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RUTHEROLEN (locally pronounced Rilglen)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 941 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUTHEROLEN (locally pronounced Rilglen) , a royal municipal and See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Lanarkshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. of royal burgh (1901) 18,279. It is situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Clyde, 21 M. by the Caledonian railway S.E. of See also:Glasgow, with the E. of which it is connected by a See also:bridge. The See also:parish See also:church stands near the See also:spire of the See also:ancient church where, according to tradition, the treaty was made in 1297 with See also:Edward I., by which See also:Sir See also:John See also:Menteith undertook to betray See also:Wallace to the See also:English. The See also:principal public See also:building is the See also:town See also:hall, dating from 1861. The See also:industries include collieries, chemical See also:works, dye-works, See also:cotton- and See also:paper-See also:mills, See also:chair-making, See also:tube-making, pottery, rope- and twine-works and some See also:shipbuilding. It forms one of the See also:Kilmarnock See also:group of See also:parliamentary burghs, with See also:Dumbarton,7Port-Glasgow, See also:Renfrew and Kilmarnock. Rutherglen was erected into a royal burgh by See also:David I. in 1126. It then included a portion of Glasgow, but in 1226 the boundaries were rectified so as to exclude the whole of the See also:city. In See also:early times it had a See also:castle, which was taken by See also:Robert See also:Bruce from the English in 1313. It was kept in See also:good repair till after the See also:battle of Langside (1568), when it was burnt by See also:order of the See also:regent See also:Moray. In 1679 the See also:Covenanters published their " See also:Declaration and Testimony " at Rutherglen See also:prior to the battles of Drumclog and See also:Bothwell Brig (1679).

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