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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1907 Excerpt: ... between 1683 and 1722. Mr. Abercrummie became the minister of the parish in 1670, and died there in 1722. Robert Pitcairn gives this Description at length in his Families of the Name of Kennedy, 4, Edin., 1830, p. 161; and it also appears in William Robertson's Historic Ayrshire, sm. 4, Edin., 1891, p. 83. Fokfau. (P. 21.) The second contribution to this volume lias the following heading: 'Information for Sir Robert Sibbald anent the Shyre of Forfar by Mr. John Ouchterlony of Guinde.' It appears in the Sibbald Topographical Notices, from which Taitt copied it into the Macfarlane Collections. It is printed in volume i. of the Spottiswoode Miscellany, and also separately, as a private print, with plates, n.d. It gives Descriptions of fifty-five parishes, and these are well written as compared with many of the Descriptions in the first volume. Bishop Nicolson speaks of Ouchterlony as 'an ingenious Gentleman of that Countrey,'1 namely Forfarshire. Its date is probably between 1683 and 1722. Being written for Sibbald, it could not appear in Blaeu. Galloway. (P. 51.) The third contribution has this heading: 'A Large Description of Galloway by the parishes in it, by Mr. Andrew Symson' (p. 51), and it is followed by 'Answers to Queries concerning Galloway, (p. 99), forming together one Description. It contains Accounts of forty-four parishes. It was written for Sibbald, and therefore is not in Blaeu. The original manuscript is in the Advocates' Library (31.7.17), and is in Symson's own script. From this Macfarlane's transcriber copied. 1 Nicolson, Scottish Historical Library, 1702, p. 20. Symson was a Curate of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Minister of the parish of Kirkinner. He speaks of his lot there as having been ' cast in a very pleasant place.' After los...
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