A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830

Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Adam Adam Ferguson agricultural areas Ayrshire became began burgesses burghs of barony cattle cent chapter Church of Scotland clan contemporary cottars cotton council court cultural decades Dundee Earl early East Lothian economic eighteenth century England English estates factory farm farmers gentry Glasgow guild half hand handloom Highland Hume husbandry Ibid improvement industrial revolution instance James John kirk kirk-session labour lairds landowners less linen lived Lord Lothian Lowlands manufacture merchants middle class ministers nineteenth century organised Paisley parish Parliament Parliamentary Papers partly peasants perhaps period Perthshire political poor population Presbyterian puritanism Reformation rent Robert Robertson royal burghs runrig rural schools Scotland London Scots Scottish History Society servants seventeenth century Sinclair Sir John Sinclair social Statistical Account Stirlingshire T. C. Smout tenants town trade tradition Union University wages weavers William witches workers