 | John Hill Burton - Scotland - 1873 - 446 pages
...and also in his ' History of his own Times, ' where he offers this etymological explanation of it : " The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them throughout the year, and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...contemporary with the introduction of these terms, gives the following account of the former: — " The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them through the year; and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the... | |
 | Harry Alfred Long - Names - 1877 - 266 pages
...waggoner=HARMOOIUS : charioteer, driver of yoked horses. WAYMAN, for wain ruau=WHIGMORE (archdeacon of Ely, 1660). " From a word whiggam used in driving their horses, all that drove were called whiggamors, and shorter whigs." Whig is allied to wick for quick : living, active ; from which WICKS... | |
 | Harry Alfred Long - Names, Personal - 1883 - 378 pages
...: charioteer, drove yoked horses = HIPPIAS. But WAYMAN : wain man, so WENMAN, WHIGMORE (Ely, 1660). "From a word, whiggam, used in driving their horses; all that drove were called whiggamors, and shorter, whigs." Whig, con. wide, for quick, living, active. QUICK (Rev. RH), WICKS,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1885 - 426 pages
...was likely to know the facts well, makes the following 276 Domestic Annals of Scotland. statement: 'The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn...buy at Leith the stores that come from the north. From a word Whiggan, used in driving their horses, all that drove were called the Whiggamores, and,... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - Generals - 1887 - 260 pages
...familiar, and still a part of our political vocabulary.1 Its immediate result was to throw the 1 " The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn...driving their horses, all that drove were called the ' whiggamores,' and shorter, the 'whiggs.' Now in that year, after the news came down of Duke Hamilton's... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...different explanation of the origin of H''/tig. " The south-west counties of Scotland, "says Burnct, "have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year,...the northern parts producing more than they need, tbose in the w-est come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north; and from... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...opposition to the state, little inferior to what was pretended or put in practice by the church of Rome. The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn...the northern parts producing more than they need, these of the west usually came in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north :... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1900 - 760 pages
...different explanation of the origin of Whig. *' The south- west counties of Scotland," says Burnct, "have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year,...stores that come from the north ; and from a word, tuhiggam, used in driving their horses, all that drove were called the w/tiggamors, and, shorter, the... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 880 pages
...enthusiasts "whigamores," and Burnet, who was then five years old, offers the following explanation : "The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them throughout the year, and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in... | |
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The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year : and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north ; and, from a word,... 
