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Extraordinary wages for weavers and university honors
The Blackburn Mail notes weavers earning 455. tosos weekly and youths earning a guinea weekly in the room. It also reports University of Glasgow conferring Doctor of Medicine on Peter M'Dangal and others, plus Edinburgh and Aberdeen university appointments, church minister moves, a Beaumonte fire destruction, and various public notices including postal rates from 1691 to 1696 and a public day of thanksgiving.
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Blackburn Mail
University of Glasgow
Peter M‘dangal
Samuel Cox
England
George Urimule
Ireland
Archibald Campbell
Succoth
William Meek
Torphichen
Senatus Aeademiens
University of Edinburgh
Walon
Falkirk
Tard Prova
John Thomson
Greymars
Kew North
Wiliam Gloag
Alexander Branton
Bolton
Greyfriars Church
Hamton
Marischal Street
Aberdeen
Duke of
Argye
Archibald Fairbairn
Pennycuick