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Issue 22, 2007 Issue No 22 NEWSLETTER of Perth & Kinross Council Archive Honorary Presidents: Provost of Perth & Kinross Council and Sir William Macpherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie Dundee versus Perth: Sixteenth Century Battles for Precedence ( page 4) Also: Perthshire and Slavery p6 Victorian Police Pensions p9 Adam Anderson, Politician p13 Notes from the Chair p2 News from the Archive p2 Perth & Kinross Council Archive, AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth PH2 8EP, Tel: 01738 477012 Email: [email protected] Notes from the Chair We start the 2007/2008 session with an exciting and varied pro- gramme of talks to look forward to. Some of the subjects may be fa- miliar, others less so. But I know we shall enjoy all the talks. A diary of the talks is available as an insert inside this issue and the next one is by James Irvine Robertson on 18 October at 2pm, titled ‘Slavery & the Stewarts of Garth’ The Friends' summer outing this year was to Tay Salmon Fishing at Seggieden on Saturday 1 Sep- tember. The afternoon was bright and sunny perfect weather for our picnic and most enjoyable boat trips and walk. In the Archive there are many references from the mid-16th century to the Seggieden Estate and its fishery. There is no longer any fishing there, but the present owner, a wildlife enthusi- ast, has plans to develop the left bank of the Tay so that walkers and cyclists may have easy access and the opportunity to sail along and across the river in specially designed boats or water-taxis. (These and other plans to develop recreational facilities in the Fair City can be seen on the Tay Salmon website at http://www.taysalmon.co.uk) This year the Scottish Records Association Conference will be held in Perth at Perth Concert Hall, on Friday 16 November between 10am-5pm. This year's title is Keeping the Faith, and the confer- ence will focus on historical records created by religious bodies in Scotland. While conference talks and discussions are held in the Norie Miller Studio, the foyer will feature and information exchange and displays from various archives and related organizations, including the Friends of the Perth & Kinross Council Archive. Our stand will offer access to our website and data-bases. We shall be in good company, alongside the National Archives of Scotland, the Scottish Archive Network and the Scottish Catholic Archives. Members of the public are invited to visit these displays free of charge while admission to what promises to be a fascinating conference costs £10 for members and £13 for non-members. Since the AGM in May, Provost John Hulbert has agreed to be one of our Honorary Presidents, and we look forward to welcoming him to our meetings. At the same time, his predecessor, the out- going Provost Bob Scott, has been created an Honorary Life Member of the Friends. Also since the AGM, David Wilson, the newsletter's editor, has been co-opted to serve on the Committee. With all good wishes Margaret Borland-Stroyan 2 News from the Archive The Archive staff and Friends volunteer Jackie Hay have been con- centrating recently on producing the Cry Freedom programme as part of October’s Archive Awareness Month (see page 6 for details). Ar- chives Awareness is part of an annual campaign to raise the profile of archives through activities and events which are publicised locally and nationally. The theme of the 2007 campaign is ‘Freedom and Liberty’, looking at the struggle for rights in history, including the Chartists, the Suffragettes and the 200th anniversary of the Parliamentary abolition of the transatlantic slave trade – which is what we’ve been focussing on. If you’re interested in finding out more about events nationwide, you can log on to http://www.archiveawareness.com/ Outreach like this is an important part of our job – but there would be no point in letting people know about our collections if we didn’t have any to show them! So we continue to welcome additions and new collections, which we arrange and list. Recent accessions and accruals include legal papers and personal correspondence, 1698-1826, concerning members of the Small of Finegand family and family letters of the Smeaton and Brugh families, 1784-1834. Although they are not originals, these letters are full of news sent from London, Edinburgh, Canada, India and Perthshire about the health of family members, their births, marriages, deaths and activities. The collection also contains a will by Andrew Brugh Captain of the United East India Company, a letter excepting the orphan John Brugh to the Upper School of Kidderpore and a presentation by the Earl of Kinnoull in favour of James Burgh to be minister of the United Parishes of Trinity Gask and Kinkell. Angling clubs have also featured strongly recently, and we’ve received records from both the Tulloch Angling