OS1/19/11/17

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Upper Whitefield Upper Whitefield
Upper Whitefield
Upper Whitefield
Upper Whitefield
William Bowick (Tenant)
Mr. Walter Napier (Parish Schoolmaster)
Alfred H.W. Farrell Esq. Davo
Revd. [Reverend] J Mitchell (Garvock)
024.01 A farm Steading, having Servants Cottage gardens etc attached. The property of Michael Farrell Esq Davo.
Sheriff's Kettle Sheriff's Kettle
Sheriff's Kettle
Sheriff's Kettle
Mr. Walter Napier
Alfred H.W. Farrell Esqr.
Kenneth Clarke (Brownieleys)
024.04 "In a hollow on the East Side of this parish is Said to be the place where the Sheriff was boiled. The tradition is this, and affords a Sad Specimen of the barbarity of the time of James I., about 1420. Melville was the laird of Glenbervie, and Sheriff of the Mearns had, by a strict exercise of his authority rendered himself obnoxious to the Surrounding barons, who having teased the King by repeated complaints against him, - at last, in a fit of impatiance, the King said to Barclay laird of Mathers, who had come with another complaint "Sorrow gin that that Sheriff were Soddon and Supped in brie", - "As your Majesty pleases", Said Barclay and immediately withdrew - went and assembled his neighbours, the lairds of Lauriston, Arbuthnott, Pitarrow, and Halkerton - appointed a great hunting party in the forest of Garvock, to which they kindly invited the devoted Melville. And having privately got ready a large Kettle of boiling water in a retired place, they decoyed unsuspecting Melville to the fatal Spot, Knocked him down, Stripped him, and threw him into the boiling Kettle. And after he was boiled or Soddon for Some time, they took each a Spoonful of the Soup." New Statistical Account of Scotland, page 34.
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