Mackenzie, George, 1630-1714 (Viscount Tarbat | 1st Earl of Cromarty)
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Note about the people of Rona, 15 December 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/306
Scope and Contents
Note about the people of Rona [Rònaigh/North Rona] taken from John MacCulloch's The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland that they are Roman Catholic, that each summer a boat is sent to Lewis [Eilean Leòdhais] to the Earl of Seaforth with 'the excresence of above thirty souls', something which the islanders 'exce[e]d[ingly] bewail'. Their annual payment to the Earl is 'some quantity of meal stitched up in sheeps skins and feathers of seafowls'. It is noted that...
Dates:
15 December 1885
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of:
107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Queries to My Lord Tarbat from Mr Lloyd of Oxon, after 1690
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [38.2]
Scope and Contents
An Oxford colleague's list of questions about resources for Irish studies in Scotland, probably for remanding by Gregory to his old ally in the Edinburgh Visitation troubles, "My Lord Tarbat", who was George Mackenzie, Viscount Tarbat, first Earl of Cromarty.
Dates:
after 1690
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