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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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BOOT HILL | Boot Hill Boot Hill Boot Hill Boothill Motehill Moothill Mute-hill |
J. Condie Esqr. Factor Revd Dr [Reverend Doctor] Crombie Mr. William Keay New Statistical Acct. [Account] |
086 | Boot Hill [continued] of trees. The church, of which the aisle remains, seems to have been built on the Mote-hill by the first Viscount Stormont about the year 1624. 'The people in the Highlands', it is said 'call the Boothill at this day Tom-a-mhoid, i.e. the hill where justice is administered'. Is the 'Gallows Knowe' connected with this? or the fact that Macbeth, the earliest sheriff in the shire of Perth, was styled Sheriff of Scone". New Statistical Acct. [Account] "Boot Hill" is the only name by which it is Known in the neighbourhood. Tradition says, that the Barons carried clay or eart [earth] in their boots from their respective lands and made this hill or Knoll. |
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[Page] 44Parish of Scone
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