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600,000 £. sterling in one year for Estates sold in Scotland

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60,0000 £. sterl. in one year for Estates sold in Scotland
Forbes
£600,000 Sterling in one year for Estates Sold in Scotland
Paton
To Lady Gask
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Forbes
Vol. 9, 1941
Paton
Vol. 3, 248—249
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Date26 Jan 1770
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To L.Lady G.Gask

“A curious Gentleman in EdrEdinburgh,
attentive to public Transactions, has kept an
exact AccomptAccount of the Amount of all the E-
states
sold &and bought in Scotland in the
Circle of one Year; &and they amount to
no less a Sum than six hundred thou-
sand
pounds sterling! O! O! O! Per-
haps
, they will come to a round Milli-
on
in one Year.
JanryJanuary 26. 1770.”
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Forbes, Robert. “£60,0,000 Sterling in one year for Estates Sold in Scotland.” The Lyon in Mourning, vol. 9, Adv.MS.32.6.24, fol. 53r. The Lyon in Mourning Project, edited by Leith Davis, https://lyoninmourning.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/v09.1941.01.html.
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