1. Daniel Green, ed., Cobbett’s Tour in Scotland (Aberdeen, 1984 edn), pp. 14–15, 17, 27.
2. NRA (S) 859, Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home Papers; HPL, 631/1, John Burrell Journals, 1763–1808; NRS, GD 224/590/1, Buccleuch Muniments, Report concerning the improvements proposed to be made upon the Duke of Buccleuch’s Estate in the County of Selkirk, William Keir, September 1802.
3. NRA (S) 859, Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home Papers, Report of Robert Ainslie, 7 September, 1769. All subsequent references to Ainslie’s plan come from this Report.
4. Malcolm Gray, ‘Scottish Emigration: The Social Impact of Agrarian Change in the Rural Lowlands, 1775–1875’, Perspectives of American History, VII (1974), p. 135.
5. OSA (Lanarkshire), p. 498.
6. HPL, 631/1, John Burrell’s Journals, 8 July 1777 (1771?).
7. OSA (Lanarkshire), p. 422.
8. Ibid. (Ayrshire), p. 212.
9. HPL 631/1, Journals of John Burrell, Copy Letter, Burrell to Mr. Barron Mure, 8 January 1774.
10. Ibid., entries for 17 and 27 July 1774.
11. NRA(S) 855, Earl of Strathmore Papers, 160/3, W. Gammack to A. Burnett, 15 June 1754.
12. W. Fullarton, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr, Edinburgh, 1793), pp. 69–70.
13. HPL 631/1, John Burrell’s Journals, 18 and 28 April 1772.
14. Ibid., 20 May 1772.
15. There are numerous examples of this in court processes; see, for instance, NRS SC38/22/6, SC38/22/20, SC38/22/14.
16. NLS, Session Papers, Douglas Collection, vol. 9, Answers for his Grace Alexander, Duke of Gordon … (1770).
17. Ibid., Douglas Collection, vol. 1, Thos. Baillie of Polkemmet vs. Wm. Wardrope (1759); Douglas Collection, vol. 4, Petition of John and Donald Fraser (1762); Douglas Collection, vol. 1, Petition of Marquis of Tweedale and Tutors (1760); Hermand Collection, vol. 1, Petition of John Crediton (1767); Hermand Collection, vol. 1, Petition of Janet Fulton (1770). These are but a sample of the much larger number of such cases.
18. The data which follow are derived from OSA parish reports.
19. James Black, ‘Report on Cottage Accommodation in the District of Buchan, Aberdeenshire’, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society, 5 (1851–3), p. 93.
20. Malcolm Gray, Scots on the Move: Scots Migrants 1750–1914 (Dundee, 1990), p. 15.