The Diary and General Expenditure Book of William Cunningham of Craigends, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from The Diary and General Expenditure Book of William Cunningham of Craigends, Vol. 2: Kept Chiefly From 1673 to 1680 He was comparatively a young man when his son on 22d April 1673 brought home to Craigends as his wife Anne, daughter of Lord Ruthven, and widow of Sir William Cuningham of Cuninghamhead, in the parish of Dreghom. As was often the case in those times, when commodious houses were few and farm rents were small, the father and mother, with their daughters and their son and daughter-in-law, lived together in the family mansion, - an old roomy building that stood until recently, with its thick walls, in which were secret recesses for concealment in troublous times. At Craigends the joint household kept a common table, the young couple paying their parents for board, in terms of agreements which are fully set forth in the manuscript. By her previous marriage to Sir William Cuningham, the wife of the younger laird of Craigends had a son, William, who on his father´s death in 1671 became proprietor of Cuninghamhead. This son the mother appears to have boarded at Irvine, bringing him occasionally to Craigends; and her husband acted as a trustee for the youth, who seems afterwards to have given a good deal of trouble by questioning his stepfather´s management of the estates. This youth is referred to in the Diary as Cuninghamhead. Lord Ruthven, the father of Mrs. William Cuningham, died in 1673, the year of his daughter´s second marriage, and the Lady Ruthven, whose name and seat of Freeland in Perthshire are often mentioned, was his widow and her mother. This close relationship explains the frequent ´voyages´ of the Cuninghams to Freeland as well as the partnership in chambers and joint expenditure during several visits to Edinburgh of Lady Ruthven and the Cuninghams. Lady Ruthven was Isabel, third daughter of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in the county of Kinross. Visits to Burleigh as well as to Freeland are noted in the Diary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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