Set Adrift upon the World by James Hunter

Author:James Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2016-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

* Like most Scottish tolbooths, Inverness’s served various functions: as a toll or tax collecting point, a town council meeting place, a courthouse and a jail.

* Prior to the twentieth century, only males served on Scottish juries.

† Panel was, and is, the term applied formally to a defendant in Scots law.

* Britain’s penal colony in Australia.

* In Inverness, where it appears to have been taken for granted on all sides that Henrietta was indeed William’s wife, the earlier allegation that Chisholm had entered into a bigamous marriage did not surface, a fact that creates some doubt as to the story’s truth.

* Prior to the Reform Act of 1832, Scottish county electorates, as a result of voting rights being confined to just a few men of property, were vanishingly tiny.

* In Thurso McKid set up a legal practice and went into business. Although he got into financial difficulties after three or four years, those proved temporary. First in Caithness and later in Ross-shire, McKid appears to have done reasonably well.

* His loss of his sheriffdom did not, in the end, impede Cranstoun’s advancement. In 1826 he was made a judge.

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