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Poser 343

This week we would like you to tell us the background to the document this piece of text came from.

Extract from a register (National Records of Scotland, RS53/2 page 151).

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This week's questions: Can you identify:
1. What sort of volume this is from? (bonus points if you can tell what the volume records)
2. Which part of Scotland the book is recording?
3. What the covering dates for the volume are?
4. Who is mentioned?
5. What is the occupation of the person mentioned?

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Letter scharfes s
Dates
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