The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway
The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway

Author: Andrew Agnew

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-03-13

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781010155799

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The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway
The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway

Author: Andrew Agnew

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781458919335

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXX THE LANDS OF LARNE AND KILWAUGHTER A.d. 1650 to 1659 Syne to the sea he tuk the way, And at Lochriane in Galloway He schippyt with all his menze; To Cragfergus soree coming is he. Babbouk. Cromwell, profiting by the wrangles which prevented Parliamentary Protesters from co-operating with malignants, soon reduced the stern Presbyterians of Galloway to entire submission to the sterner Independents. As deaf to the remonstrances of presbyters as of prelates, he superseded their sheriff, established his own courts of justice and of supply, and imposed smart fines on any of the baronage who wagged their tongues against the conqueror. Arbitrary as this may sound, it was mildness itself compared with his dealings with Scotsmen across the Channel, where his system was more thorough than that of Wentworth himself. Mutterings of discontent by Galloway owners in Ulster were answered by confiscation, and resistance by deportation. Great was the alarm among Galloway undertakers, such as the sheriff, Sir Robert Adair, Lord Ardes, Sir Robert M'Clellan, and many others who had interest in the Plantation of Ulster, and now received notice to quit.1 Sir Patrick Agnew's estates were amongst the first sequestrated by Cromwell's Commissioners of Revenue; and Sir RobertAdair received a curt notice of their intention of appropriating Ballymena, accompanied by an order to select lands forthwith in Tipperary, to which they proposed to transport his vassalage. i Hill's Plantation of Ulster, 498-510. The sheriffs, father and son, had been frequently called across the Channel in the previous years, both on public and private business. As before said, we are unable accurately to trace the exact nature and length of their tenures in Antrim, although thei...

The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway: Their "Forebears" and Friends, Their Courts and Customs of Their Times with Notes of the Early History, Ecclesias
The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway: Their

Author: Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw

Publisher:

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9781845300869

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Volume 2 covers the League and Covenant, Civil War, the lands of Larne and Kilwaughter, a Cromwellian sheriff, witch-hunting, Rullion Green, the Conventicle Act, the Highland Host, the Killing-Time, the Revolution, the ghost of the Galdenoch, agricultural habits, the Union, the Rising of 1715, Innermessan, Sir Stair, Dettingen, the Scots Fusiliers, the Forty-Five, heritable jurisdictions abolished, the last sheriff, country life in the eighteenth century; with pedigrees and appendices.