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Definition of Tolbooths
1. tolbooth [n] - See also: tolbooth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolbooths
Literary usage of Tolbooths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the by Robert Wodrow (1836)
"The lords of his majesty's privy council having resolved, that all persons now
in prison for crimes against the government, in the tolbooths of Edinburgh ..."
2. The Ladies of the Covenant: Memoirs of Distinguished Scottish Female by James Anderson (1853)
"... after which they were sent to the several places on the tolbooths of which
they were to be fixed, according to the sentence, and there, it would seem, ..."
3. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1878)
"In regard to the emoluments of jailers under the old system, it is right to
mention that the keepers of the tolbooths were allowed to exact from prisoners ..."
4. The Ladies of the Covenant: Memoirs of Distinguished Scottish Female by James Anderson (1880)
"... after which they were sent to the several places on the tolbooths of which
they were to be fixed, according to the sentence, and there, it would seem, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
"... evader of the tolbooths ; having been assured by several of our legal friends,
who knew him well, that he was a person of considerable accomplishment ..."
6. The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century by Henry Grey Graham (1899)
"... of victual that our collections are very far from maintaining our poor, and
the people are in a great pet with collections for bridges, tolbooths, etc., ..."
7. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1817)
"... grants warrant to officers of court, and George Williamson, messenger at arms,
to apprehend, and incarcerate, hun in the tolbooths of Edinburgh, ..."
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