Historical Aberdeen : the Green and Its Story . O o Trinity Chapel 17 shillings was paid him for ringing the bell forMarleborrows victorie. That carries one back togreat events, and gives a glimpse of the burgh sharingin the national rejoicing. But difficult times werein store. In the Rebellion year of 1715, DavidCruickshank, who had just been appointed bellmanin room of James Young, deceased, was paid fourteenshillings for ringing the bell at King GeorgesProclamatione, and it may have been a desire tomaintain a strict neutrality that led the cautiouscraftsmen to pay their bellman a similiar a
Historical Aberdeen : the Green and Its Story . O o Trinity Chapel 17 shillings was paid him for ringing the bell forMarleborrows victorie. That carries one back togreat events, and gives a glimpse of the burgh sharingin the national rejoicing. But difficult times werein store. In the Rebellion year of 1715, DavidCruickshank, who had just been appointed bellmanin room of James Young, deceased, was paid fourteenshillings for ringing the bell at King GeorgesProclamatione, and it may have been a desire tomaintain a strict neutrality that led the cautiouscraftsmen to pay their bellman a similiar amount forringing the bell at proclaiming King James. Inaddition to the churchyard, the ground of theTrinity Monastery included a kell-yaird, usuallyfarmed out, and a flower and fruit garden which theTrades found some difficulty in guarding against the Young Aberdeen of two centuries ago, so that itwas sometimes needful to pay for watching the fruit inTrinity yard for nine weeks on end. But we must hasten to an end with the story ofthe Trinity
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