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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurencekirk | Laurencekirk Laurencekirk Laurencekirk |
Revd. [Reverend] James McGowan James Fettes Esqr. (Bailie) Patrick Dickson Esqr. (Town Clerk) |
024.05 | A considerable market town consisting chiefly of Cottage houses with a few of a Superour quality and all having outhouses, gardens &c attached here also is a good Town Hall, Parish Church, Free Church, Episcopal Chapel, Independent Chapel and a room or meeting house for the Baptists, and Three Schools, also Three good Hotels, and Three ordinary public houses, - a market is held here every fortnight for Cattle and grain. The town owes its rise and present appearance to the late Lord Gardenston, who being proprieter of the lands of Johnston on which it is placed gave every encouragement for people to build and reside here, and as a further inducement, obtained a Charter for this town, which made it a free Burgh of Barony, and though by its Charter, is entitled to hold a weekly market there has never as yet been any held. from its charter bearing date 1781 the following is an extract Laurencekirk so far as already built or hereafter to be built upon the lands within the Special bounds and limits viz. within eight hundred and thirty eight yards on each Side of the Kings highway which at this time forms the principal Street of the Village which by these presents is declared to be the territory of the Burgh of Barony (beyond which the rights jurisdiction and privileges conferred upon the inhabitants and community thereof shall not extend) and is now and in all time coming to be called the burgh of barony of Laurencekirk with all powers liberties privileges and jurisdictions whatever pertaining and belonging or which ought to pertain and belong to any free and independent burgh of barony which might be erected in Scotland Since the date of the act of parliment in the twentieth year of the reign of King George the Second entitled An act for taking away and abolishing the heritable jurisdiction in that part of Great Britain called Scotland &c. &c. with full power and privilege to the burgesses [continued on page 42] |
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[Page] 41Ph. [Parish] of Laurencekirk
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