Articles and regulations of the Corresponding and Improving Society of Farmers in Renfrewshire..
Corresponding and Improving Society of Farmers in Renfrewshire.
Yeats, James,active 1788,former owner.StEdNL
Paisley: : Printed by John Neilson.,
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
ESTC
The recto of the front flyleaf has the manuscript inscription "Erskine Book / James Yeats". The recto of the first blank leaf after p. 8 has the manuscript inscription "Kilbarchen January 4th 1788 / we William Witt & James Yeats farmors in / Ersken agree to the proceeding artekels & has / paid to the tresour' the soume of ten shillings / sterling eich / William Whyte James Yeats / Ersken January 4th 1788 / William Nilson in Glen[???] farmor in Ersken / agree to the proceeding artekls and promises / to pay to the tresorour of the parish the / soum of ten shillings sterling / soum of ten [shillings?] [???] [sterling?] / Kilbarchen January 14th 1788 / William Whyt". The recto of the following blank leaf reads "John Davidson from / James Yeats received 27 pounds / on the 20th of February 1788 / and also William White for / working to James Yeats (already / mentioned) received 37 pounds / and others that were working with him namely William White".
Corresponding and Improving Society of Farmers in Renfrewshire
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