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SELKIRK , a royal and See also:police See also:burgh and the See also:county See also:town of See also:Selkirkshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901) 6292. It lies on See also:Ettrick See also:Water, about 3 M. above its confluence with the See also:Tweed, 64 m. S. of See also:Galashiels by the See also:North See also:British Railway See also:Company's See also:branch See also:line, of which it is the See also:terminus. It is picturesquely situated on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill on the right See also:bank of the See also:river, See also:close to which are the See also:mills and factories. The public buildings include the county buildings, public See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, library and the town hall (with a See also:spire See also:Ito ft. high). There are statues of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott in his See also:sheriff's See also:robes, and Mungo See also:Park, the See also:African explorer, who was educated at the See also:grammar school. Woollen manufactures (tweeds, tartans, plaids and shawls) are the See also:principal See also:industry, but the town is also an important agricultural centre. With Galashiels and See also:Hawick it belongs to the Hawick or Border See also:group of See also:parliamentary burghs. Immediately See also:south of the town are the beautiful grounds of the Haining.
As its See also:early name (Scheleschyrche) indicates, Selkirk originally consisted of a number of shiels (huts), in the See also:forest beside which a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church had been planted by the See also:Culdees of Old See also:Melrose. See also:David I., while See also:prince of Cumbria, founded in 1113 the See also:abbey, which was removed fifteen years afterwards to See also:Kelso, and also erected a See also:castle. Captured by See also:Edward I., by whom it was enlarged and strengthened, the fortress was retaken by See also:Wallace in 1297, and remained in the hands of the Scots till the See also:battle of Halidon Hill (1333), when it was delivered to the See also:English. It was probably destroyed in 1417 when Sir See also:Robert See also:Umfraville, See also:governor of See also:Berwick, set See also:fire to the town, and nothing remains of it See also:save some See also:green mounds and the name See also:Peel Hill. It is significant of the havoc wrought during the Border warfare that there is not in Selkirk, in spite of its antiquity, any See also:building two See also:hundred years old. Of the eighty burghers who marched to See also:Flodden (1513) under See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Brydone, the town clerk, only the See also:leader survived, with a banner captured from the English; he was knighted by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James V. This banner is locally supposed to be the one See also:borne by the Weavers' See also:Corporation in the See also:annual ceremony of See also:Riding the See also:Common, but the claim cannot be verified. The See also:charter granted by David I. and other muniments having perished, James V. renewed the charter in 1533, with the right to enclose t000 acres of the common and leave to elect a See also:provost. After the battle of Philiphaugh (1645), David See also:Leslie, the See also:Covenanters' See also:general, had some prisoners confined in the tolbooth of Selkirk and afterwards massacred in the See also:market-See also:place. From an early See also:period the souters (shoemakers) were a flourishing See also:craft, and in the rebellions of 1715 and 1946 were required to furnish the See also:Jacobites with several thousand pairs of shoes. Though shoemaking is See also:extinct, " the souters of Selkirk" is still a See also:nickname for the inhabitants. Tradition of the See also:ancient craft yet survives also in connexion with the enrolment of burgesses, when the See also:burgess elect has to go through the ceremony of " licking the birse " (i.e. bristles). When the loving-See also:cup reaches the See also:candidate he dips in the See also:wine a See also:brush of bristles like that used by shoemakers and passes it through his lips.
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