Perth Weavers bearing Arms in 1715

The following list is found within the Weavers Incorporation of Perth minute books, and is part of a survey of the Calling's membership in preparation for conflict in the first Jacobite rebellion. The full records containa description of the weapons owned by each weaver, as well as their servants, and will be released by Scotland's Greatest Story in the second volume of Records of the Weavers of Perth in early 2009.

List of arms belonging to the brethren of the Weaver Calling & of the fencible men & servants therein

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Weaver_Surname, Weaver_Forename, Sons and servants, Guns, Swords, Notes

ADAM, George

ALEXANDER, William

ALLAN, James, a servant

ANDERSON, James

ARCHBALD, James

ARCHIBALD, Deacon

BOIG, Alexander

BUCHANAN, William

CAMPSIE, John

CAMPSIE, George

CARMICHAEL, John

CAW, Thomas

COLT, Francis

CROOKSHANK, Patrick

DRUMMOND, Patrick

DRUMMOND, William

EASON, Peter

FERRIER, John

GAIRNS, Patrick

GARVOCK, George

GIBSON, John

GIBSON, Thomas

GORRIE, John, a servant

GORRIE, Thomas

GUILD, Robert

HOOD, Thomas

HUTSON, John, dead

HUTSON, George, dead

HUTSON, Robert

LEANIE, Thomas

LOW, Walter

LYDIE, Alexander

MALCOM, Thomas

MARSHALL, Adam

MARTIN, Deacon

MARTIN, William

MARTIN, Andrew

MARTIN, Henry

MARTINE, John

McLAREN, John

McNAB, John

MILLER, James

MILLER, Thomas

MILLER, John

MURRAY, John

NEILSON, James

PRAIN, Walter

REOCH, Laurence

ROBERTSON, John

ROBERTSON, Thomas

ROBERTSON, John

SANGSTER, James

SCOT, James, a servant

SMYTH, Patrick, his son and a servant

SMYTH, James

STRACHAN, Alexander, a son

VALLIANCE, Deacon

VALLIANCE, David

VALLIANCE, William

WADDELL, David

WILSON, Alexander

WRIGHT, John

 

Weapons belonging to the trade 3 guns, 8 swords

 

Number of men available 100; also 8 guns and 16 swords