Digitised copy of State of Tiree augmentations, 1791. Contains a table showing the ‘State [of] Augmentation arising from Farms Set in Tiry Whitsunday 1791’. The table contains the details of augmentation, old rent and new rent for Hector McLean at Hynish and Mannel, as well as interest paid on a sum laid out on the Minister’s Farm. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of a Report by Mr Raspe to the Argyll Marble Company at Edinburgh (Icolmkill [Iona] Marble Inspection), 1790. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Description of farms in Tiree. Contains observations made by ‘the minister McColl’ to the Duke of Argyll upon ‘the situation of improvements in Tiry in consequence of a conversation with his Grace in August 1786’. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Description of farms in Tiree, 1782. Contains a table recording: the old extent in maill lands; number of tenants in each farm; name of farm; situation; rent in 1771; new rent; schemed rent; rate per acre of arable and meadow, pasture, moss and blown land; acres contained in arable, meadow, pasture, moss, blown land, total; souming; bolls sowing; total souming and sowing; rate thereof in shillings and pence; Scarinish [?]; great [?] moss; expiration of old or present leases; rent accepted. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of State of Tiree augmentations, 1781. Contains a table showing the ‘State of Augmentation arising from Farms Set in Tiry at Whitsunday 1781’. The names of tenants are included, along with details of augmentation, old rent and new rent. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of List of inhabitants in the island of Tiree, 1776.
In 1776 the Duke of Argyll directed his chamberlain in Tiree to undertake a census of the island. The census recorded the names and ages of inhabitants in each occupied dwelling in the island. The number of cows and horses owned is sometimes recorded, and whether or not they were well disposed towards the Duke of Argyll (e.g. ‘sober and honest’, ‘a good tenant’). There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Estimate for draining lochs in Tiree by George Langlands, 1773. Contains ‘the levill and expence’ of draining Loch Phuil, Loch Barapoll, Loch Heyllipoll, Loch Vassapoll, and Loch Kirkapoll. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree (2 sets), 1772. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: referring to previous instructions issued; building of mill; exporting cattle; establishing a village and harbour; rent in arrears; executing warnings against tenants who could be removed. The second set is a duplicate of the first. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree, 1771. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: rents; over population of Tiree; establishing a fishing village; present system of husbandry including runrigs, introducing wheeled carriages, sand blowing, cutting bent, pulling barley, gredden, distilleries, introducing flax and hemp; mills; the minister’s Glebe; taking bear [barley] in payments of rent; draining lochs; roads in Tiree; selling of wood. There is no transcript available for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
