Document on vellum, headed 'In the Great Roll the twentieth year of the reign of Lord Majesty King George the Second. Alexander Earle of Eglinton late principal sheriff of the County of Renfrew accompting by [?] Maxwell Gow, his deputy. [etc.]

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Verlag: 1750., 1750

Manuscript document, 300 X 290 mm., giving details on 14 lines of a payment and dated at the foot 'Edinr. 31. January 1750.' [Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (10 February 1723 25 October 1769), was a Scottish peer. He was the Grand Master Mason of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1750-51. Lord Eglinton was one of the first of the Scottish landowners to carry out improvements on his estates. He planned and built the conservation village of Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, in 1769 around the basic plan of a capital 'A'. The Earl introduced the young James Boswell to the joys of London society in the early 1760s, and figures prominently in Boswells London Journal, 1762-63. The Earl was shot on the beach near his own estate of Ardrossan by an excise officer or Gaudger (Scots) named Mungo Campbell on 24 October 1769 following a dispute about the latter's right to bear arms on the Earl's grounds. The Earl died from his abdominal wounds late that evening. Campbell was convicted of murder but died by his own hand before the sentence could be carried out.] Wikipaedia. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24160

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Titel: Document on vellum, headed 'In the Great ...
Verlag: 1750.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1750
Einband: Softcover