS 1 App 2 Index A No 378 (Robert I) RMS II (1404) 1478 on original of 1455 RMS III (475)…
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Wick Table
Wick Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Nybster (3d) 1663 ND 3663 Thomson(1822) This farm formed the northern boundary of Wick parish. Broch (possible) Nybster – ND 370631. See below. Ackergill Mains (18d) 1549 ND…
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Watten Text Summary
Watten Principal Sources OSA Vol 11 No 19 1794 NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1840) RMS III (1798) 1538 RMS V (1341) 1587 RMS VII (129) 1609, (1508) 1616 RMS XI (558) 1664 RSS VII…
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Watten Table
Watten Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc ‘Westbuster’ (12d?) 1561 Waistbust in Books of Assumption pp 632-3. Waistbustar in OPS II, II p 782. = Westir below? Westir? 7⅜d c. 1696 …
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Thurso Text Summary
Thurso Principal Sources OSA Vol 20 No 21 1798 (This includes a parish map). NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1840) RMS II (2506) 1499 RMS III (2047, 2048) 1539, (3164-5) 1545, (3215) 1545-6 RMS IV (1635)…
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Thurso Table
Thurso For Dorrery see Halkirk. Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc (Mains of) Murkle West Murkle West Murkle 8d 4d 4½d 1472 1661 1664 ND 1669 ND 1569 Blaeu(Caithness) Gordon(9) Roy(FC) Book of Thanes of…
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Reay Text Summary
Reay Principal Sources OSA Vol 7 No 52 1793 NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1840) RMS II (148-149) 1429-30 RMS III (477) 1527, (860) 1529, (891) 1529-30, (1798) 1538, (2882) 1542-3 on original of 1539, (3215)…
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Reay Table
Reay First I have listed the Sutherland part of Reay – i.e. Strath Halladale. This was originally Farr parish but part of Reay from early in the 13th century. The list is in geographical order going upriver along the west…
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