Mauchline

[James Smith, as this letter intimates, had moved from Mauchline to try to mend his fortunes at Avon Printfield, near Linlithgow.] _Mauchline, April 28, 1788.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

During the summer of 1784, he came to know a group of girls known collectively as The Belles of Mauchline, one of whom was Jean Armour, the daughter of a stonemason from Mauchline.

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Although regularly meeting in Tarbolton, the “Burns Lodge” also removed itself to hold meetings in Mauchline.

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Robert and Gilbert made an ineffectual struggle to keep on the farm, but after its failure they moved to the farm at Mossgiel, near Mauchline in March, which they maintained with an uphill fight for the next four years.

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Thomas Young thereafter suffered at Mauchline, but was not challenged for this; Robert Muir was banished; James Wilson outlived the persecution; Williarn Caigow died in the Canongate

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Boxmakers of Mauchline, with large Scotch Thistle, carried shoulder-high by Four men, and Banner, inscribed,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

In the central part of the field there is an oval-shaped area of red sandstones now grouped with the Trias, extending from near Tarbolton to Mauchline, where they are largely worked for building stone.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Newcastle, returning by Dumfries to Mauchline, and another a grand tour through the East Highlands, as far as Inverness, returning by Edinburgh, and so home to Ayrshire.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

-- (Ayr, Nos. 449 and 679.) [345] Kinyeancleuch is in the parish of Mauchline.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Finlayson, a brawny Scot, born in the parish of Mauchline, who was known from "Glentuck to the Rutton-Ley" as the best man for "putting the stone," or for a "hop, step, and leap," contrived the self-cleaning ploughs (with circular beam) and harrows which bore his name.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various