. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. y Monday;a sheriff small debtcourt on the firstThursday of February, April, June, August, October,and December; and a dean of guild court is held asoccasion requires. The six incorporated trades—square-men, hammermen, coopers, tailors, shoemakers, andweavers — early and voluntarily renounced their ex-clusive privileges, in advance of most similar bodies inScotland. The corporation property, comprising 422acres of arable land, the town hall, the towns mills,the meal market, the shamble
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. y Monday;a sheriff small debtcourt on the firstThursday of February, April, June, August, October,and December; and a dean of guild court is held asoccasion requires. The six incorporated trades—square-men, hammermen, coopers, tailors, shoemakers, andweavers — early and voluntarily renounced their ex-clusive privileges, in advance of most similar bodies inScotland. The corporation property, comprising 422acres of arable land, the town hall, the towns mills,the meal market, the shambles and washing-houses, etc.,yielded a revenue of £1498 in 1832, of £1980 in 1862,of £2939 in 1875, and of £2539 in 1882. The municipaland the parliamentary constituency numbered 1232 and1009 in 1883, when the annual value of real propertywithin the parliamentary burgh amounted to £32,641,15s. 2d., against £13,854 in 1866, £10,424 in 1875,and £25,941, 13s. in 1882. Pop of parliamentary burgh(1841)4594, (1851)7534,(1861)7060,(1871) 6866, (1881)8498, of whom 4166 were males and 4508—4299 in 1871. Seal of Irrine. IRVINE —were in the royal or police burgh. Houses (1881) 1878inliabited, 252 vacant, 9 building. The original church belonged till the Reformation tothe monks of Kilwinning; later it was served from 1618to 1640 by David Dickson (1583-1663), hymn-Amter andcommentator. In 1546 the town suffered much fromthe plague ; in 1640 twelve women were executed at itfor the crime of witchcraft; and it bore a considerableshare in the struggles of the Covenanters. In 1783, inconnection with the Rev. Hugh White, second ministei-of the Relief congregation, and with several other in-fluential townsfolk, Elizabeth Buchan (1738-91) herefounded the fanatical sect of the Buchanites. Expelledin the following year by the magistrates, and pelted outof the town, she was joined at Kilmaurs by 45 of herdisciples, and thence proceeded in a kind of exultantmarch to Closeburn in Dumfriess
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