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TitleOrkney feuds and the '45 / by R.P. Fereday

Author

Place of publicationKirkwall

Year of publication1980

MaterialBook

ISBNM0003561OR

NotesClass number: Orkney Room 941.07 Y; In memoriam E.W.M.

This book examines the quarrels of some Orkney lairds in the first half of the eighteenth century and the lairds' relations with successful Earls of Morton who held the Lordship of Orkney and Shetland.
Chapter headings: The Two Captain Moodies; Murder in Broad Street; The Return of Sir James Steuart; A Feud Continued; Affray at Graemeshall; Earl and Lairds before the '45; Jacobites by name; The Northern Expedition; Retribution; Moodie's Revenge; Caves and Prisons; The Earl and the Rebellion.
Illustrations: Map of the North of Scotland; Captain James Moodie, R.N.; Christiana Crawford; map of Walls and Flotta; Bailie Fea's House; James Douglas, Earl of Morton; map of Burray and Holm Sound; Bismar and Pundlar [weight measures]; William Balfour of Trenaby; Dunrobin Castle; map of Deer Sound and Shapinsay; Captain Benjamin Moodie; map of Westray; Gentleman's Ha; Alexander Stewart; James Douglas, Earl of Morton, and his family.