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Harris Text Summary

Harris   Principal Sources   Old Statistical Account, Vol X,  No XXVIII, pp 342-392, by Rev. Mr John Macleod, published Edinburgh, 1794. New Statistical Account, Vol XIV, 1845 (on original completed in 1841)   RMS II (2420) 1498 RMS IV

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Harris Table

Harris   Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Cliasamol 1d 1746 NB 0706 Bald 1d(1838). Linked with Soay and reckoned as part of Paible in Taransay? Possibly represented 1d of 4d of Paible, in which

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Lewis Text Summary

Lewis   Acknowledgement Some years ago, after a seminar in Glasgow, A. MacCoinnich was kind enough to share his research findings with me. They appear as Appendix D8 in A. MacCoinnich, Plantation and Civility in the North Atlantic World –

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Lewis Table

Lewis The selection of farms for the following table is a little arbitrary. I have gone on the basis of evidence from maps by Blaeu (1654), Johnson (1821), and the eighteenth-century rentals. Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other

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The Parishes of Lewis – Table A

The Parishes of Lewis – Table A   Source   No. Lochs Uig Berneray Carloway Braigar Barvas Cladach Ness Stornoway Eye   Monro 1549     4   (Lochis?)   Vige             Niss    

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Canna Summary Text

Canna   Principal Sources   RMS VIII (1197) 1628 on original of 1627 RMS XI (541) 1663, (930) 1666 Historical Manuscripts Commission 4th Report p 480 No 127 (1627) & 128 (1672) CRA p 2 1561 RH4/90/12 1595 Argyll Valuation

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Rum Summary Text

Rum   Principal Sources   RMS I (412, 520, 551), App 1 No 9 RMS III (712) 1528, (2787) 1542 RMS IV (1352) 1559 RMS VII (1652) 1617 RMS VIII (1623) 1630 RMS XI (1105) 1667 RSS V.i  (389) 1558

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Muck Summary Text

Muck   Principal Sources   RMS VI (536) 1596-7 linking Muck with Ungnacille in Skye RMS VIII (140) 1621 confirming charter of 1617 RMS IX (1310) 1643 RMS X (531) 1656   AS II (14) 1618, (418, 420) 1632, (688)

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