One of the initial steps in establishing a new burgh was the provision of formally laid out plots of land within the burgh, known as burgage plots or tofts. Those allocated a plot were expected …

And it may be noticed that only eight burghs are mentioned in these early charters?Berwick, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Haddington, Rox burgh, Stirling, Perth and St. Andrews: Linlithgow …

Case study: Weavers in the Royal Burgh of Perth Occupations: Spinning – turning the flax into yarn on a spinning wheel (spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves in 1764)

Register containing the state and condition of every burgh within the kingdom of Scotland, in the year 1692. [Compiled on the orders (1691) of the Convention of Royal Burghs.

Following the 1833 Burgh Reform Act and the Municipal Corporations Report, the steadily growing electoral franchise brought new blood into municipal life and Victorian philanthropy gifted new …

The Burgh enclosure is situated in south-east Suffolk, a few miles north- west of the town of Woodbridge. It is the largest Iron Age fortification in Suffolk and is the only cerrain Iron Age …

Burgh is, in fact, the crucial figure for this reading. His wridngs from the 1740s through 1774 span the all-important transidon from the nostalgic opposidon to the progressive opposidon.