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Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 1 (of 2)

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A chronological compilation of short, dated articles surveys everyday life in Scotland across the era spanning the Reformation to the Revolution. It concentrates on domestic occurrences: famines, pestilences, weather and astronomical anomalies, superstition, penal practices, economic hardships, and local anecdotes drawn from contemporary records. Political events are sketched only when necessary for context, while many passages preserve the language of original narrators. The arrangement favors detached entries to let incidents speak for themselves, offering material useful to natural historians, economists, and students of popular belief, and aiming to show how ordinary people thought, suffered, and managed their affairs.

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Title: Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 1 (of 2)

Author: Robert Chambers

Release date: May 25, 2024 [eBook #73694]

Language: English

Original publication: Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1859

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DOMESTIC
ANNALS OF SCOTLAND.

DOMESTIC
ANNALS OF SCOTLAND

From the Reformation to the Revolution.

BY ROBERT CHAMBERS,
F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Sc., &c.

SECOND EDITION.

VOLUME I.

Bannatyne House, Strathmore.

W. & R. CHAMBERS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

MDCCCLIX.

Edinburgh:
Printed by W. and R. Chambers.