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... Ferintosh whisky . Their drinking cup was a two - handled wooden cog ( meadar cluasach ) , which was charged and sent round and round again and again until , as Donull Gobha avows in the following couplets , their vision was so much ...
... Ferintosh whisky . Their drinking cup was a two - handled wooden cog ( meadar cluasach ) , which was charged and sent round and round again and again until , as Donull Gobha avows in the following couplets , their vision was so much ...
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... Ferintosh , and there is no reason to doubt that Ferintosh was the seat of a distillery before the levying of the Excise duty in 1660. The yearly Excise of the lands of Ferintosh was farmed to Forbes of Culloden in 1690 , for 400 merks ...
... Ferintosh , and there is no reason to doubt that Ferintosh was the seat of a distillery before the levying of the Excise duty in 1660. The yearly Excise of the lands of Ferintosh was farmed to Forbes of Culloden in 1690 , for 400 merks ...
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... Ferintosh under a certain lease allowed by several Acts of Parliament of Scotland , which exemption has been found detrimental to the Revenue and prejudicial to the dis- tillery in other parts of Scotland , enacted That the Treasury ...
... Ferintosh under a certain lease allowed by several Acts of Parliament of Scotland , which exemption has been found detrimental to the Revenue and prejudicial to the dis- tillery in other parts of Scotland , enacted That the Treasury ...
Página 269
... Ferintosh , " at least he has a notice in his window to that effect . This alone is sufficient to show how highly prized Ferintosh whisky must have been , and we have further proof in Uilleam Ross ' " Moladh an Uisge - Bheatha " ( 1762 ...
... Ferintosh , " at least he has a notice in his window to that effect . This alone is sufficient to show how highly prized Ferintosh whisky must have been , and we have further proof in Uilleam Ross ' " Moladh an Uisge - Bheatha " ( 1762 ...
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... Ferintosh exemption must have exercised an evil influence among the people . They must have looked upon illicit distillation as a very venial offence when Government would grant permission to manufacture whisky practically duty free ...
... Ferintosh exemption must have exercised an evil influence among the people . They must have looked upon illicit distillation as a very venial offence when Government would grant permission to manufacture whisky practically duty free ...
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