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U. P. Manse (continued)
thoroughfare - the Proprietors Agents on the one side, maintain that it is allowed on sufferance, & people claiming a Right on the other hand, from its being an old Mill Road to a Corn mill which stood opposite Blantyre Mills, near the "Suspension Bridge". It is kept in repair by the Proprietor of "Bothwell Castle" & "Blantyre Works". It has never been contested & probably may remain so, & therefore has been described on Trace as an "occupation Road, Public by sufferance", as given upon the authority of Mr. Miller, Manager of "Blantyre Works" & Factor.