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RENFREW , a royal, municipal and See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police See also:

burgh and See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

RENFREWSHIRE

Renfrewshire, See also:

Scotland, near the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

Clyde, 7 M. W. by N. of See also:

GLASGOW

Glasgow, via Cardonald, by the Glasgow & See also:

South-Western and Caledonian See also:

RAILWAYS

railways (5 M. by road). Pop. (1891) 6777; (19o1) 9296. See also:

INDUSTRIES

Industries include See also:

SHIP

ship-See also:

BUILDING

building (the construction of dredgers and floating docks is a speciality), See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering, See also:

DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing, See also:

WEAVING

weaving, chemicals and See also:

CABINET

cabinet-making. The Clyde See also:

TRUST

trust has constructed a large See also:

DOCK

dock here. Renfrew belongs to the See also:

KILMARNOCK

Kilmarnock See also:

DISTRICT

district See also:

GROUP

group of See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary burghs (with Kilmarnock, See also:

DUMBARTON

Dumbarton, Rutherglen and See also:

PORT

Port Glasgow). See also:

Robert III. gave a See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter in 1396, but it was a burgh (Renifry) at least 250 years earlier. About 116o See also:

Walter Fitzalan, the first high steward of Scotland, built a See also:

castle on an See also:

EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence by the See also:

side of the Clyde (still called Castle See also:

Hill), the See also:

ORIGINAL

original seat of the royal See also:

house of See also:

Stewart. See also:

Close to the town, on the site of Elderslie House, Somerled, See also:

lord of the Isles, was defeated and slain in 1164 by the forces of See also:

Malcolm IV., against whom he had rebelled. In 1404 Robert II. bestowed upon his son See also:

James (afterwards James I.) the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of See also:

Baron of Renfrew, still See also:

BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne by the See also:

prince of See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

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