Brechin
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 29 objects about the town of Brechin, in Angus, Scotland which reflect the Scottish History collection’s focus on Scottish government. The collection mostly represents Brechin’s religious history and its part in government. It includes copies of seals and communion tokens representing the Church of Scotland. There are also trade tokens and a print of Poet’s Lane and a set of eighteenth century apothecary scales associated with Lord Provost Gutherie (sic) or Guthrie, c.1780 ( David Guthrie (I), was Lord Provost of Brechin 1815-1820), and a banker and businessman. The earliest seal impression dates to 1320 for David de Brechin, a Scottish knight, who died in this year. Later seals represent the burgh itself and its 17th and 18th century Bishops; some of whom supported Episcopacy and Jacobitism ( Syderf, Strachan and Haliburton) . The communion tokens represent Brechin’s churches and Ministers dating from the late 17th to 19th centuries. The trade tokens indicate Brechin’s industries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and wider national economic and banking history.
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