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		<title>Broadside entitled &#8216;Trial&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This report begins: &#8216;A full, true, and particular Account of the Trial of Mr David Bartie, writer, before the High Court of Justiciary, yesterday, for violating the person of Margaret Gray, a girl fourteen years of age, servant in the house in which the pannel lodged, in East Cumberland Street, Edinburgh, and which Trial occupied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II. for more click here]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerinoch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino (1688 – 18 August 1746) was a Scottish nobleman and an officer in the Jacobite army. for more click here]]></description>
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		<title>David Leslie, Lord Newark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c. 1600–1682) was a cavalry officer and General in the English Civil War and Scottish Civil Wars. A son of Patrick Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores, he fought for the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus as a professional soldier during the Thirty Years&#8217; War. for more click here]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1582 – 4 April 1661) was a Scottish soldier in Dutch, Swedish and Scottish service. Born illegitimate and raised as a foster child, he subsequently advanced to the rank of a Dutch captain, a Swedish Field Marshal, and in Scotland became lord general in command of the Covenanters, privy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The occupation by Cromwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[7 Julie 1650.—There was no Session holdine from ye 7 of Julie 1650 until the 26 of December 1651, be reasone of the great troubles and warrs betwixt Scotland and England. The Scots armie lying in Leigour (i.e., leaguer) in Leith and about it, and after the defeat at Dunbar the ministers and most part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadside ballad entitled &#8216;The Showman&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first verse reads: &#8216;Ye envious Critics, try an&#8217; guess my name : / Thousands of times ye&#8217;ve seen an&#8217; heard the same : / Millions of times ye&#8217;ve given me offence, / But I must say, it&#8217;s for the want of sense.&#8217; It was published by William Smith of 3 Bristo Port, Edinburgh, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insane man</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[5 Agust 1630 zeirs.—Ordained Jn hunter distracted of his wytte to be put in a darke howse and shekels to be put on hime &#038; entertained wt vivers. (Note.—The Kirk-Session must have regarded this insane man as dangerous, and it was common until quite lately to put shackles on such persons. &#8221; Vivers &#8221; means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rev. William Wishart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sixt of May 1630,—Mr Johne Max- «/ &#038; well accompanied wt Mr Andrew Ramsay Mr Wm. Struthers Mr David Mitchell the said Mr Johne haveing preached &#038; haveing commissioune frome ye Bishope of Sanctandreis ye presentatione &#038; collatione being read formallie proceided in receaving Mr William Wishert to be minister of Leith]]></description>
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		<title>Jougs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was an iron collar fastened by a short chain to a wall, often of the parish church, or to a tree or to a mercat cross. The collar was placed round the offender&#8217;s neck and fastened by a padlock. Time spent in the jougs was intended to shame an offender publicly. Jougs were used [...]]]></description>
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