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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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FORFAR [town] | Forfar | New Stat: [Statistical] Account Old Stat: [Statistical] Account Fullarton's Gazateer County Map |
038 | "The town of Forfar has been from time immemorial the head burgh of the County, & it was also the sole seat of the Sheriff Court until within the last few years, when a sheriff substitute was appointed for Dundee & its immediate neighborhood. In the earliest notices that exist relative to Forfar, its Castle is described as a royal residence; and in the accounts of the Chamberlain of the Royal Household in the reign of Alexander III, & of some preceding monarchs, a charge is entered for the King's gardeners at Forfar. It is probable that the castle, the occasional residence of the monarch, & the residence of the sheriff of the county, gave rise to the fame of Forfar, & undoubtedly these circumstances secured to it its privileges as a Royal burgh. Nothing is known of the date of its original charter, but it was a burgh before the reign of Robert Bruce, as the authorities of Forfar gave evidence During his reign that Dundee was a Royal burgh." New: Stat: [Statistical] Account. |
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