An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 people, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, were tried for witchcraft in this period; a much higher rate than for neighbouring England.
Joe Strummer was born John Mellor in 1952, the mostly Scottish, part Armenian, part Jewish son of a self-made diplomat of socialist leanings.
He lived mostly with his father on the Scottish island of Jura, which can't have done wonders for the t.b. that killed Orwell, when Richard was six.
A handful of (mostly Liberal Democrat) constituencies in the Scottish Highlands would be exempted.In order to have new boundaries ready for the next general election, the government would scrap the formal public inquiries that have dragged out previous boundary reviews for years.
The oil fields lie mostly in Scottish waters, but the British government holds their ownership and receives the revenue yield.
So the lack of self-care in far too much of the Scottish population - mostly in Glasgow, but clearly throughout the rest of the country as well - has to be tied to the continuing growth of a much bigger "post-materialist" narrative, becoming generic throughout the developed world, about the purposefulness of life in general.
Young Margaret's holidays at Bryn, the Georgian farmhouse which served as a B&B for lorry drivers and tourists thundering through Lincolnshire on their way to the Scottish border, were mostly spent assembling reproductions of rose-clad cottages and the birds of Britain.
Arbroath today is mostly known for its connection with the Scottish fishing industry.
As Ian Bradley, a professor of history, has argued in The Times, Columba actually spent half his life in Scotland, after leaving his native Ireland around 563 to found a monastery on the Scottish island, where he mostly stayed till he died in 597.
The Scottish admissions process is straightforward, mostly a matter of meeting numeric benchmarks.
