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Number picked up by remote Scottish town
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forfar
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Forfar was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates . After the Acts of Union 1707 , Forfar, Cupar , Dundee , Perth and St Andrews formed the Perth district of burghs (sometimes called Forfar ...
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The recruiting area comprised the counties of Fife, Forfar, Kinross, and Clackmannan, and there was also a troop in Stirlingshire within a few miles of Loch Lomond.
Montrose took his little boy with him on a riding tour of visits to his estates in Forfar, Perthshire, Dunbarton, and the Lothians, stopping in the houses of his many friends on the way.
At each place a souvenir program listed the events of the evening and the bill of fare: haggis, tat ties and nee ps Forfar bridies, Pitlochry salad, tea, shortbread, and a "wee dram" for toasting.
Five Forfar witches, of which one was Helen Guthrie, in 1661 dug up the body of an unbaptized infant, which was buried in the churchyard near the south-east door of the church and took severall peices thereof, as the feet, hands, pairt of the head, and a pairt of the buttocks, and they made a py thereof, that they might eat of it, that by this means they might never make a confession (as they thought) of their witchcraft.