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Lieutenancy -
Introduction
Permanent
lieutenancies were established in 1794 by a royal
warrant which ordered the development of volunteer
forces for the defence of Scotland. They were
county based and led by a lord lieutenant who
was appointed by the monarch. The lord lieutenant
in turn appointed deputies. The duties of lieutenants
included provision for the protection of their
counties in the event of invasion, threat or civil
uprising. They directed volunteer forces and,
after the 1797 Militia Act (37 Geo. III, c.103),
were empowered to raise militia forces.
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After
1802 only a landholder who held or was heir
to property worth £400 Scots was eligible
to serve in the lieutenancy. The lord lieutenant
was ex officio a member of the police committee
and the local authority under the Contagious
Diseases (Animals) Acts but the Local Government
(Scotland) Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict., c.50)
abolished these functions. The role of lieutenancies
gradually became largely ceremonial, but they
continued to recommend justices of the peace
with the help of an advisory committee.
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This
volume from Scottish Borders Archive & Local History
Centre, includes a list of men, organised by parish,
who were ballotted to serve in the militia between
1797-1802 in Roxburghshire. After the 1797 Militia
Act, lieutenants were empowered to raise militia forces
in their own county. This move was a source of great
dissatisfaction and in Ann E Whetstone's book Scottish
County Government in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries (Edinburgh 1981) it states, "Wholesale
rioting in the Lowlands greeted the initial attempts
to enroll men in the militia lists in August and September
1797...The men chosen to draw up the lists were regularly
threatened, and their lists destroyed. Deputy Lieutenants
were often surrounded by armed men and forced to sign
oaths that they would not assist in carrying out the
act".
Page
4 of this volume reinforces this. In the minutes
of a general meeting held in Jedburgh on 6 September
1797, it states, "His Grace the Lord Lieutenant
stated to the meeting that in many parishes in the
county a number of people probaby imposed upon by
false Representations, had assembled in a violent
and seditious manner and by Force or Threats got possession
of the lists made up by the Schoolmaster, in consequence
of the orders issued to them by the General Meeting...It
therefore becomes necessary for this meeting to form
immediat resolutions in order to carry the Act in
effectual Execution as Speedily as possible".
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Contents
There are 269 pages in total
in this volume which is arranged by year and then,
in most cases, by parish. It combines minutes from
meetings of the County of Roxburgh Lord and Deputy
Lieutenants with lists of men balloted from individual
parishes. The following key allows you to select the
list for a specific parish and year. Please note that
this is not comprehensive as you will find miscellaneous
list of absentees and proposed substitutes for men
included in the original lists and also in the minutes.
For a comprehensive look at the volume, you are advised
to start with page
1 and then page through the whole volume. Please
note that these images are large (between 150k and
220k) and could take some considerable time to download
depending on the speed of your Internet connection.
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1798 (1)
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1798
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1799
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1799 (2)
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1801
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Ancrum
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Ashkirk
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Bedrule
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Bowden
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Castleton
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Cavers
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Crailing
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Eckford
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Ednam
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Hawick
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Hobkirk
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Hownam
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Jedburgh
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Kelso
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Kirkton
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Lassudden
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Lilliesleaf
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Linton
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Makerstoun
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Maxton
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Melrose
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Minto
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Morebattle
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Oxnam
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Roxburgh
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Smailholm
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Southdean
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Sprouston
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Stichill
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Wilton
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Yetholm
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