Club, 1889-1949 and the Luncarty Angling Club, 1963-1983. We’re also lucky to receive a copy of Irvine Butterfield’s ms, 'A Perthshire Whiskey Trail'. The Friends have donated conservation money towards the treatment of an important recent acces- sion – the first three volumes of the County of Perth car registration registers, 1903-1921. These con- tain descriptions of cars, their owners and registration numbers, as well as when the cars were first and last registered and were thought to be lost, so it’s good news that they’ve survived. Finally, we’re really pleased to receive John Kerr’s collection, the Atholl Experience, which now has the reference number MS249. You may have read about this in the press, and how the collection is the culmination of decades of study into the settlements, place names and people of Atholl. The work of 45 years, John Kerr’s research ranges from the 13th to 20th centuries, covers 500 square miles of Perthshire and contains 1.5 million words and 2700 photographs – and its here in the Ar- chive for people to see! Jan Merchant 3 Snowballs and Fisticuffs: Rivalry between Perth and Dundee in the Sixteenth Century Every country has its local rivalries, some more well-known than others. Our most famous is between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Gowing up near Portree on Skye, it was enough for me to know that people from Staffin were un- sophisticated country bumpkins, while the inhabitants of Lewis were strange foreigners, whose Gaelic even had a different word for water. It was only recently that I discovered the rivalry between Perth and Dundee. It began as a dispute over navigation rights on the Tay and reached a peak in the sixteenth century, focusing oddly on parlia- mentary ceremonial. In the riding of parliament, the procession marking the opening of the Scottish parliament, the entire member- ship processed from Holyrood Palace to the parliament house. It emphasised the majesty of parliament and the unity of the nation. Yet at the same time it emphasised hierarchy. Your place directly related to your status: the more important you were, the closer to the rear you processed, creating a crescendo of status, culminating with the honours of Scotland (crown, sword and sceptre). Places were hotly contested and disputes led to protests and even violence. Nobles who felt that they had not been given their proper place refused to join the procession. One dispute delayed the start of parliament for five hours. Some burghs, Dundee and Perth in particular, were just as concerned about their place in the pecking order. The longest-running dispute involved Dundee and Perth. It began in December 1567 when a ‘tumult happynnit upoun the gait of Edinburgh betuix the nychtbouris [of Dundee] and the inhabitantis of Sanctjohn- nestoun in tyme of parliament’. There was a brawl! According to a Victorian historian of Perth, it ‘raged with lu- dicrous vehemence on the part of the Dundonians’. In 1579, it erupted again. The convention of burghs at Glasgow in February 1580 was ordered to decide the is- sue ‘according to the auncientie of the saidis burrowis’. Commissioners from Dundee and Perth (both insisting on their right to second place) agreed to submit to arbitrators chosen by the convention. Before anyone could take a breath, Stirling’s commissioner declared: ‘quhatsumever thing is decernit betuix Dondie and Perth pre- judge nocht Striveling and the privilege it hes to second place’. In spite of this unhelpful intervention, it was de- cided that Dundee and Perth should each choose three burgesses to meet at Rait and that those six should choose an ‘overisman’ with a casting vote It is easy to imagine the groans of exasperation at the next convention of burghs when they found that nobody had even turned up at Rait! The convention ruled that Dundee and Perth should ‘produce thair allegeances, defenssis and ressonis’ in writing at Edinburgh in April 1581. At that meeting, there was ‘lang debaitt and controversie’ between Perth and Dundee, while Stirling reasserted its claim. The dispute was ‘swa debaitabill and intricate’ that they asked the privy council to decide. The privy council or- dered the burghs to decide and Perth was given ‘the priority before Dundie’ but only until the next parliament. When parliament met in November, it handed the decision back to the burghs, demanding a final resolution at their next convention in 1582 at Perth. Perth’s dean of guild, Henry Adamson, raised a letter at the court of session ordering the burghs to resolve the dispute. He secured the signatures of the king, the treasurer, William Ruthven, earl of Gowrie (a good friend to Perth), and the abbot of Dunfermline. The letter (drafted by the council of Perth) ordered the burghs to 4 ‘considder onlye the maist ancient burgh’, while noting ‘the antiquitie of Perth’.
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