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Information for John Spottiswoode of that Ilk, Against the Officers of State
Regarding John Spottiswoode's petition to the Scots Parliament for restitution of the lands and barony of New Abbey, or of the 3,000 l., which Charles I promised, but failed to pay Spottiswoode's grandfather, Sir Robert Spottiswoode, when the estate became crown property in 1634. Cf. DNB
Information for John Spottiswoode of That Ilk, Pursuer; Against Alexander Copland of Colliston, MR William Copland, Advocate, His Son, William Turner of Ardwall, and William Craick of Arbigland, Defenders
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansio...
Memorial for John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, Pursuer, Against Alexander Copland of Colliston, and MR William Copland Advocate, His Son, William Craick of Arbigland, and William Turner of Ardwell, Defenders
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansio...
John Spottiswoode
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An estate ledger of 1752-1793, lost since the dispersal sale of Spottiswoode in 1935, is the bases of this enquiry into a once-famous family, their estate and their contribution to the history of Scotland. From his detailed study of the ledger, Tom Barry has identified the 18th-century John Spottiswoode as one of the important agricultural improvers of his age. workmen and tenants, turning a barren stretch of the Lammermuirs into what was to become a paradise of forest and productive farmland. tracing the Berwickshire family through its evolution from turbulent Lammermuir land holders, through dignitaries of Church and state under the Stuarts, to canny lawyers and men of business under the Hanoverians, and fully fledged members of the British upper class under Queen Victorian. During all that time, the family name and blood spread throughout Britain and the colonies, and, through Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia, through the United States.
