Customs Prosecution

by | Jan 28, 2011 | Miscellaneous

Alloa CustomsCollectors Quarterly AccountsKincardine Shipping Details1742 – 1829 A Prosecution having been commenced in the Court of Exchequer Candlemas Term, 1791, By English Bill against John Jameson, John Stein, James Stein, Richard Philp, Partners in Trade...

Correspondence

by | Jan 22, 2011 | Miscellaneous

19. MR MASON TIDE SURVEYOR AND BOATMEN ON THE KINGS BOAT                  FURTHER LETTERS RELATING TO. Kings Boat at Kincardine Destroyed No 98.                 23 May 1801 Honourable Sirs,      We beg leave to transmit your Honors the enclosed letter this Day...

Poaching on the Sabbath.

by | Jan 20, 2011 | Miscellaneous

Another amusing article we discovered about the River Forth was a report from the Kirk Session meeting on 3rd Jabuary 1694. It stated that two church elders came across a group of 40 – 50 people poaching on the river. If this was not bad enough in itself, they...