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Paperback, [EAN: 9781130751789], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, 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. 1818 Excerpt: ...allowed to supply the inhabitants with bread, and ad mitted burgess, on account of the bakers of the town being deficient in baking good bread 1681 Two Students of Divinity, from Poland, supported at the expence of the town during their studies, for promoting the Protestant religion 1687 The funeral of the Laird of Drum, in Drum's Aisle, attended by the magistrates and the citizens, under arms 1689 The Pope tried, condemned, and burnt in effigy, at the cross of Aberdeen, 11th January, by the Students of the Marischal College, in number 99 I698 Three of the town's Serjeants deprived of their offices, imprisoned, put in the stocks, and fed on bread and water, for some time, and afterwards banished from the town, with their wives and families, for ever, for allowing James Gordon, brother of Arradoul, to escape from prison, he being committed for the murder of George Leith of Overhall-A nunnery of six young women, four priests, and a Popish school, kept by two women, for young children, established at Aberdeen 1703 The public bells of the town ordered to be rung at eight, in place of nine o'clock at night CHAPTER CHAPTER V. SECTION II. Political affairs of the borough--Public debt contracted during the civil wars, SfC.--Opposition by the Burgesses to Assessments--Ecclesiastical authority--Quakers--Character and habits of the people, SfC.--Trade, and progress of Manufactures, $c.--Post Office--Progress of Printing--George Jamieson, painter, fyc.--Pestilence and famine--Various domestic matters--Table of Mortmains for benevolent purposes--of Assessments, Sc.--of Births--and of Prices of Provisions, %c. From A.D. 1633 To A.D. 1707 In reviewing the public transactions during the former part of this aera, nothing has been discovered but the violence of party spirit,..., 9, History, 4762, Africa, 4808, Americas, 16252761, Arctic & Antarctica, 4884, Asia, 4921, Australia & Oceania, 4935, Europe, 4995, Middle East, 5032, Russia, 4853, United States, 5035, World, 4873, Ancient Civilizations, 5011, Military, 4987, Historical Study & Educational Resources, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<