Burgh of barony
A burgh of barony was a type of Scottish town (burgh).
Burghs of barony were distinct from
foreign trade. In practice very few burghs of barony developed into market towns
.
Over 300 such burghs were created: the last was
matriculated by his office: a "coronet suitable to a burgh of barony" was a red mural crown, whereas that for a police burgh was blue in colour.[1]
All burghs were abolished in 1975 by the
British crown
today.
Notes
- ^ R M Urquhart, Scottish Burgh and County Heraldry, London 1973
References
- Smith, William Charles (1878), , in Baynes, T. S. (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 62–64.
- Bateson, Mary (1911), , in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 268–273.
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