The ‘Pernicious’ Society of Wheepmen

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…about the ‘Pernicious Society of Dunfermline Wheepmen?’

In this article Jean Barclay find in the records of Dunfermline Burgh Council the story of a very early industrial dispute between the farm servants of the town and the weavers and of how the Council attempted to discover the causes of a riot in May 1735.