Abstract:IntroductionA document from Inveraray Castle, published in 1963 by the Scottish Record Society, and entitled 'List of Inhabitants on the Argyll Estate, 1779', is probably the earliest known Scottish census. 1 The List records in varying detail something like 14,000 inhabitants resident on the Duke's west Highland estate. Tacksmen and common tenants, ministers and cottars, chamberlains and wood-rangers, merchants, paupers and pedlars, ferrymen, bowmen and drovers, weavers, coopers and servants, these men of Ar… Show more
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