medieval-atlas/the-church/405

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Poor relief Somewhat over a quarter of the parishes of Scotland have left kirk or more kirk session registers survive. Those shires with no regis session registers covering the period of the famine of the 1690s. ters, or less than three are shown as leaving inadequate documenta From these and other records it can be seen that forty-three parishes tion even in the instance of Selkirkshire where the only surviving carried through a decision to implement the poor law statues and register is of an assessed parish. raise funds in one way or another from the heritors. This map shows «iJ! {/ the distribution of these parishes by shire. The assessed parishes are . "'P{!!P shown as a percentage of the parishes ofall shires from where three r.::!!?? .:. ",,":': ':>. ::::::::::::::::::::?::::::::: Inadequate record No parishes assessed //////// ~~~~~~~~ 1 -g% assessed 1 0 -19% assessed 30 -39% assessed 40 -49% assessed over 50% assessed UJ...LLL.L.l.u Aberdeenshire Longside Angus Kettins Ayrshire Kilmaurs Kilwinning East Lothian Garvald Haddington North Berwick Ormiston Prestonkirk SaItoun Spott Tyninghame Whitekirk Poor relief 1695 to 1707 ~)] o kms 0 50 75 100 2" J i i i i 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 miles Fife Forgan Kennoway Kilconquhar Kingsbams Lanarkshire Carstairs Douglas Lesmahagow Pettinain Midlothian Colinton Corstorphine Cramond Crichton Currie Lasswade Stow Temple Moray Drainie Peebleshire Eddleston Manor Perthshire Blackford Logie Longforgan Monzie Perth Tibbermuir Renfrewshire Greenock Roxburghshire Ashkirk Selkirkshire Galashiels West Lothian Carriden Uphall RM 405