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Contents:
The lanes, courts, steps, walks and trances of Lerwick;
Disorder in Lerwick i and ii;
The Lerwick Total Abstinence Society;
The piers and lodberrys of Old Lerwick;
Local whaling companies;
Mansie Moad;
The old cemetery;
The wells of Lerwick;
The petition of Robert Forbes;
80, 82 and 82a Commercial Street, Lerwick;
Insanitation in Lerwick;
The funerals of James Williamson;
Some notes on a communion roll of Lerwick parish church;
Minutes of Lerwick local destitution committee;
The Lerwick self-supporting dispensary;
Jock Murray's cow;
The petition of James Greig against George Laurenson, horse hirer, Clickamin.

• Johnson & Greig
• The Shetland Times

Contents:

Minutes of the Lerwick Subscription School;

The petition of the Lerwick Temperance Society;

The Pioneers of the temperance movement in Lerwick;

The Total Abstinence Society's soiree 1842;

John Smollet;

Some stray references to Shetland 1796-1798;

Representation by John Bruce, collector of customs at Lerwick;

'The drunken riotous sailors from the whale-vessels';

Sebastopol falls - and after;

The Murray and Caithness packet

Contents: Introductions: The business of an old kirk session, Shetland education in the eighteenth century; Kirk session records of Walls and Sandness [concerning education]; Report by Dr Kemp concerning Shetland education, 1799

Contents:
Walls kirk session minutes;
Fasts, food and famines;
The lepers in Papa Stour;
The Papa Stour bell;
The session's acts and regulations;
Foreign coinage in the session's money;
Notification of a change of name;
An eighteenth century communion;
Lamb worrying by swine;
The sabbath breakers;
Charity to prisoners of war;
The first communion in Foula;
The Frau Rebecah Elisabeth;
The mortcloth

Contents:
Memorial and queries for counsel for the principal inhabitants of Lerwick and its neighbourhood, with opinion of counsel thereon, 1829;
Minutes of the Scalloway Road Subscription Committee, 1840-1847;
William Jameson, sheep thief and dempster of court, 1791;
The mussel scaap in Bressay Sound, 1813;
Some notes on Shetlanders in the army, 1798-1806;
The Uyea whale case, 1834;
Remonstrance by Thomas Gifford of Busta to and agreement with the inhabitants and fishers of Northmavine, 1726;
The codling hole, 1841;
Some stray notes on ranselmen, 1831-1842;
Scheme of the probation in the prepared state of the sale, Andrew Ross, esq., against Charles Dick of Frackafield and his creditors, 1744;
The petition of Mrs Janet Sinclair of Brew, Dunrossness