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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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Olrig Text Summary

Olrig   Principal Sources   OSA Vol 12 No 14 1794 NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1840)   RMS IV (2437) 1575 on original of 1561 RMS VI (1467) 1603, on original of 1600, (1729) 1606 RMS VII (1508)

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Olrig Table

Olrig Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Easter Murkill 4½d (18d) 1549 1607 ND 1768 Thomson(1822) RSS IV (202) 1549. 9d Murkle-be-est (i.e. by east) in RMS XI (53) 1661. RS36/2/188v 1607 says ¼ of

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Latheron Text Summary

Latheron   Principal Sources   OSA Vol 17 No 3 1796 NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1840)   RMS I (666) 1377-8 RMS II (942) 1467-8, (1300) 1477, (2371) 1497 RMS III (354) 1526, (475, 476) 1527, (2450) 1541,

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Latheron Table

Latheron NLS Dep.313/3624/13 Plan of the Estate of Langwell, 1857 – abbreviated to 313/3624/13 in Map Sources Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Bruan     ND 3139 Roy(FC) Thomson(1822) Broch (possible) Bruan – ND

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Latheron in the late 17th century

Latheron in the late 17th century   GD96/679/48 is a document which gives us a great deal of land-assessment information about the parish of Latheron. Essentially it is a summary for landlord or factor giving the names of the farms,

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