OS1/21/11/61

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CARLUKE [village] Carluke Rev[eren]d John Wylie
Daniel Rankin Esq
J.L. Stewart Esq
John Hamilton Esq.
019.13 The village of Carluke has within
a few years swelled into the size and
assumed the importance of a thriving
town its present population (1841) amoun=
ting to 2125. It was erected into a
burgh of barony in 1662 under the
name of Kirkstyle. with the privelege
of holding a weekly market and
a fair twice in the year. This
privelege so far as the weekly market
is concerned has not been acted
upon but the town is well supplied
with shops for the sale of bread, butcher meat, and every other article
of provision. The recent act for the
establishment of municipal government
in Scotch towns having been taken
advantage of by Carluke as tax of
sixpence a pound in house rent
is levied for the purpose of supporting
a few constables and of cleaning
and lighting the streets. ****

To those who are acquainted with the town
and Parish of Carluke the former containing
numerous streets of comfortable houses- the
latter fully divided and in a high state
of cultivation the following circumstances
may convey an ides of the very rapid
stride made by the neighbourhood.

There is still alive an individual if not more who remembers since the village of
Carluke contained only 4 cottages with
the Kirk and Manse. *******

Transcriber's notes

There are symbols like X but with dots in each of the 4 interstices of the X. I have interpreted these as asterisks but they do not appear to refer to footnotes anywhere. They seem to fill the line to the RHS at the end of the paragraph. May have been a style adopted by the writer.

David Braidwood - The text between the two sets of Xs is in fact a footnote in the Statistical Account.

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David Braidwood, Ian Muirhead

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