Excerpt from Records of the County of Banff: 1660-1760, One Hundred Years of County Government From 1668 onwards, the Minute Book gives details of the procedure, when the Barons and Freeholders elected two Commissioners to represent the County in the Scots Parlia ment. Unlike their successors at the present day, these Commissioners gave their services gratuitously (p. And the expense of the journey from the north to Edinburgh must have been, even to a rich man, considerable; while the discomforts incident to such a journey are emphasised by the fact that travelling in a farm cart, with a feather bed laid in it, for two stages, was considered luxurious (p. It may be as well to state that the word Baron is a Scots term applied to a freeholder whose lands had been erected into a free barony, within which the baron or owner exercised civil and criminal jurisdiction. Those who absented themselves from the Head Courts were fined for non-attend ance (p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.